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Gerald Mako
| Mar 27, 2026 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Emerging Technologies
Human Oversight with Chinese Characteristics: Lethal Autonomous Weapons in the CCW GGE The rapid rise of AI in warfare has thrust Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) squarely into the spotlight of international humanitarian law (IHL). Far from being a speculative...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part III: A Lesson from Military History? Parts I and II of this three-part post outlined the legal framework applicable to post-war repatriation of prisoners of war and highlighted two prominent fault lines...
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Crispin Smith
| Aug 29, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Policy
Is Lawfare for Lawyers? A growing body of scholarship is engaged with the threat of hostile “lawfare” or “legal warfare.” This scholarship is driven by lawyers, legal professionals, and individuals affiliated with military and government legal advisory communities....
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Nilanthan Niruthan
| Jul 30, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Requiem for IHL: A Geopolitical Perspective International humanitarian law (IHL) is facing a fundamental crisis. As Dr. Erica Harper recently noted, many actors around the world now openly violate the laws of war and face no consequences, accelerating the alarming...
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James Kraska
| Jul 28, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Weapons Law
Did China Just Violate the Biological Warfare Convention? In early June, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrested two nationals of the People’s Republic of China for conspiracy to smuggle a fungus called Fusarium graminearum into the United States,...
