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10 Oct John Yoo Gives Partial Endorsement for Awlaki Memo
...put aside the arguments they made during the Bush years that any terrorist outside the Afghani battlefield was a criminal suspect who deserved his day in federal court. By my lights, I would rather the Obama folks be hypocrites in favor of protecting the national security than principled fools (which they are free to be in the faculty lounges both before and after their time in government). But the administration’s former worldview of terrorism still infects their decisions, to the country’s detriment. According to the reports, the Obama administration believes...27 Jan Gustavo Petro’s Response to Trump
...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...04 May Quick Thoughts on UBL’s Killing — and a Response to Lewis
...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...
31 Mar Water Under Fire: The (il)legality of Reprisals Against Desalination Plants
[Tadesse Kebebew is a Project Manager at the Geneva Water Hub, a joint centre of the University of Geneva and the Geneva Graduate Institute. He leads a project that examines the impacts of damage or attacks on water systems on civilians and the environment. He holds a PhD in international law from the Geneva Graduate Institute (Switzerland).] Water Desalination Facilities Have Entered the Battlefield Water infrastructure has emerged as a critical, and increasingly vulnerable, feature of contemporary armed conflict, and has in many contexts been deliberately targeted or incidentally damaged....19 Jan Weekend Roundup: January 12-18, 2013
...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...
14 Jul The Business of Security: New Frontiers and Old Challenges in Private Military and Security Companies Regulation – Introduction to the Symposium
...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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Gabriella Citroni, Chiara Gabriele, Danaé van der Straten Ponthoz and Julie Bardèche
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29 May New Laws for a New Cybercommand?
...should use cyberweapons, and the public announcement on Friday is expected to focus solely on defensive steps and the government’s acknowledgment that it needs to be better organized to face the threat from foes attacking military, government and commercial online systems. . . . “We are not comfortable discussing the question of offensive cyberoperations, but we consider cyberspace a war-fighting domain,“ said Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman. “We need to be able to operate within that domain just like on any battlefield, which includes protecting our freedom of movement and...