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Raul (Pete) Pedrozo
| Mar 28, 2024
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
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
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
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...
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Michael N. Schmitt
| Jan 11, 2024
Year Ahead – International Humanitarian Law at Risk I leave 2023 behind, dismayed about the state of international humanitarian law (IHL) and concerned that its effectiveness on the battlefield is at risk. In this year-ahead post, I highlight five threats as...
