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Damian Copeland
| Mar 4, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, AWS Legal Review Series, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
AWS Legal Review Series – A Functional Approach This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean Watts provides an overview of the series. Autonomous weapon systems (AWS)...
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Erin Pobjie
| Mar 1, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Regulating Military Force Series, Space Law, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – The Meaning of Prohibited “Use of Force” in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force:...
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Ted Richard
| Feb 16, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Weapons Law
An Assessment of Russia’s Withdrawal from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty On November 2, 2023, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing the country’s ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This multilateral treaty prohibits...
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Ryan Dowdy
| Feb 13, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
Multi-Domain Operations: Closing the Eighteenth Capability Gap After emerging from decades of counterinsurgency (COIN) operations, the Army identified seventeen capability gaps in its conventional warfighting capacity. Certainly, the doctrine and policies associated...
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Dan Maurer
| Jan 5, 2024 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Policy
The U.S. DoD’s New Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Policy and “Harm Resulting From” Military Operations In a much-celebrated move in late December 2023, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) made good on its promise to publish an enterprise-wide policy on...
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Liisi Adamson
| Dec 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Policy, State Responsibility, Targeting
Year in Review – 2023 2023 has witnessed not only a continuation of ongoing conflicts, including those in Ukraine and Nagorno-Karabakh, but also the emergence of new hostilities. A notable addition to the global security landscape was the renewed armed conflict...
