The July 2023 Revision of the DoD Law of War Manual and Customary International Law

The July 2023 Revision of the DoD Law of War Manual and Customary International Law

The July 2023 Revision of the DoD Law of War Manual and Customary International Law Customary international law (CIL) is an important source of legally binding rules applicable in armed conflict. Where a party to a conflict has not ratified a key international...
Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – (Un)customary IHL in the 21st Century: Quo Vadis?

Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – (Un)customary IHL in the 21st Century: Quo Vadis?

Lieber Studies Making and Shaping LOAC Volume – (Un)customary IHL in the 21st Century: Quo Vadis? 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. Burne eds....
Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights

Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights

Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights 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, Destruction, Rebirth?” at the...
Draft Principles on Protection of the Environment In Armed Conflict

Draft Principles on Protection of the Environment In Armed Conflict

Draft Principles on Protection of the Environment In Armed Conflict Editors’ Note: This post is derived from a presentation given at the 2023 Israel Defense Forces Military Advocate General’s 4th International Conference on the Law of Armed Conflict. Global challenges...
Customary International Law, National Law, and Considering Data as Objects

Customary International Law, National Law, and Considering Data as Objects

Customary International Law, National Law, and Considering Data as Objects Cyberspace is a relatively new domain. It exists as something of a parallel universe, where properties and rules frequently differ from those of the physical world. And much of what occurs in...