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Lily Hamourtziadou,
Welmoet Wels
| Oct 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Military Use of Biometrics Series
Military Use of Biometrics Series – Necrometrics and Contextualising Human Remains in Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the law applicable to the military use of biometrics. It is drawn from the author’s article-length work,...
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Marten Zwanenburg,
Aleksi Kajander,
Steven van de Put
| Oct 21, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies, Military Use of Biometrics Series
Military Use of Biometrics Series – Introduction On 7-8 May 2024, a conference brought together a group of scholars and practitioners to discuss the law applicable to the use of biometrics by armed forces. The conference, which took place in Tallinn, Estonia, was...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| Apr 30, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Human Rights, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues
Lieber Studies Series – Military Investigations Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Jelena Pejic and Margaret Kotlik eds. 2025), the eleventh volume of the Lieber Studies Series published...
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Rachel VanLandingham
| Oct 7, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, United States v Najibullah Symposium
United States v. Najibullah Symposium – Bad Apples are Still Apples Editors’ note: This post is part of a two-post symposium on a pretrial hearing in the case United States v. Najibullah. An introductory post by Professor Sean Watts provides background on the case and...
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Michael W. Meier
| Dec 15, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – The Question of Whether Gaza Is Occupied Territory On October 7, Hamas launched a brutal attack that killed more than 1,400 people and injured another 6,900 individuals, including at least 32 Americans. Hamas also took over 240 hostages...