Ukraine Symposium – Are Civilians Reporting With Cell Phones Directly Participating in Hostilities?

Ukraine Symposium – Are Civilians Reporting With Cell Phones Directly Participating in Hostilities?

Ukraine Symposium – Are Civilians Reporting With Cell Phones Directly Participating in Hostilities? As Russia continues to pummel electric grids and other critical infrastructure from the air, Ukraine is creatively developing methods to defend its skies. One new tool...
Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War

Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War

Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War This post was prepared in academic consultation with Major Inna Zavorotko, a lawyer with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Legal Division. A fuller treatment of wartime doxing, including in the context of...
Ukraine Symposium – Dirty Bombs and International Humanitarian Law

Ukraine Symposium – Dirty Bombs and International Humanitarian Law

Ukraine Symposium – Dirty Bombs and International Humanitarian Law On October 23, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made separate calls to the Defense Ministers of France, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In them, Shoigu claimed that...
Ukraine Symposium – Attacking Power Infrastructure under International Humanitarian Law

Ukraine Symposium – Attacking Power Infrastructure under International Humanitarian Law

Ukraine Symposium – Attacking Power Infrastructure under International Humanitarian Law Over the past few weeks, the scale of Russian attacks against Ukraine’s power infrastructure has grown dramatically. The Washington Post, for instance, has reported, “[d]ozens of...
Ukraine Symposium – The Complicity of Iran in Russia’s Aggression and War Crimes in Ukraine

Ukraine Symposium – The Complicity of Iran in Russia’s Aggression and War Crimes in Ukraine

Ukraine Symposium – The Complicity of Iran in Russia’s Aggression and War Crimes in Ukraine In recent days Russia has attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities using Iranian-made “kamikaze drones” or loitering munitions. While the EU is looking for “concrete evidence”...
Ukraine Symposium – Russian Preliminary Objections at the ICJ: The Case Must Go On?

Ukraine Symposium – Russian Preliminary Objections at the ICJ: The Case Must Go On?

Ukraine Symposium – Russian Preliminary Objections at the ICJ: The Case Must Go On? As readers of Articles of War may recall, Ukraine instituted proceedings against Russia before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on February 26, 2022, on the basis of the...