by Zuzana Špicová | Mar 13, 2023
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Dharma and Ancient Indian Military Laws in the Mahābhārata Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s edited volumes Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general...
by Samuel White, Sean Watts | Mar 13, 2023
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction There is a mythology, easily rebuffed, that the laws of war started with the Lieber Code. While General Orders No. 100 guided and shaped the modern law of armed conflict (LOAC) or international humanitarian law (IHL),...
by Emily Crawford | Feb 27, 2023
Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Parole: The Past, Present, and Future Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter of the Lieber Studies volume Prisoners of War in Contemporary Conflict, which will be published 3 March 2023. For a general...
by Sean Watts | Feb 22, 2023
Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Military Assimilation and the Third Geneva Convention Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter of the Lieber Studies volume Prisoners of War in Contemporary Conflict, which will be published 3 March 2023. For a...
by Chris Koschnitzky, Michael N. Schmitt | Feb 22, 2023
Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Prisoners of War in Contemporary Conflict Following the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) launch of its updated Commentary on the 1949 Geneva Convention Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, West...
by Pnina Sharvit Baruch | Sep 20, 2022
The Israeli Unlawful Combatants Law Turns Twenty Twenty years ago, in 2002, Israel enacted the Law on Incarceration of Unlawful Combatants (UCL or “the Law”). The UCL aimed to provide a basis in domestic legislation, in conformity with international law, for...
