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Dan E. Stigall
| Oct 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC
The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part II Editors’ note: This is the second in a two-part post illustrating the impact of French legal thought on the formation of the law of war with a specific focus on the...
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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,...
