by Steve Szymanski, Chris Koschnitzky | Jan 24, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Detention, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
Afghanistan 2021: Reflections from the Stockton Center for International Law’s Workshop Despite over twenty years of legal analysis, many issues regarding the Afghanistan conflict remain unsettled. At a recent Stockton Center for International Law law of armed...
by Michael N. Schmitt | Jan 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, History of LOAC, Interpretation & Development, LOAC History
Embracing LOAC Pluralism Although the prospect of war remains, the end of two decades of active hostilities affords the United States and its partners the breathing room to rethink their approaches to developing and interpreting the law of armed conflict (LOAC). In...
by Lieber Institute | Jan 6, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Uncategorized
Year Ahead – 2022 In our look back at 2021, affiliates of the Lieber Institute discussed some of the law of armed conflict issues that made an impact in the past year. In the present post, Professors Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Chris Jenks, Laurie Blank,...
by Lieber Institute | Dec 30, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, LOAC History, Uncategorized
Year in Review – 2021 The approach of a new year provides an opportunity to reflect on the past year and to anticipate what the future may hold in the next. In keeping with the tradition of year-in-review surveys, we asked affiliates of the Lieber Institute what...
by Ted Richard | Oct 11, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Hays Parks Symposium, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Targeting
Hays Parks and U.S. Views on Targeting Law Three decades after its publication, Colonel W. Hays Parks’s article Air War and the Law of War remains a key resource for attorneys who advise on targeting operations. The article is noteworthy for its deep exploration of...
by Sean Watts, Winston Williams, Ronald Alcala | Oct 6, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Hays Parks Symposium, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Weapons Law
Symposium Intro: Hays Parks’s Influence on the Law of War Most developments and codifications of the law of war have been responses to the evolving character of warfare. Indeed, a timeline of law of war treaties reads like a chronicle of changes in the tactics,...