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Robert Kolb
| Mar 11, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
The Role of Municipal Law Analogies in the Law of Armed Conflicts It is common wisdom that the law of armed conflict (LOAC) contains many “principles” or rules of considerable normative breadth and importance. Some examples include: the principle of limitation of...
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Robert Kolb
| Mar 4, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Occupation
An Occupying Power’s Authority to Conclude Treaties for Occupied Territories Can an occupying power conclude treaties relating to the occupied territory? Can it do so solely in its own name or also in the name of the State whose territory is occupied? No clear answer...
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Robert Kolb
| Feb 2, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Occupation
Of Evolving Belligerent Occupation Law: Old “Hague” Occupation and New “Geneva” Occupation For years, the legal status of so-called “functional occupation” was unclear in international humanitarian law (IHL) (see, e.g., this 2012 work by Zwanenburg, Bothe, and...
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Ronald Alcala
| Jan 28, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Gamifying War: Reward Incentives and “Outlawry” in Armed Conflict Both sides of the Ukraine-Russia conflict maintain incentive programs that reward soldiers for kills on the battlefield. Russia offers monetary bonuses for the destruction of enemy equipment, such as...
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Robert Kolb
| Jan 23, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict
Lexical Imperfections in the Hague Regulations of 1907 The Hague Regulations (HR) annexed to the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land were the first reasonably general codification of the law of war (as it was then called) in...
