by Charles Layne | Jan 25, 2023
Ukraine Symposium – Ukraine’s “Suicide Drone Boats” and International Law Editors’ Note: As part of our 2023 Year Ahead series, our Board of Advisors member Prof. Dr. Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg presciently identified legal issues concerning maritime drones as...
by Camilla Cooper | Nov 7, 2022
Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully Time is overdue for moving on from discussing whether autonomous weapons should be banned to looking at how to ensure autonomous weapon systems (AWS) are used in a...
by Mehmet Çoban | Sep 16, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Targeting Leadership Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky recently spoke at length in Time magazine about assassination attempts against him. He indicated that Russian paratroopers had approached his location immediately after the invasion...
by Hitoshi Nasu, Winston Williams | Aug 19, 2022
Urban Siege Warfare: A Workshop Report [Editor’s note: The views expressed in this piece are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the ICRC, PILAC, or other participants.] Siege is a well-established practice in warfare. It seeks to compel surrender,...
by Angeline Lewis | Aug 17, 2022
“Weaponizing” Sexual Violence In War – An IHL Problem As the war in Ukraine approaches the six-month mark, reports of sexual violence against women and girls, and also men and boys, mount almost daily. In an extraordinary step, trials of Russian soldiers accused of...
