by Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Liisi Adamson, Sean Watts | Sep 29, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, featured post, GC IV Commentary Series, Law of Armed Conflict
GC IV Commentary Series – Introduction Editors’ note: Sean Watts, co-author of this post, served on the Reading Committee that advised production of the ICRC’s Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention and co-authored two entries in it. Recent decades have produced a...
by Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Su Myat Thwe | Dec 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Anything Other Than a Classic NIAC: Examining Myanmar’s Legal Battlefield Myanmar’s civil unrest is traditionally characterised as a non-international armed conflict (NIAC). It arguably represents one of the most enduring civil wars in modern history. For the past...
by Rosa-Lena Lauterbach | Oct 20, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
A Decisive Moment Concerning Individual Rights and the Law of War? The question of whether individuals can hold rights under international law has hovered at the edges of international jurisprudence for a century. From the Permanent Court of International Justice’s...
by Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Rouven Diekjobst, Paulina Rob | Sep 19, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Revisiting Customary IHL Series
Revisiting Customary IHL Series – The ICRC’s Study at 20 Editors’ note: This post introduces a series relating to the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of War and Völkerrechtsblog. The series highlights presentations...
by Rosa-Lena Lauterbach | Aug 1, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case On 6 June 2024, the Investigative Judge at the Federal Court of Justice issued arrest warrants for five individuals apprehended in Germany. The suspects, taken into custody a month later, allegedly...