by Shane Reeves, Sean Watts | Nov 24, 2020 | "Attack" Symposium, Accountability, AoW Posts, Targeting, Topics
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 | "Attack" Symposium, Accountability, AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Targeting, Topics
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 | "Attack" Symposium, Accountability, AoW Posts, Targeting, Topics
“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 Laurie R. Blank, Daphné Richemond-Barak | Nov 12, 2020 | AoW Posts, Interpretation & Development, Topics
Ending Wars: The Law of War’s Latest Source of Stress The nineteenth anniversary of 9/11 offered a telling reminder of the problem of “forever wars.” In the United States, few Americans under the age of thirty can remember when the country was not involved in...
by Dick Jackson | Nov 11, 2020 | "Attack" Symposium, Accountability, AoW Posts, Targeting, Topics
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...
by Heather Tregle, Durward Johnson, John Cherry | Nov 6, 2020 | AoW Posts, Targeting, Topics, Weapons Law
The U.S. Landmine Policy Complies with International Law In late January, the United States replaced the Obama Administration’s 2016 landmine policy, which was first introduced in 2014. That policy had proscribed the use of antipersonnel landmines beyond the...