National Security Memorandum 20 and the Challenge of Operational End-Use Monitoring

National Security Memorandum 20 and the Challenge of Operational End-Use Monitoring

National Security Memorandum 20 and the Challenge of Operational End-Use Monitoring Today, May 8, was the deadline for the Departments of Defense (DoD) and State to answer tough questions about how U.S. supplied weapons are being used in today’s conflicts, including...
The Department of Defense’s In Extremis Legal Challenges During Modern Warfare

The Department of Defense’s In Extremis Legal Challenges During Modern Warfare

The Department of Defense’s In Extremis Legal Challenges During Modern Warfare A Department of Defense (DoD) lawyer has for a client an organization with a remarkable number of dilemmas, all of which must be resolved (or at least addressed) lawfully, consistent with...
Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians, the Object and Purpose of Additional Protocol I, and the United Kingdom’s Reservation

Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians, the Object and Purpose of Additional Protocol I, and the United Kingdom’s Reservation

Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians, the Object and Purpose of Additional Protocol I, and the United Kingdom’s Reservation Editors’ note: This post considers one aspect of an article recently published by the author in The Military Law and the Law of War Review. It does...
State Submissions on the Legal Review of AWS and Possible Good Practices

State Submissions on the Legal Review of AWS and Possible Good Practices

State Submissions on the Legal Review of AWS and Possible Good Practices The review of weapons, means, and methods of warfare for compliance with international law has attracted significant attention during the international debate about the regulation and use of...
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Reflections on the Invocation of Common Article 1

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Reflections on the Invocation of Common Article 1

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Reflections on the Invocation of Common Article 1 The South Africa v. Israel case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning alleged violations of the Genocide Convention during the Israel-Hamas war has broader implications...
Regulating Military Force Series – A Future for the UN System of Collective Security?

Regulating Military Force Series – A Future for the UN System of Collective Security?

Regulating Military Force Series – A Future for the UN System of Collective Security? Editors’ note: This post is a condensed version of the author’s keynote address at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction,...