by Thomas Van Poecke, Frank Verbruggen, Ward Yperman | Feb 24, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Terrorist Offences and IHL: The Armed Conflict Exclusion Clause In our current article in the International Review of the Red Cross, we discuss the so-called “armed conflict exclusion clause” (also known as an “international humanitarian law (IHL) exclusion clause” or...
by David Wallace | Feb 7, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, LOAC History, Occupation
Reflections on the Law of Occupation: Afghanistan and Iraq A recent New York Times article discussed, in part, the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan, raising important, yet underexplored, questions about occupations under the law of armed conflict (LOAC). The...
by Emily Crawford | Feb 3, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Non-Binding Norms in the Law of Armed Conflict In the aftermath of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Bush administration appointees criticized the Geneva Conventions as being, among other things, obsolete and out of date. Indeed, one of the consistent criticisms of...
by Sean Watts, Winston Williams, Ronald Alcala | Oct 6, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Hays Parks Symposium, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History, Weapons Law
Symposium Intro: Hays Parks’s Influence on the Law of War Most developments and codifications of the law of war have been responses to the evolving character of warfare. Indeed, a timeline of law of war treaties reads like a chronicle of changes in the tactics,...
by Dan Maurer | Sep 17, 2021 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
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,...