by Sean Watts | Jul 26, 2022
Cyber Symposium – The Evolving Face of Cyber Conflict and the Jus ad Bellum: A Futurespective From 15 through 17 June 2022, the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare met in Washington, D.C. with the Tech, Law & Security Program at the American University,...
by Geoff Corn, Sean Watts | Jun 2, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Effects-Based Enforcement of Targeting Law The international armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine tragically demonstrates that the European continent is still not immune from war. It also illustrates that the laws of war are only as...
by Sean Watts, Winston Williams | May 5, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Destructive Counter-Mobility Operations and the Law of War Decades of experience have greatly improved familiarity with, if not always fidelity to, law of war rules applicable to attacks on enemy forces. Less well appreciated is the law of...
by Sean Watts, Hitoshi Nasu | Apr 4, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – A War Crimes Primer on the Ukraine-Russia Conflict More than a month into the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, allegations of war crimes have proliferated from media, advocacy groups, international organizations, and even States....
by Sean Watts, Robert Lawless | Mar 25, 2022
The Law and Character of War in 2035 In fall of 2020, the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at West Point joined a U.S. Army Futures Command (AFC) multi-year study on the changing character of warfare. The study has convened three times annually since. Its purpose...
