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Kenneth Wyne Mutuma
| Mar 31, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium, LOAC History
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – East African Laws of War Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s edited volumes Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction to the series, see Samuel White...
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Welmoet Wels
| Mar 28, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
Dead Bodies of War in Legal-Historical Context “We have come for the bodies of the slain, wishing to bury them in observance of the universal law ….” Euripides, The Suppliants, ca. 423 BCE[i] Since the early days of the war between Ukraine and Russia, there have been...
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Christopher M. Bailey
| Mar 17, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium, LOAC History
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s edited volumes Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| May 24, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Negotiating an End to the Fighting As the conflict in Ukraine grinds on with no end in sight, speculation over the possibility of negotiating an end to the fighting continues. Most discussion has centered on the terms of any such agreement....
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David Wallace
| Feb 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, LOAC History, Occupation
Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq A recent New York Times article discussed, in part, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising important, yet underexplored, questions about occupations under the law of armed conflict (LOAC). The...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Feb 2, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Targeting
Attacking Dams – Part II: The 1977 Additional Protocols A recent New York Times report of a 2017 attack by U.S. forces against the Tabqa Dam in Syria has sparked controversy and criticism. In Part I of this series, I described reports of that incident and...
