by Michael N. Schmitt | Aug 2, 2023
2023 DoD Manual Revision – Handling Uncertainty in the Law of Attack (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) A Civilian Status Presumption The recent revisions to the DoD Law of...
by Hitoshi Nasu, Sean Watts | Aug 1, 2023
2023 DoD Manual Revision – The Civilian Presumption Misnomer (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) The changes made to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Law of War Manual...
by Todd F. Buchwald | Mar 29, 2023
U.S. Support to the ICC (in AI-Generated Iambic Pentameter) I never imagined I would submit for publication a poem from Chat-GPT about U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court (ICC). But that is what I am doing today. The background is as follows. Each day,...
by Michael N. Schmitt | Jun 27, 2022
Déjà Vu: International Landmine Law and the New U.S. Landmine Policy Following a “comprehensive policy review,” the Biden Administration announced significant changes to U.S. Anti-Personnel Landmine (APL) policy on June 21, 2022. The new policy reverses most aspects...
by Ashley Deeks | Aug 5, 2020
Will Autonomy in U.S. Military Operations Centralize Legal Decision-making? The growth of machine learning tools in military operations raises new questions about where the most critical decision points are located. Are the most important political,...
