by Laurie R. Blank | Mar 4, 2022
Combatant Privileges and Protections Discussions of the status of persons in armed conflict over the past two decades have centered on the paucity of rules for such categorizations and difficult questions of detention authority, treatment obligations, distinction, and...
by Lieber Institute | Jan 6, 2022
Year Ahead – 2022 In our look back at 2021, affiliates of the Lieber Institute discussed some of the law of armed conflict issues that made an impact in the past year. In the present post, Professors Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Chris Jenks, Laurie Blank,...
by Lieber Institute | Dec 30, 2021
Year in Review – 2021 The approach of a new year provides an opportunity to reflect on the past year and to anticipate what the future may hold in the next. In keeping with the tradition of year-in-review surveys, we asked affiliates of the Lieber Institute what...
by Laurie R. Blank, Adam Oler | Dec 17, 2021
From Burning Sands to Baltic Gavel: Impressions from an Evolving Wargame As coalition forces fight to stop Russian invaders moving through Latvia, Estonia, and Lithuania, commercial drones fly over the battlespace and Russian fifth columns conduct sabotage operations...
by Laurie R. Blank, Eric Jensen, Daphné Richemond-Barak, Larry Lewis | May 26, 2021
Technology, Humanity, and the End of War The role of new technologies in targeting—including GPS-guided weapons, battle networks, collateral damage estimation methodology (CDEM), cyber, drones, and autonomous weapons—has been the focus of extensive analysis by...
