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19 Jan

...at a recent symposium on the Boundaries of the Battlefield, co-ordinated by my fellow Assistant Editor, Jessica Dorsey, and Başak Çalı posted the second part of her series on international judicial review, comparing two cases of the European Court of Human Rights. In addition to our regular Events and announcements post, Julian announced that Tom Graham, member of the WTO’s Appellate Body, will give the Shapiro lecture at Hofstra on February 6. Roger congratulated David Caron on his appointment as the new dean at the Dickson Poon School of Law...
19.01.13 | |

14 Jul

...the Global South’s Burden by Madhumita Jayashankar Who is Responsible? When Private Military Companies Aren’t Completely Private by Lindsay Freeman and Amanda Ghahremani Ukraine’s New Bill on PMSCs – A Possible Pandora’s Box for Operations Abroad? by Darío Bürky Arellano From Contract to Combat – Individual Criminal Liability of PMSC Personnel and Its Integration into Emerging Treaty Frameworks by Adrián Agenjo Profit, Power, and the Privatised Battlefield by Ara Marcén Naval Playing Regulatory Catch-up – PM(S)Cs and the New Draft Instrument by Sarah Katharina Stein The views expressed in this...
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09 Mar

...international law community stands witness to what is perhaps, the Grotian moment of our times. Debates on whether international law is dead or alive (or in a quantum state worthy of Schrödinger’s cat) in the aftermath of Russia and Belarus’ evident and utter disregard for the so-called rules-based order, while interesting, provide little insight into more pressing matters of how to stop and deal with the Russian aggression. A significant part of the battle for Ukraine is not being fought on the battlefield, but in the halls of The Hague,...
09.03.22 | |

19 Sep

...saying. Via ChessVibes and OneFIDE, Ilyumzhinov is quoted at having said: “As President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE), and as a person who has always supported inter religious understanding, I propose the construction of an International Chess Center at the site in question. Chess is a unique and intellectual game, it came to the West from the East, unites every country, and it has affinities with every religion equally. My dream as President of the World Chess Federation (FIDE) is that chess becomes the only “battlefield” between East and...
19.09.10 | |

27 Jan

...black and white peasant boys of the USA, before whose graves I cried and prayed on a battlefield, which I reached, after walking the mountains of Italian Tuscany and after being saved from Covid. They are the USA and before them I kneel, before no one else. Overthrow me, President, and the Americas and humanity will respond. Colombia now stops looking north, looks at the world, our blood comes from the blood of the Caliphate of Córdoba, the civilization at that time, of the Roman Latins of the Mediterranean, the...
27.01.25 | |

04 May

...include non-state actors is appropriate. Sunday’s operation was another example of state practice undertaken with the belief that the boundaries of the battlefield are not determined by geopolitical lines but rather by the location of participants in an armed conflict, whether the participants are states or non-state actors. This continues to be the standard for determining where the law of armed conflict is properly applied. The second and third sentences of this statement are correct, but they in no way follow from the first sentence. IHL applies to the operation...
04.05.11 | |

08 Jan

...a handful of areas.Finally, Professor Borgen states "we have actually been focused on the Middle East to the detriment of the Atlantic Alliance and Latin American relations." I disagree... we may have been focusing on the Middle East, but with good reason, while Europe and Latin America have engaged in introspective navel gazing in comparison. USpace ..absurd thought -God of the Universe thinkscommunism is SUPEReven though it never worksbecause we are not robotsabsurd thought -God of the Universe feelscommunism is fairfools can't or won't think it throughidiots just keep scheming.....
08.01.06 | |

26 Mar

..., every commander is also a soldier , who needs to obey orders , whether – those of his superior , or above all – Political authority , In such : 3) We need to think , whether , at least , some liability , should be shifted , also to politician . If so , they would think twice before any military action , and we shall have less victims by all means . It's their call finally , for which, commanders, at the battlefield, may pay heavily. And...
26.03.15 | |

17 Jul

...without the responsibility of their superiors. For , one will have to prove first , or deal first : with - effective control , lack or not , of education and instructions, before dismissing any commander , and superior . On the battlefield, not an easy task!! All that , without expressing here , any opinion concerning the Marmara vessel case , since, what happened there, factually , is far as hell from the common assumptions. But , the Israeli governments , always choose not to deal with judicial arenas...
17.07.15 | |

06 Feb

...at any time and in any place. There is no requirement that there be a battlefield already in place before a soldier is attacked (or else who could fire the first shot since there is no battle without the shot, but there could legally be no shot without the battle first). Thus the legality of a Predator strike depends on the status of the target and not his location. If he is a regular soldier in a regular army, or if he is a member of an armed unit of...
06.02.10 | |

25 Mar

...— this was an enormously positive step. Second, on the substance. On first read, I think this is a great statement. It addresses an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban, and associated forces. But it also asserts self-defense several times as an alternative. I had been greatly concerned, frankly, that the administration’s lawyers would narrowly confine the justification for targeted killing using drones to situations that would really only cover the military using them on active battlefields. But on first read, this statement does not do that at all....
25.03.10 | |

06 Jun

...an B52, or .50 cal round from an M82A1 sniper rifle against an enemy military commander is ordinary combat. Although literally a targeted killing, it is no different from any battlefield death involving an aimed weapon. Certainly it no longer falls within any reasonable defnition of "extrajudicial execution". There will still be some who argue that even if an attack on a Taliban comander in Afghanistan is combat, the same attack launched five minutes later after he crossed the Pakistan border is somehow legally different. US practice seems to agree...
06.06.09 | |