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Thomas Wheatley
| Mar 27, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
“On the Brink”: The Geneva Conventions at 75 Editor’s note: The views expressed in this post are those of the author and not necessarily those of the ICRC, HLS PILAC, or other workshop participants. From March 12-13, 2024, Harvard Law School’s Program on International...
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Lindsay Moir
| Mar 22, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians, the Object and Purpose of Additional Protocol I, and the United Kingdom’s Reservation Editors’ note: This post considers one aspect of an article recently published by the author in The Military Law and the Law of War Review. It does...
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WP SitePlan
| Feb 21, 2024
With over 196 States parties, the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 represent some of the most — and perhaps the most — widely subscribed-to treaties in history. In signing the instruments on August 12th, 1949, the Plenipotentiaries of the Governments represented at the...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| Jan 26, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict
Detention by Non-State Armed Groups – A Review of Ezequiel Heffes’ Monograph Notwithstanding the ongoing hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, most conflicts today are non-international in character and involve one or more non-State armed groups (NSAG). Detention is...
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Yuval Shany,
Amichai Cohen
| Nov 22, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation, Use of Force
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – International Law “Made in Israel” v. International Law “Made for Israel” International lawyers inside and outside Israel have long been critical of Israel’s tendency to rely on very specific and problematic interpretations of...
