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Jeremy A. Rabkin
| Mar 29, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Use of Force
Why We Fight Matters to How We Fight We have all been taught that jus in bello (the law regarding the conduct of war) is a distinct set of rules from jus ad bellum (law regarding resort to force). It is a convenient distinction for many purposes. It is particularly...
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Raul (Pete) Pedrozo
| Mar 28, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Imposing a Maritime Quarantine to Enforce the Houthi Arms Embargo This post suggests that the United States and its allies should implement a naval quarantine to restrict the flow of Iranian weapons into Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen. A quarantine, unlike a...
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J.F.R. (Hans) Boddens Hosang
| Mar 6, 2024 | AoW Posts, AWS Legal Review Series, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
AWS Legal Review Series – Transparency and the Experience of the Netherlands This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean Watts provides an overview of the series. In...
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Rain Liivoja,
Sean Watts
| Mar 4, 2024 | AI, AoW Posts, AWS Legal Review Series, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
AWS Legal Review Series – Introduction In recent years, discussions about the legal compliance of various novel military uses of technology have shone a spotlight on something that used to be the obscure province of military lawyers: the legal reviews of new weapons,...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 29, 2024 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Emerging Technologies, Use of Force
The Influence of Weaponry on the Jus ad Bellum In an Articles of War post last week, Professor Terry Gill discussed his new book, The Use of Force and the International Legal System, co-authored with Dr. Kinga Tibori Szabó. It is a fascinating journey through the jus...
