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Jennifer Maddocks
| Jun 16, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
Contracts Between the Wagner Group and Russia’s Defense Ministry: International Law Implications After months of infighting between Russian defense officials and the Wagner Group, the Deputy Defense Minister, Nikolai Pankov, announced on June 10, 2023, that “volunteer...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| May 15, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Detention, Large-Scale Combat Operations Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility
Large-Scale Combat Operations Symposium – Detention in Non-International Armed Conflict Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed during an expert workshop that the Lieber Institute co-convened alongside Harvard Law School’s Program on...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Apr 19, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, State Responsibility
Reflections on the DoD General Counsel’s Cyber Law Address On Tuesday, the General Counsel of the Department of Defense, the Honorable Caroline Krass, addressed the annual United States Cyber Command Legal Conference. Her speech followed in the footsteps of Hon....
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Lindsay Freeman
| Apr 14, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Accountability for Cyber War Crimes In our digitally connected and technology-dependent world, cyber-attacks on critical infrastructure such as electric power grids, water treatment facilities, and industrial control systems have far-reaching...
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Steven van de Put
| Apr 10, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility
The Dutch Chora Judgment: Ex-Gratia Payments and Compensation Recently, a Dutch district court in The Hague delivered its judgment concerning claims arising from a 2007 battle in Chora, Afghanistan. Whereas an earlier post by Marten Zwanenburg reviewed the judgment...
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 4, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, State Responsibility
ICJ Ruling on Iran’s Proxy War: The United States Must Pay On March 30, the International Court of Justice issued a ruling on financial measures that the United States had adopted against Iranian assets. The case was brought by Iran, seeking to challenge the legality...
