by Mehmet Çoban | Sep 16, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Targeting Leadership Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently spoke at length in Time magazine about assassination attempts against him. He indicated that Russian paratroopers had approached his location immediately after the invasion...
by Shane Reeves, Robert Lawless | Sep 12, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Data-Rich Battlefields and the Future LOAC Alongside the physical conflict in Ukraine, the parties are waging a ruthless data war. Russia continues to deploy its formidable “information war machine” to “confuse and disable”...
by Hitoshi Nasu, Winston Williams | Aug 19, 2022
Urban Siege Warfare: A Workshop Report [Editor’s note: The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the ICRC, PILAC, or other participants.] Siege is a well-established practice in warfare. It seeks to compel surrender,...
by Angeline Lewis | Aug 17, 2022
“Weaponizing” Sexual Violence In War – An IHL Problem As the war in Ukraine approaches the six-month mark, reports of sexual violence against women and girls, and also men and boys, mount almost daily. In an extraordinary step, trials of Russian soldiers accused of...
by Michael N. Schmitt, William Casey Biggerstaff | Aug 5, 2022
The al-Zawahiri Strike and the Law of Armed Conflict Just after daybreak on July 31, the United States killed Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s former deputy and the current leader of al-Qaeda. Two Hellfire missiles struck him on the balcony of his home in Kabul....
by Tara Brown | Aug 5, 2022
Can Starlink Satellites Be Lawfully Targeted? In an earlier post, I discussed the special attribution regime in Article VI of the Outer Space Treaty (OST) and the risk of activities of commercial actors drawing States into existing armed conflicts. This analysis...
