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Kubo Mačák
| May 10, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, In Honor of Yoram Dinstein, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
In Honor of Yoram Dinstein – The Separation Between the Jus in Bello and the Jus ad Bellum Editors’ note: This post is part of a series to honor Professor Yoram Dinstein, who passed away on Saturday February 10, 2024. These posts recognize Professor Dinstein’s...
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Himanil Raina
| Apr 15, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Use of Force
Attacks on Merchant Shipping: Which State Has the Right to Respond in Self-Defence? On April 13, 2024, Iranian special forces seized the Portuguese flagged MSC Aries near the Strait of Hormuz as it sailed towards the Nhava Sheva port in India. The ship, which...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
Sean Watts
| Apr 12, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Common Article 1 of the 1949 Geneva Conventions On March 1, Nicaragua instituted proceedings against Germany before the International Court of Justice (Alleged Breaches of Certain International Obligations in respect of the Occupied Palestinian Territory). In its...
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Lindsay Moir
| Mar 22, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians, the Object and Purpose of Additional Protocol I, and the United Kingdom’s Reservation Editors’ note: This post considers one aspect of an article recently published by the author in The Military Law and the Law of War Review. It does...
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Ted Richard
| Feb 16, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Interpretation & Development, Weapons Law
An Assessment of Russia’s Withdrawal from the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty On November 2, 2023, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin signed a law withdrawing the country’s ratification of the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). This multilateral treaty prohibits...
