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William H. Boothby
| Aug 23, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
2023 DoD Manual Revision – A Commentary on the Amendments (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) Introductory Remarks Shortly after the 2015 publication of the US...
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Alba Grembi
| Aug 18, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Stranded Seafarers Under International Humanitarian Law Introduction One of Ukraine’s first belligerent reactions to its invasion by the Russian Federation was closing its ports to international shipping—leaving 2000 seafarers stranded aboard 94 vessels in and around...
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Brian L. Cox
| Aug 16, 2023 | 2023 DoD Manual Revision, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
2023 DOD Manual Revision – Practical Concerns Related to the Presumption of Civilian Status – Part II (Editor’s note: This post is part of a series analyzing the 2023 revisions to the U.S. Department of Defense’s Law of War Manual.) Part I of this post...
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Martha M. Bradley
| Aug 9, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Mass Grave in Sudan: Revisiting the Rules on the Treatment and Disposal of the Dead On July 13, 2023, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk, reported that eighty-seven bodies were discovered in a mass grave in the west of the Darfur region in Sudan....
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Himanil Raina
| Aug 7, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Targeting
Merchant Shipping as Military Objectives and Naval Economic Warfare On July 17, 2023, within 48 hours of the suspension of the Black Sea Grain Initiative, Russia and Ukraine made pivotal declarations potentially expanding the scope of their hostilities to a hitherto...
