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Sean Watts,
Robert Lawless
| Mar 25, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The Law and Character of War in 2035 In fall of 2020, the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at West Point joined a U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) multi-year study on the changing character of warfare. The study has convened three times annually since. Its purpose...
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Robert Lawless
| Mar 21, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Are Mercenaries in Ukraine? Reports suggest both Russia and Ukraine are recruiting and supplementing forces in ways that potentially implicate international legal rules related to mercenaries. This post, after surveying media reports of mercenaries in Ukraine,...
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Jeffrey Kahn
| Mar 9, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Consistency and Change in Russian Approaches to International Law Recent Russian conduct on the world stage—and less metaphorically, on the territory of Ukraine—has been appalling. Violations of international law (such as acts of aggression and unlawful support for...
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Ori Pomson
| Feb 16, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The ICJ’s Armed Activities Reparations Judgment: A Brave New World? On February 9, 2022, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) rendered its judgment on reparations in the case concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo, between the Democratic...
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Emily Crawford
| Feb 3, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Non-Binding Norms in the Law of Armed Conflict In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration appointees criticized the Geneva Conventions as being, among other things, obsolete and out of date. Indeed, one of the consistent criticisms of...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, History of LOAC, Interpretation & Development, LOAC History
Embracing LOAC Pluralism Although the prospect of war remains, the end of two decades of active hostilities affords the United States and its partners the breathing room to rethink their approaches to developing and interpreting the law of armed conflict (LOAC). In...
