by Julia Grignon | Sep 21, 2022
The “General Close of Military Operations” and the End of Armed Conflicts The temporal scope of applicability of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) or Law of Armed Conflict (LoAC) – terms I use interchangeably in this post – has long been of personal scholarly...
by Pauline Lesaffre | Aug 11, 2022
Classification of Non-Consensual State Interventions against an OAG Constant progress in weaponry and means of transportation increasingly enables belligerents to cross borders to fight their enemy. Although not a new reality, cross-border armed conflicts between one...
by Stavros Pantazopoulos | Aug 4, 2022
The ILC Draft Principles on Protection of the Environment in Armed Conflict Introduction After almost a decade working on the topic “Protection of the environment in relation to armed conflicts” (PERAC), the UN International Law Commission (ILC) adopted on second...
by Michael W. Meier | Jul 20, 2022
A New Political Declaration on Civilian Harm: Progress or Mythical Panacea? On June 17, against a backdrop of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that has now killed or wounded over 11,000 civilians in a little more than four months, a group of States, the International...
