ENMOD: Dead Letter or Environmental Lifeline?
by Joanna Jarose | Mar 18, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law
ENMOD: Dead Letter or Environmental Lifeline? Editors’ note: This post is derived from the author’s article published in issue 118(3) of the American Journal of International Law. There is little denying that the world is fragile and battered. While our natural...
A New Tool in the Fight Against Impunity for Core International Crimes
by Jan De Gols, Vaios Koutroulis | Mar 10, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
A New Tool in the Fight Against Impunity for Core International Crimes Globalisation has made various aspects of our society more efficient over the past century. At the same time, it also brings with it a certain complexity. This is noticeable, for example, in the...
Ukraine Symposium – Terrorizing Civilians and the Law of Armed Conflict
by Gavin Logan, Kevin S. Coble | Mar 4, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Terrorizing Civilians and the Law of Armed Conflict Reports from the Kherson Oblast, an area of Ukraine the Ukrainian military recaptured in November 2022, indicate that the Russian military is using drones to target Ukrainian civilians as part of...
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows
by Ken Watkin | Feb 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
I Spy: Espionage, Perfidy, and Fighting in the Shadows In a 2024 Articles of War post, I identified that intelligence gathering, including espionage, is authorized by both treaty and customary international law during armed conflict. For international armed conflicts,...