“Strict” versus “Qualified” Neutrality

“Strict” versus “Qualified” Neutrality

“Strict” versus “Qualified” Neutrality The support neutral States are providing Russia and Ukraine has ignited a debate over neutrality. It is one of existential magnitude for Ukraine. Indeed, the survival of Kyiv in early 2022 can be attributed in significant part to...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare 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 introduction...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Dharma and Ancient Indian Military Laws in the Mahābhārata

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Dharma and Ancient Indian Military Laws in the Mahābhārata

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...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction

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),...
Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Parole: The Past, Present, and Future

Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Parole: The Past, Present, and Future

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...
Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Military Assimilation and the Third Geneva Convention

Lieber Studies POW Volume Symposium – Military Assimilation and the Third Geneva Convention

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...