by Sean Watts, Joshua F. Berry, Jennifer Maddocks, Liisi Adamson | Aug 5, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog
Five Years of Articles of War Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the launch of Articles of War. When we began, we promised our readers “timely, clear, and thought-provoking perspectives on the law of armed conflict and related subjects.” We hope we have delivered...
by Jennifer Maddocks | Apr 30, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Human Rights, Lieber Studies Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues
Lieber Studies Series – Military Investigations 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 Series published...
by Jennifer Maddocks | Feb 6, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, State Responsibility
The Conflict in Eastern DRC and the State Responsibility of Rwanda and Uganda In late January 2025, a rebel alliance involving the militia group M23 seized control over the town of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
by Jennifer Maddocks, Thomas Wheatley | Dec 3, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Emerging Technologies, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality
Lieber Workshop 2024: International Law and the Future of Multi-Domain Operations in the Indo-Pacific Editors’ note: The views expressed in this post are those of the authors and not necessarily those of any other workshop participants. From October 28 to 31, 2024,...
by Jennifer Maddocks | Nov 15, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
Article 9 and the Attribution of Armed Groups’ Attacks to the Territorial State The ongoing conflicts between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah continue to raise complex questions of international law. Some of these involve issues of State responsibility, requiring an...