Beyond Compliance Symposium – Compliance + Restraint Towards Full(er) Protection in War

Beyond Compliance Symposium – Compliance + Restraint Towards Full(er) Protection in War

Beyond Compliance Symposium – Compliance + Restraint Towards Full(er) Protection in War Editors’ note: This post forms part of the Beyond Compliance Symposium: How to Prevent Harm and Need in Conflict, featured across Articles of War and Armed Groups and International...
Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – The Application of LOAC in Domestic Courts and the Question of Expertise

Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – The Application of LOAC in Domestic Courts and the Question of Expertise

Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – The Application of LOAC in Domestic Courts and the Question of Expertise Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s chapter in Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict (Sandesh Sivakumaran and Christian R....
Joining in Wars

Joining in Wars

Joining in Wars Editor’s note: This post draws on the author’s paper with Miles Jackson and Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, “Identifying co-parties to armed conflict in international law: How states, international organizations and armed groups become parties to war” (2024)...
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency?

Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency?

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...
Detention by Non-State Armed Groups – A Review of Ezequiel Heffes’ Monograph

Detention by Non-State Armed Groups – A Review of Ezequiel Heffes’ Monograph

Detention by Non-State Armed Groups – A Review of Ezequiel Heffes’ Monograph Notwithstanding the ongoing hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, most conflicts today are non-international in character and involve one or more non-State armed groups (NSAG). Detention is...