Dual-Use Objects and Dual-Purpose Attacks

Dual-Use Objects and Dual-Purpose Attacks

Dual-Use Objects and Dual-Purpose Attacks Editors’ note: This post highlights work in the author’s recent chapter, “Objective and Subjective Tests for Determining Violations of the Law of Targeting: The Unreasonable Commander and the Guilty Mind,” appearing in Volume...
What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict

What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict

What Aggregate Civilian-Combatant Ratios Tell Us, And What They Don’t: A Case Study from the Gaza Conflict Public debate about contemporary armed conflict increasingly relies on aggregate civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios as indicators of legality and moral...
Tripwires to Trojans: Updating the Law of Booby-traps for the Digital Age

Tripwires to Trojans: Updating the Law of Booby-traps for the Digital Age

Tripwires to Trojans: Updating the Law of Booby-traps for the Digital Age Articles of War has featured discussion of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) rules concerning booby-traps (see, e.g., here, here, here, and here). All have been based in the land domain. I am...
The Internal Proportionality Assessment in Cyberspace

The Internal Proportionality Assessment in Cyberspace

The Internal Proportionality Assessment in Cyberspace The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia’s Prosecutor v. Prlić et al. Appeals Chamber judgment, as well as the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission’s Western Front arbitral award found that a...
Military Use of Biometrics Series – Necrometrics and Contextualising Human Remains in Armed Conflict

Military Use of Biometrics Series – Necrometrics and Contextualising Human Remains in Armed Conflict

Military Use of Biometrics Series – Necrometrics and Contextualising Human Remains in Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the law applicable to the military use of biometrics. It is drawn from the author’s article-length work,...