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Sean Watts
| Dec 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part III: A Lesson from Military History? Parts I and II of this three-part post outlined the legal framework applicable to post-war repatriation of prisoners of war and highlighted two prominent fault lines...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 16, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part II: Involuntary Post-War Repatriation Part I of this three-part post outlined the law of war applicable to post-war repatriation of prisoners of war. It further recounted how questions concerning...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part I: The Legal Framework and Reciprocity Prisoner of war repatriations have long been thorny, contentious post-war affairs. Disputes over their timing, scope, and implementation have routinely threatened...
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Sean Watts
| Oct 29, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion, Interpretation & Development, Occupation
The ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion: A Quasi-Occupying Power? On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published an advisory opinion under the descriptive yet unwieldy title, Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and...
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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Oct 20, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
A Decisive Moment Concerning Individual Rights and the Law of War? The question of whether individuals can hold rights under international law has hovered at the edges of international jurisprudence for a century. From the Permanent Court of International Justice’s...
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Mark Lattimer
| Oct 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, In Honor of Françoise Hampson, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
In Honor of Françoise Hampson – Calibrating the Balance Between Military Necessity and Humanity in LOAC Practice Editors’ note: This post is part of a series to honor Françoise Hampson, who passed away on April 18, 2025. These posts recognize Professor Hampson’s...
