by Aaron Fellmeth, Emily Crawford | Jul 25, 2022
“Reason to Know” in the Law of Command Responsibility During the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, the Australian Defence Force (ADF) collaborated with coalition forces to overcome the Taliban, secure peace in large portions of Afghanistan, train Afghan...
by Douglas Guilfoyle | Jul 21, 2022
Alleged UK War Crimes in Afghanistan The Alleged Crimes and the Australian Parallels An investigation by the BBC television news program Panorama has reported that U.K. “SAS operatives in Afghanistan repeatedly killed detainees and unarmed men.” Intentionally killing...
by Noëlle Quénivet | Mar 30, 2022
Command Responsibility and the Ukraine Conflict The news on the conflict in Ukraine is replete with violations of international humanitarian law (IHL), conveying the impression that soldiers have either been ordered to commit these crimes or have been allowed to do so...
by Victor M. Hansen | Oct 18, 2021
Hays Parks and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility While he was a graduate student at the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s School in 1973, then-Major Hays Parks wrote a thesis titled “Command Responsibility for War Crimes” that was published in the Military Law...
by Michel Paradis | Jun 1, 2021
The Impact of Military Justice Reform on Command Responsibility Over the past decade, the prevalence of sexual assault faced by women in the United States armed forces has prompted Congress to enact a series of reforms to the military justice system. The...
