Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed

Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed

Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed In July 2024, Australia adopted a new legal scheme to compensate victims of war crimes committed by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Afghanistan, which...
Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims

Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims

Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reports that since February 2022, there have been 40,176 verified civilian casualties caused by the conflict in Ukraine: 12,340 killed and...
State Practice in Assassination: What is Old is New Again

State Practice in Assassination: What is Old is New Again

State Practice in Assassination: What is Old is New Again In July 2024, CNN reported that American and German intelligence agencies had thwarted a Russian plan to kill Armin Papperger, the chief executive of Rheinmetall, a company known as “the largest and most...
Beyond Compliance Symposium – A Rights-based Approach to Addressing Harm and Need in Armed Conflict?

Beyond Compliance Symposium – A Rights-based Approach to Addressing Harm and Need in Armed Conflict?

Beyond Compliance Symposium – A Rights-based Approach to Addressing Harm and Need in Armed Conflict? Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and Armed Groups and...
War as a Non-State-Centric Concept of Contemporary International Law

War as a Non-State-Centric Concept of Contemporary International Law

War as a Non-State-Centric Concept of Contemporary International Law Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “International Law’s Premature Farewell to the Concept of War” appearing in the Brazilian Journal of International Law. There...
Beyond Compliance Symposium – Compliance + Restraint Towards Full(er) Protection in War

Beyond Compliance Symposium – Compliance + Restraint Towards Full(er) Protection in War

Beyond Compliance Symposium – Compliance + Restraint Towards Full(er) Protection in War Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and Armed Groups and International...