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Samuel White
| Oct 14, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
Mission Command Responsibility When Justice Paul Brereton’s report on alleged Australian war crimes in Afghanistan was released, it sent shockwaves in Australia and internationally. It confronted and confirmed uncomfortable truths: that within Australia’s most elite...
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Samuel White,
Giacomo Biggio
| Jun 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Russia’s Trial of Australian Oscar Jenkins: Status, Legitimacy, and Lawfare When Australian national Oscar Jenkins crossed into Ukraine and picked up arms, he likely anticipated danger. What he may not have anticipated was the murky legal theatre...
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Samuel White
| May 21, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Space Law
Time to Treat Hackers Like Satellites: Why Cyber Needs the Outer Space Rulebook If you want to understand what’s missing in cyberspace, look up. In 1967, at the height of the Cold War, the international community agreed on the Outer Space Treaty (OST), a legal...
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Samuel White
| Apr 16, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Emerging Technologies, Law of Armed Conflict
Interning a Hacker Recently, at a workshop at Harvard Law School, I grappled with the question of internment in any international armed conflict (IAC) in the near future. It is a question some are uncomfortable with, although the concept of internment remains legally...
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Samuel White
| Feb 25, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
One Year On: Are the ICRC’s Principles for Civilian Hackers Shaping the Laws of War? In October 2023, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) laid down a stark warning: cyber warfare must not spiral into lawless destruction. Their eight rules for...
