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Michael W. Meier
| Jul 31, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – A Welcome Change to the Presumption of Civilian Status (Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of posts that will analyze and assess the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) On 11 July, the...
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Caroline Krass
| Jul 31, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Department of Defense Issues Update to DoD Law of War Manual on Presumption of Civilian Status and Feasible Precautions to Verify Military Objectives Today, the Department of Defense (DoD) released an important update to its Law of War Manual, including a revision to...
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Ori Pomson
| Oct 13, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
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...
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Anne Peters,
Jérôme de Hemptinne
| Oct 11, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
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...
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Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov
| Sep 30, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Other Bodies of Law
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...
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Françoise Hampson
| Jul 5, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Human Rights, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
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...
