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Hitoshi Nasu
| Oct 7, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, GC IV Commentary Series, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
GC IV Commentary Series – On Interpretive Methodology Editors’ note: The following series considers ICRC’s 2025 updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention. Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Liisi Adamson, and Sean Watts’s introduction to the series is...
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Dan E. Stigall
| Aug 10, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development
International Law, the Civil Law Tradition, and Sources of Law – Part II Editors’ note: This is the second in a two-part post illustrating the impact of the civil law tradition on the formation of international law including the law of war, specifically the sources of...
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Erika de Wet
| Jul 27, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Lieber Studies Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific Region Volume
Lieber Studies Indo-Pacific Volume – A Tale of Tenacity, Tensions, and Ambiguity: Mutual Defense Treaties and Defense Groupings in the Indo-Pacific Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Armed Conflict and International Law in the...
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Angeline Lewis
| Jul 17, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Lieber Studies Armed Conflict in the Indo-Pacific Region Volume
Lieber Studies Indo-Pacific Volume – Interpretative Choice and Risk in Indo-Pacific Air Domain Challenges Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Armed Conflict and International Law in the Indo-Pacific Region (Douglas Guilfoyle &...
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Christopher Waters,
Steve Tiwa Fomekong,
Catherine Gribbin
| Mar 25, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Putting the Canadian in IHL: The Canadian Handbook on International Humanitarian Law The International Committee of the Red Cross observes that “[t]he rules of war are universal.” Few would dispute that as a general statement, particularly considering the universal...
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Robert Kolb
| Mar 11, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The Role of Municipal Law Analogies in the Law of Armed Conflicts It is common wisdom that the law of armed conflict (LOAC) contains many “principles” or rules of considerable normative breadth and importance. Some examples include: the principle of limitation of...
