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Angeline Lewis
| Jul 30, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium, LOAC History, Other Bodies of Law
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...
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Pavle Kilibarda
| Jul 24, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
The ICC’s Al Hassan Case: A Rejection of the Bilateral Approach to Conflict Classification? On June 26, 2024, Trial Chamber X of the International Criminal Court (ICC) finally delivered its judgment in the Al Hassan case. The defendant, Mr. Al Hassan Ag Abdoul...
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Christiane Wilke,
Helyeh Doutaghi
| Oct 27, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, LOAC History, Targeting
Conceptualizing Civilians: Beyond “Innocence” This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Hague Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare, a significant attempt to conceptualize the regulation of the then-novel technologies of aerial bombing. While technologies of aerial warfare...
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Nobuo Hayashi
| Oct 24, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
Honest Errors, the Rendulic Rule, and Modern Combat Decision-Making In 1948, in a judgment commonly known as the Hostage case, a U.S. military tribunal at Nuremberg acquitted Lothar Rendulic, commander of the German 20th Mountain Army, of offences related to the...
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Richard Salomon
| Sep 20, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
2023 DoD Manual Revision – What’s Chivalry Got to Do with It? Regrettably, the recent update of the U.S. Department of Defense Law of War Manual continues to associate chivalry with the law of armed conflict. No change has been made in Section 2.6 of the Manual or the...
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Robert Kolb
| Sep 1, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
Treaties in Armed Conflict: The Sharp Split Between “General” and “Particular” Treaties The recent completion and publication of the second edition of my text, The Law of Treaties, provides an opportunity to reflect on how treaty law applies to specific subject areas...
