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Michael N. Schmitt
| Dec 24, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Killing General Kirillov: Questions and Answers On December 17, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, the head of Russia’s Radiation, Chemical, and Biological Defense Forces, and his assistant were killed in a bomb explosion outside his Moscow apartment building. The bomb...
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Jennifer Maddocks
| Nov 15, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility
Article 9 and the Attribution of Armed Groups’ Attacks to the Territorial State The ongoing conflicts between Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah continue to raise complex questions of international law. Some of these involve issues of State responsibility, requiring an...
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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...
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James P. Sexton,
Victoria Kerr
| Sep 23, 2024 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, State Responsibility, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Use of Force
EU Support to Ukraine through Windfall Profits: Reparative Value, International Law, and Future Pathways Over two years into the Russian Federation’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the fate of Russian assets frozen by Western sanctions is followed almost as closely...
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Dale Stephens,
Joanna Jarose
| Aug 30, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict, Space Law
The Woomera Manual and Military Space Activities and Operations The ongoing armed conflict in Ukraine has clearly demonstrated the critical role satellites in outer space play in the conduct of contemporary armed conflict. The conflict itself has been termed the first...