Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed

Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed

Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed In July 2024, Australia adopted a new legal scheme to compensate victims of war crimes committed by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Afghanistan, which...
Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims

Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims

Ukraine Symposium – Litigating the Act of Aggression as Human Rights Claims The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine reports that since February 2022, there have been 40,176 verified civilian casualties caused by the conflict in Ukraine: 12,340 killed and...
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Press Access during Armed Conflict

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Press Access during Armed Conflict

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Press Access during Armed Conflict The conflict between Hamas and Israel remains a focus of global media coverage. The unprecedented nature of Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, the troubled, long-standing history of the independence of...
Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights

Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights

Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights 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, Destruction, Rebirth?” at the...
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in the Gaza Conflict

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in the Gaza Conflict

Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Information Warfare and the Protection of Civilians in the Gaza Conflict In the recent Gaza conflict, the battle has extended into a conflict of morality, with each party attempting to demonize the other side to morally justify their...