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Caroline Tuckett
| Mar 7, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Maritime, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Sunk in Battle but the War is Not Over: Who Owns the Moskva Now? The study of underwater cultural heritage, and that of sunken warships, has typically focussed on the legal protections surrounding a site in the years, or often centuries, after the...
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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,...
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Revaz Tkemaladze
| Feb 21, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reports that since February 2022, there have been 40,176 verified civilian casualties caused by the conflict in Ukraine: 12,340 killed and...
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Samuel Bendett,
David Kirichenko
| Feb 19, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – The Continuing Autonomous Arms Race As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine drags into a grueling war of attrition, both sides are intensifying efforts to achieve a battlefield breakthrough with technological innovation. The invasion has sparked a rapid...
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Mina Radončić,
Ash Stanley-Ryan
| Feb 12, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Presumption of Civilian Status in Cases of Doubt: A Vital Rule in Increasingly Unsettled Times Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Pro patria mori: When States Encourage Civilian Involvement in Armed Conflict” appearing in the...
