Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Study 2.0 Featuring the Martens Clause: Tool Rather Than Subject

Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Study 2.0 Featuring the Martens Clause: Tool Rather Than Subject

Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Study 2.0 Featuring the Martens Clause: Tool Rather Than Subject Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of...
Gravitational Points of the 19th Century Law of War

Gravitational Points of the 19th Century Law of War

Gravitational Points of the 19th Century Law of War When considering today’s armed conflicts, it may be interesting to devote a glimpse to the systematic pillars on which the 19th century law of war was constructed. On what main strands was that law erected and...
Transboundary Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict

Transboundary Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict

Transboundary Environmental Protection in Armed Conflict Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the author’s article-length work, “The International Responsibility of a Belligerent State in the Event of Transboundary Environmental Damage” appearing in the...
AWS Legal Review Series – Inclusion of Quasi-Legal Considerations

AWS Legal Review Series – Inclusion of Quasi-Legal Considerations

AWS Legal Review Series – Inclusion of Quasi-Legal Considerations This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean Watts provides an overview of the series. At an Expert...
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Qassam Rockets, Weapon Reviews, and Collective Terror as a Targeting Strategy

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Qassam Rockets, Weapon Reviews, and Collective Terror as a Targeting Strategy

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Qassam Rockets, Weapon Reviews, and Collective Terror as a Targeting Strategy The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and its military wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades (AQB), in the pursuit of its objective to “obliterate” Israel,...