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Jeffrey Lovitky
| Jan 23, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Application of the Principle of Military Advantage in Determining Proportionality This post examines the concept of “concrete and direct military advantage” used for purposes of applying proportionality rules in targeting. It concludes that military...
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Chiara Redaelli,
Carlos Arévalo
| Jan 19, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Criminal Organisations Party to an Armed Conflict and the Question of Targeting This post is drawn from the authors’ article-length work, “Targeting Drug Lords: Challenges to IHL Between lege lata and lege ferenda” appearing in the International Review of the Red...
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Raul (Pete) Pedrozo
| Dec 8, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Other Bodies of Law, Use of Force
Securing the Maritime Domain in the Red Sea Since the brutal Hamas-led massacre of over 1,300 innocent Israeli citizens on October 7, 2023, Houthi rebels based in Yemen have increased their attacks on Israeli and U.S. ships in the Red Sea. A statement issued by the...
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Nicholas Tsagourias
| Dec 1, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, State Responsibility, Use of Force
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – Israel’s Right to Self-Defence against Hamas Recent posts (here and here) have discussed Israel’s right to use force by way of self-defence against Hamas following the October 7 attacks. The gist of the first post’s argument,...
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Dan E. Stigall
| Oct 26, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Israel – Hamas 2023 Symposium – After the Battlefield: Transnational Criminal Law, Hamas, and Seeking Justice – Part I Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series illustrating the “transnational legal order” that must be used to counter Hamas outside the...
