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Michael N. Schmitt
| Oct 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Lieber Papers Series – The United States and (Most of) the Rest: A Legal Interoperability Primer Editors’ Note: Articles of War previously published two longer works on the subjects of States’ responses to malicious or hostile actions and besieged forces’ legal...
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Clarissa Rodio
| Feb 26, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Regulating Military Force Series, State Responsibility, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – Justice and Accountability in the Era of Modern Mercenarism Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion,...
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René Provost
| Jul 15, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Rebel Prosecutions of Foreign Fighters in Ukraine On 1 July 2022 Russian state media reported that two British nationals captured by the “Donetsk People’s Republic” in eastern Ukraine would be prosecuted for “mercenary activities,” in...
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Robert Lawless
| Mar 21, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Are Mercenaries in Ukraine? Reports suggest both Russia and Ukraine are recruiting and supplementing forces in ways that potentially implicate international legal rules related to mercenaries. This post, after surveying media reports of mercenaries in Ukraine,...
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Petra Ditrichová,
Veronika Bílková
| Mar 15, 2022 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Detention, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Status of Foreign Fighters in the Ukrainian Legion Among other new resistance groups, Ukraine has formed an International Legion for the Defense of Ukraine (UKR Legion). There are reports that its members come from all over the world, including Canada, Japan, the...
