Command Responsibility and the Ukraine Conflict

Command Responsibility and the Ukraine Conflict

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...
Hays Parks and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility

Hays Parks and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility

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...
The Impact of Military Justice Reform on Command Responsibility

The Impact of Military Justice Reform on Command Responsibility

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...