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Michael N. Schmitt
| Nov 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, In Honor of Françoise Hampson, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation, State Responsibility
In Honor of Françoise Hampson – Parsing Proportionality Editors’ note: This post is part of a series to honor Françoise Hampson, who passed away on April 18, 2025. These posts recognize Professor Hampson’s work and the significant contribution her scholarship...
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Julia Emtseva
| Nov 19, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion, Occupation
The ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion – How Indispensable Is the UN After All? Editors’ note: This post is part of a series featuring analysis of the International Court of Justice advisory opinion on Obligations of Israel as an Occupying Power. The...
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Sean Watts
| Oct 29, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion, Interpretation & Development, Occupation
The ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion: A Quasi-Occupying Power? On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published an advisory opinion under the descriptive yet unwieldy title, Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
Julia Flores
| Jul 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
Protecting Inhabitants of Occupied Territory: Settler Violence in the West Bank On July 11, 2025, Israeli settlers allegedly beat Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, a Palestinian-American U.S. citizen and Florida native, to death during a confrontation near Al-Mazra’a...
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Alexander Orakhelashvili
| Jun 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
Statehood and the Law of Armed Conflict This post highlights an important aspect of my latest monograph, The Essence and Reality of States – Effectiveness, Recognition and Legitimacy. The monograph is mainly about the genealogy of notions that have long informed...
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Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller
| Jun 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
Protection of Cultural Property in Prolonged Military Occupation This year marks the eleventh anniversary of Russia’s occupation and illegal annexation of Crimea, a region internationally recognized as part of Ukraine. Against this backdrop and Russia’s 2022...
