LOAC and Legitimacy: When Combat Becomes a Supporting Effort to Information

LOAC and Legitimacy: When Combat Becomes a Supporting Effort to Information

LOAC and Legitimacy: When Combat Becomes a Supporting Effort to Information Over the past two decades information was mostly conceptualized as a supporting effort to combat: information contributed to tactical and operational success. Given today’s immediately...
Embracing LOAC Pluralism

Embracing LOAC Pluralism

Embracing LOAC Pluralism ​Although the prospect of war remains, the end of two decades of active hostilities affords the United States and its partners the breathing room to rethink their approaches to developing and interpreting the law of armed conflict (LOAC). In...
Legal Advisers in the Field during Armed Conflict

Legal Advisers in the Field during Armed Conflict

Legal Advisers in the Field during Armed Conflict [Editor’s Note: This post is based on Professor Dinstein’s recent article published in International Law Studies, vol. 97 (2021), pp. 917-936.]   Legal advisers are supposed to be attached to military commanders...
Improving Compliance with IHL: A Long-Term Enterprise

Improving Compliance with IHL: A Long-Term Enterprise

Improving Compliance with IHL: A Long-Term Enterprise It is difficult to talk about the mission and mandate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) without talking about international humanitarian law (IHL) and vice-versa. The two are...
Joint Symposium: Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance

Joint Symposium: Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance

Joint Symposium: Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance This is the first post in a joint symposium hosted by EJIL:Talk and Articles of War, the blog of the Lieber Institute at West Point. The symposium reflects a series of conversations held in...