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Sandesh Sivakumaran,
Christian R. Burne
| Jun 18, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume
Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict: An Introduction Almost every legal question involves aspects of law-making and shaping, be it identification of a rule, interpretation of that rule, or determination of the rule’s scope of application. Disputes over the...
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Martha M. Bradley,
Marko Svicevic
| Apr 8, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Collective Self-Defense and the Internationalization of Armed Conflicts in Eastern DRC Nearly a decade after the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) signed a ceasefire agreement with the March 23 (M23) rebel movement, violence has once again erupted in the...
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Benjamin R. Farley
| Mar 5, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Israel-Hamas 2023 Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency? Hours after Hamas launched a horrific and unprecedently large-scale terrorist assault on Israel, the Israeli Security Cabinet invoked, for the first...
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Martin Faix,
Marko Svicevic,
Sean Watts
| Feb 20, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Regulating Military Force Series, Use of Force
Regulating Military Force Series – Introduction In 1970, Professor Thomas Franck boldly concluded that only 25 years after the adoption of the UN Charter, Article 2(4) had been killed by the very States that had created it. In the 50 years since this conclusion,...
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Benjamin R. Farley
| Nov 6, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality, Terrorism / Counter Terrorism
International Law, Political Will, and Regulation of the Foreign-Fighter Phenomenon Editor’s Note: This post is based on an article, “Regulating the Foreign-Fighter Phenomenon” published in the Virginia Journal of International Law, available here. Across at least...
