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Fionnuala Ni Aolain
| Jan 7, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, In Honor of Françoise Hampson, Law of Armed Conflict
In Honor of Françoise Hampson – The Early Interface of IHL and Human Rights: Lessons from the Frontlines of Turkish Litigation Editors’ note: This post is part of a series to honor Françoise Hampson, who passed away on April 18, 2025. These posts recognize...
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Samuel White
| Dec 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Weapons Law
Tripwires to Trojans: Updating the Law of Booby-traps for the Digital Age Articles of War has featured discussion of the law of armed conflict (LOAC) rules concerning booby-traps (see, e.g., here, here, here, and here). All have been based in the land domain. I am...
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Samuel White
| Oct 14, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Mission Command Responsibility When Justice Paul Brereton’s report on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan was released, it sent shockwaves in Australia and internationally. It confronted and confirmed uncomfortable truths: that within Australia’s most elite...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| Feb 6, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
The Conflict in Eastern DRC and the State Responsibility of Rwanda and Uganda In late January 2025, a rebel alliance involving the militia group M23 seized control over the town of Goma, the provincial capital of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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William H. Boothby
| Oct 25, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Conflict Classification, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility, Targeting
Attacking a Pipeline: Legal Issues for Consideration Nord Stream 1 and Nord Stream 2 are pipelines constructed by a Russian State-controlled company called Gazprom to transport 110 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year from the Russian Federation under the...
