Pushing Boundaries: Domestic Courts and Legislatures as the New Laboratory for War Crimes Law

Pushing Boundaries: Domestic Courts and Legislatures as the New Laboratory for War Crimes Law

by , | Feb 23, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict

Pushing Boundaries: Domestic Courts and Legislatures as the New Laboratory for War Crimes Law War crimes belong to the category of so-called “core” international crimes over which the International Criminal Court (ICC) wields jurisdiction. Under the complementarity...
Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case

Prosecuting the Starvation War Crime in Germany: The Yarmouk Case

by | 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...
Terror, Chaos, and Shame: When Information Operations Constitute War Crimes

Terror, Chaos, and Shame: When Information Operations Constitute War Crimes

by | Feb 26, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict

Terror, Chaos, and Shame: When Information Operations Constitute War Crimes The informational dimension of Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine has provoked important debate around the legal framework applicable to information operations in armed conflict....
Prosecuting War Crimes Symposium – Justice for Victims of [Some] War Crimes Act?

Prosecuting War Crimes Symposium – Justice for Victims of [Some] War Crimes Act?

by | Feb 15, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Prosecuting War Crimes Symposium

Prosecuting War Crimes Symposium – Justice for Victims of [Some] War Crimes Act? Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed at a Lieber Institute expert workshop focusing on Prosecuting War Crimes. For a general introduction to this...
The Siren Song of Universal Jurisdiction: A Cautionary Note

The Siren Song of Universal Jurisdiction: A Cautionary Note

by , | Apr 1, 2022 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium

The Siren Song of Universal Jurisdiction: A Cautionary Note In the face of the humanitarian crises and government abuses in the Syrian Civil War, the German Office of the Federal Prosecutor General initiated prosecution against a number of Syrian officials for a range...