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Michael W. Meier
| 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...
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Jelena Pejic,
Margaret Kotlik
| Apr 23, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues
Lieber Studies Series – Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues Civilian protection is a basic aim and legal obligation of international humanitarian law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict (LOAC). Yet, as recent and ongoing armed conflicts in Gaza, Sudan,...
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Michael W. Meier
| Aug 26, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Occupation, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Is Ukraine Occupying Territory in Russia? In the early morning hours of August 6, Ukrainian forces in armored vehicles moved into the Kursk region of Russia. This surprise offensive by Ukraine into Russia represents the largest foreign incursion...
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Dan E. Stigall
| Jul 5, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Uncategorized
War, Law, and the Paths We Take I first met Sufyan Abbas in Tikrit, Iraq in the spring of 2004, when I was a first-tour Captain in the U.S. Army JAG Corps assigned to First Infantry Division. Iraq, in that moment, was unstable and smouldering. The detrital effects of...
