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Caitlin Chiaramonte,
Matt Montazzoli
| Apr 17, 2026 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Built Without a Battlefield: Challenges of a Cold Case War Crimes Prosecution Australian authorities recently arrested Ben Roberts-Smith for war crimes including multiple unlawful killings of prisoners and non-combatants. Roberts-Smith, long regarded as one of...
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Samuel White
| Oct 14, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Mission Command Responsibility When Justice Paul Brereton’s report on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan was released, it sent shockwaves in Australia and internationally. It confronted and confirmed uncomfortable truths: that within Australia’s most elite...
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Emily Camins
| Jul 25, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Australia’s Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme: A Pragmatic Model for Individual Reparations Editors’ note: This post draws from the author’s forthcoming examination of the Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme’s legal framework and...
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Samuel White,
Giacomo Biggio
| Jun 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Russia’s Trial of Australian Oscar Jenkins: Status, Legitimacy, and Lawfare When Australian national Oscar Jenkins crossed into Ukraine and picked up arms, he likely anticipated danger. What he may not have anticipated was the murky legal theatre...
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Samuel White
| Apr 16, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Emerging Technologies, Law of Armed Conflict
Interning a Hacker Recently, at a workshop at Harvard Law School, I grappled with the question of internment in any international armed conflict (IAC) in the near future. It is a question some are uncomfortable with, although the concept of internment remains legally...
