by Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg | Mar 10, 2023
Balloons are Not Always Joyful: The Legality of Downing the Chinese Spy Balloon On January 28, 2023, a Chinese high-altitude balloon (HAB) entered U.S. airspace near Alaska and, after transiting Canadian airspace, continued its voyage from the west to the east coast....
by Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg | Jan 5, 2023
Year Ahead – The Legal Status of Unmanned Maritime (Naval) Systems: A Never-Ending Story? An international workshop held at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, R.I., from 20 to 21 March 2012, was to discuss the legal status of unmanned maritime systems (UMS)...
by Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg | Mar 1, 2022
Neutrality in the War against Ukraine This contribution briefly addresses the question of whether and to what extent States that are not parties to the war against Ukraine are bound by the law of neutrality. In particular, are these States obliged to refrain from any...
by Lieber Institute | Jan 6, 2022
Year Ahead – 2022 In our look back at 2021, affiliates of the Lieber Institute discussed some of the law of armed conflict issues that made an impact in the past year. In the present post, Professors Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Chris Jenks, Laurie Blank,...
