by Ori Pomson | Oct 13, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Russian Preliminary Objections at the ICJ: The Case Must Go On? As readers of Articles of War may recall, Ukraine instituted proceedings against Russia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on February 26, 2022, on the basis of the...
by Anne Peters, Jérôme de Hemptinne | Oct 11, 2022
A Plea for “Animalizing” the International Law of Armed Conflict Domestic, wild, or liminal, all animals are particularly vulnerable in wartime. They are often slaughtered, bombed, starved, or looted on a massive scale. When exercising war-related activities, animals...
by Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov | Sep 30, 2022
Deficiencies and Ambiguities of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons Touted as an effort to “reframe the debate on nuclear weapons,” the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) has currently accumulated 66 ratifications, a little over a year...
by Françoise Hampson | Jul 5, 2022
How Human Rights Law Bodies Handle Situations of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Law This is the second of two posts dealing with aspects of the relationship between the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and Human Rights Law (HRsL). HRsL bodies have long dealt with cases...
by Françoise Hampson | Jul 1, 2022
The Relationship Between the Law of Armed Conflict and International Human Rights Law This is the first of two posts on two specific aspects of the relationship between the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and international human rights law (HRsL). This post deals with...
by Michael N. Schmitt | Jun 27, 2022
Déjà Vu: International Landmine Law and the New U.S. Landmine Policy Following a “comprehensive policy review,” the Biden Administration announced significant changes to U.S. Anti-Personnel Landmine (APL) policy on June 21, 2022. The new policy reverses most aspects...
