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Michael N. Schmitt,
Julia Flores
| Jul 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation
Protecting Inhabitants of Occupied Territory: Settler Violence in the West Bank On July 11, 2025, Israeli settlers allegedly beat Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, a Palestinian-American U.S. citizen and Florida native, to death during a confrontation near Al-Mazra’a...
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Dan E. Stigall
| Jul 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Interpretation & Development
Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct The nature of the legal pluriverse (“the plurality of existing normative orders”) remains a subject of debate. Monists view international law and domestic law as forming a single legal order. Dualists, on the other hand,...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – The Legal Protection of Hospitals during Armed Conflict The murder of Israeli civilians and the taking of hostages, including children, on October 7 provoked widespread outrage, and rightly so. But since then, that outrage has...
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Jon Griffiths
| Nov 9, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Humanitarian Protection, Law of Armed Conflict
Attacks and Warnings in Urban Warfare The media coverage of recent armed conflicts has brought to a wider audience the existential nature of urban warfare and its humanitarian costs. For some, the era of urban warfare has arrived. From an historical perspective,...
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John C. Tramazzo
| Jun 23, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Detention, Law of Armed Conflict
Sabotage in Law: Meaning and Misunderstandings On May 3, 2023, Russia accused Ukraine of attempting to “assassinate” President Vladimir Putin by launching two armed drones at the Kremlin in Moscow. Russia’s press service categorized the incident as a “planned...
