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Michael N. Schmitt
| Apr 18, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Israel-Hamas 2025 Symposium – Releasing Civilian Hostages and Returning Hostage Remains On 7 October 2023, Hamas fighters took 251 hostages during its infamous attack on Israel. Although many were Israel Defense Force (IDF) soldiers, the vast majority were civilians,...
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Samuel White
| Apr 16, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Emerging Technologies, Law of Armed Conflict
Interning a Hacker Recently, at a workshop at Harvard Law School, I grappled with the question of internment in any international armed conflict (IAC) in the near future. It is a question some are uncomfortable with, although the concept of internment remains legally...
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Robert Kolb
| Apr 14, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality
The So-Called Principle of Equal Treatment of Belligerents by the Neutral State Conventional legal wisdom says neutral States owe belligerents equality of treatment (see for example here, p. 282–84, here, p. 237, and here, p. 466). This is largely inaccurate, however....
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 7, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Judging Battlefield Conduct Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article-length work, “The Rule of Law in Armed Conflict” published in volume 34 of the Minnesota Journal of International Law (2025). The rule of law is an appraisal concept that purports to...
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Inna Zavorotko,
Oleksii Plotnikov
| Mar 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Ukraine’s New Voluntary Report on the Implementation of IHL In late 2024, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine (MoDU) joined a relatively small but growing family of States that has published voluntary reports on implementation of international...
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Sean Watts
| Mar 27, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Other Bodies of Law, Weapons Law
Assessing the Ottawa Anti-Personnel Mine Convention Withdrawals As security along their borders has deteriorated, Eastern European, Baltic, and Nordic States have scrambled to update and adapt their national defense strategies. Nearly all these States have publicly...
