The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Cyber Operations – Part II: Jus in Bello

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Cyber Operations – Part II: Jus in Bello

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Cyber Operations – Part II: Jus in Bello Part I of this two-post series analyzed how the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Climate Change advisory opinion might reshape State obligations in peacetime and the period...
The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Cyber Operations – Part I: General International Law Considerations

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Cyber Operations – Part I: General International Law Considerations

The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Cyber Operations – Part I: General International Law Considerations In July 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its much-anticipated Climate Change advisory opinion. The opinion is worth reviewing...
Common Article 2 and Non-State Reciprocity in the Law of Armed Conflict

Common Article 2 and Non-State Reciprocity in the Law of Armed Conflict

Common Article 2 and Non-State Reciprocity in the Law of Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is an abbreviated version of an article appearing in the Emory International Law Review Volume 39 (2025). When the States that signed the 1949 Geneva Conventions...
Taiwan Statehood (or not) and its Ramification for Armed Conflict

Taiwan Statehood (or not) and its Ramification for Armed Conflict

Taiwan Statehood (or not) and its Ramification for Armed Conflict As outlined in a previous Articles of War post, the recent 2024 Lieber Workshop focused on international law and the future of multi-domain operations in the Indo-Pacific. One of the workshop’s panels...
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage

Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage

Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Attacking Big Data: Strategic Competition, the Race for AI, and Cyber Sabotage Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ chapter in Big Data and Armed Conflict (Laura Dickinson and Ed Berg eds. 2024), the ninth volume of...