Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – South Sudanese Laws of War

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – South Sudanese Laws of War

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – South Sudanese Laws of War Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s third edited volume of Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction to the series,...
Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr

Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr

Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr On Wednesday morning, Israel killed the Chief of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. To do so, it reportedly...
Applying the Unwilling or Unable Test: Israel Strikes Houthi Targets in Yemen

Applying the Unwilling or Unable Test: Israel Strikes Houthi Targets in Yemen

Applying the Unwilling or Unable Test: Israel Strikes Houthi Targets in Yemen On July 18, 2024, Houthi rebels conducted a drone strike in Tel Aviv, killing one person and wounding at least ten others. The attack was carried out by an Iranian Samad-3 drone that had...
Russia’s Alleged Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon: International Law and Political Rhetoric

Russia’s Alleged Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon: International Law and Political Rhetoric

Russia’s Alleged Nuclear Anti-Satellite Weapon: International Law and Political Rhetoric The development and testing of anti-satellite weapons (ASATs), as well as debates concerning the legal and policy implications of ASAT testing and use, have existed since soon...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Rules and “Right” in Iban Laws of War

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Rules and “Right” in Iban Laws of War

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Rules and “Right” in Iban Laws of War Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s third edited volume of Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction to...
Space Privateers or Space Pirates? Armed Conflict, Outer Space, and the Attribution of Non-State Activities

Space Privateers or Space Pirates? Armed Conflict, Outer Space, and the Attribution of Non-State Activities

Space Privateers or Space Pirates? Armed Conflict, Outer Space, and the Attribution of Non-State Activities Famously, George Clemenceau, Prime Minister of France at the end of the First World War, quipped that “generals always prepare to fight the last war, especially...