Lieber Studies Series – Protecting Civilians During Invasion

Lieber Studies Series – Protecting Civilians During Invasion

by | Apr 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues

Lieber Studies Series – Protecting Civilians During Invasion Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Jelena Pejic and Margaret Kotlik eds. 2025), the eleventh volume of the Lieber Studies...
Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer

Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer

by | Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict

Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published two longer works on the subjects of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions  and besieged forces’ legal...
Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict

Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict

by | Sep 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict

Regaining Perspective on the Law of Armed Conflict As I noted in my “2024 Year Ahead” post, I am worried that the law of armed conflict (LOAC) faces an array of threats to its application on the battlefield and beyond. The post set out five that I find especially...
Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr

Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr

by | Aug 2, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism, Use of Force

Targeting Hamas’s Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr On Wednesday morning, Israel killed the Chief of Hamas’s Political Bureau, Ismail Haniyeh, while he was in Tehran to attend the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. To do so, it reportedly...
Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict: An Introduction

Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict: An Introduction

by , | Jun 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume

Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict: An Introduction Almost every legal question involves aspects of law-making and shaping, be it iden­tification of a rule, interpretation of that rule, or determination of the rule’s scope of application. Disputes over the...