Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency?

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency?

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency? Hours after Hamas launched a horrific and unprecedently large-scale terrorist assault on Israel, the Israeli Security Cabinet invoked, for the first...
Regulating Military Force Series – A UK Perspective on the Use of Force and the UN Security Council

Regulating Military Force Series – A UK Perspective on the Use of Force and the UN Security Council

Regulating Military Force Series – A UK Perspective on the Use of Force and the UN Security Council Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion,...
Not Dead but Sleeping: Toward a Broader Understanding of Ceasefires

Not Dead but Sleeping: Toward a Broader Understanding of Ceasefires

Not Dead but Sleeping: Toward a Broader Understanding of Ceasefires The concept of a ceasefire as offering a temporary pause during armed conflict dates back at least one thousand years and has religious provenance – ceasefires were originally known as a “truce...
Occupation Resistance, War-Rebels, and the Lieber Code

Occupation Resistance, War-Rebels, and the Lieber Code

Occupation Resistance, War-Rebels, and the Lieber Code The origin of the codified law of belligerent occupation is often traced to the Hague Regulations of 1899 (updated in 1907). However, the Lieber Code of 1863 laid important and underappreciated legal groundwork...
Whither Recognition of Belligerency?

Whither Recognition of Belligerency?

Whither Recognition of Belligerency?   Delineating, defining, and dealing with how the law of armed conflict applies to civil wars and other non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) has presented constant legal challenges over the last two decades. Numerous...