by Dan Maurer | Sep 17, 2021
The Rhetoric of Retaliation The language we use to justify and describe legal constraints on personal conduct or grants of legal authority to our government is never totally free of bias, ambiguity, flawed premises, or unproveable assumptions. How we fix, manipulate,...
by Laurie R. Blank | Mar 4, 2021
The Legitimate Aims of Self-Defense The United States’ strike on Iranian-backed militias along the Syria-Iraq border on February 25 and the accompanying justifications, communications, and explanations have produced a flurry of legal discourse across the...
by Michael N. Schmitt | Mar 1, 2021
President Biden’s First Use of Force and International Law On February 25, President Biden authorized the first use of military force since becoming President. The operation involved two F-15s dropping seven 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions (JDAM) bombs...
by Aurel Sari | Oct 1, 2020
NATO in Outer Space: A Domain Too Far? This post examines whether Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty is applicable to armed attacks in outer space. NATO nations have recently recognized outer space as a new operational domain for the Alliance. Although the...
by Durward Johnson | Sep 24, 2020
The UN Soleimani Report and the U.S. Article 51 Notification On July 9, 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions released a report on the legality of targeted killing by drone strikes. The backdrop for the report is the...
