by Bailey R. Ulbricht, Allen S. Weiner | Apr 15, 2021
Humanitarian Notification Systems & Intentional Attacks Against Hospitals Editor’s note: The following post is part of the Articles of War Symposium on Beth Van Schaack’s book, Imagining Justice for Syria. The symposium offers a platform for the contributing...
by John Cherry, Michael Rizzotti | Mar 9, 2021
Understanding Self-Defense and the Law of Armed Conflict Many soldiers, commanders, and judge advocates involved in the conflicts in Africa, Syria, Iraq, and Afghanistan deploy with a dated and incomplete understanding of individual self-defense. This reality is the...
by Shane Reeves, Sean Watts | Nov 24, 2020
Military Considerations and the Ntaganda “Attack” Question This post concludes our series featuring the International Criminal Court’s recent hearings on the legal notion of “attack.” As co-editors-in-chief, we wish to extend our sincere gratitude...
by Agnieszka Jachec-Neale | Nov 19, 2020
The Unintended Consequences of International Court Decisions In response to a prosecution appeal in the case of The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is currently considering the meaning of “attack” under the Rome Statute. The...
by Eian Katz, Milena Sterio, Jonathan Worboys | Nov 17, 2020
“Attacks” against Hospitals and Cultural Property: Broad in Time, Broad in Substance On behalf of the Public International Law and Policy Group (PILPG), we recently filed an amicus curiae brief with the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the appellate case...
by Dick Jackson | Nov 11, 2020
Motive and Control in Defining Attacks In the appellate case of The Prosecutor v. Bosco Ntaganda, the Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court asked for briefs from “qualified publicists with the requisite expertise, who are interested in submitting...
