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Anaïs Maroonian
| Jun 29, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam: Disproportionate and Prohibited Introduction On Tuesday, June 6, 2023, the Kakhovka hydroelectric dam was destroyed causing a major humanitarian and environmental disaster. This post analyses the question of whether...
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Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
| May 8, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Large-Scale Combat Operations Symposium, Law of Armed Conflict
Large-Scale Combat Operations Symposium – Environmental Protection in the Context of LSCOs Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed during an expert workshop that the Lieber Institute co-convened alongside Harvard Law School’s Program on...
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Gabriella Blum
| Apr 5, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
The Shadow of Success: How International Criminal Law Has Come to Shape the Battlefield The rise of international criminal law (ICL) and its expansion in the past few decades has been celebrated as one of the greatest achievements of modern international law,...
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Ben Rothchild,
Mark Jessup
| Mar 15, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – “Damn the Torpedoes!”: Naval Mines in the Black Sea For over a century the immortal battle cry of Rear Admiral Farragut has sounded throughout naval lore – “Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead.” As it turns out, what Admiral Farragut was...
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Anaïs Maroonian
| Mar 6, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Contextualization of the Principle of Proportionality in IHL: Criteria and Examples A previous post explored the normative nature of proportionality in international humanitarian law (IHL), both as a principle and a rule. Proportionality is a rule relating to the...
