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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published two longer works on the subjects of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions and besieged forces’ legal...
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Sean Watts
| Oct 4, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, United States v Najibullah Symposium
United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Introduction Almost as soon as hostilities between the United States and the Taliban and al Qaeda groups in Afghanistan began in 2001, important law of war questions emerged. In particular, early stages of the conflict provoked...
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Sven Peterke,
Johannes van Aggelen
| Sep 30, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
War as a Non-State-Centric Concept of Contemporary International Law Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “International Law’s Premature Farewell to the Concept of War” appearing in the Brazilian Journal of International Law. There...
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James A. Schoettler, Jr
| Sep 20, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The July 2023 Revision of the DoD Law of War Manual and Customary International Law Customary international law (CIL) is an important source of legally binding rules applicable in armed conflict. Where a party to a conflict has not ratified a key international...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Sep 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict As I noted in my “2024 Year Ahead” post, I am worried that the law of armed conflict (LOAC) faces an array of threats to its application on the battlefield and beyond. The post set out five that I find especially...
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Tamer Morris
| Sep 3, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory Twenty years after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the consequences of the Israeli Wall, the UN General Assembly asked the ICJ to issue another advisory opinion...