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23 Feb Aerial Incident of 25 December 2024: Issues of Russian Responsibility
...The question remains whether that notification is a jurisdictional bar or a procedural requirement. Interestingly, ICAO first announced its decision on 12 May 2025, 130 days before the Russian lawsuit. Defenses Russian officials may claim that the plane was misidentified during the heightened period of military tension and drone attacks. Russia has implemented a closed-skies protocol to combat Ukrainian drones, and a plane was mistaken for a drone during that period. However, the black box revealed that the AZAL plane was damaged several minutes before the airspace was shut down....20 Mar Weekday News Wrap: Tuesday, March 20, 2012
...since a November 26th attack killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. In other drone news, Jack Goldsmith opines at Foreign Policy about the legality of the use of drones in the conflict with al-Qaeda. ICRC President Jacob Kellenberger met yesterday with Russian foreign affairs minister, Sergei Lavrov to discuss the humanitarian situation in Syria. Bloomberg covers the meeting here. Peru cancelled a British Royal Navy visit out of solidarity with Argentina in its dispute with the UK over the Faulkland Islands. Convicted Khmer Rouge jailer Duch testifies against his former bosses in...10 Oct 15 Years Later: A History of the Forever War and the Laws of War (Part 2 of 2)
...history of major contradictions, paradoxes, potentials, and limits, is far less teleological, or unitary, than what many have said so far. Sometimes they, the work of the laws of war and that of peacemaking, overlap and work cooperatively, whereas at other times they operate completely independently, or even work in ways going directly against each other, with occasionally potentially dangerous implications in light of relatively new technological (e.g. drones, autonomous weapons), legal (such as the 9/11 AUMF, the responsibility to protect), and certain ideological developments (the rise of emergency doctrines)....
10 Feb False Equivalences in the Nagorno-Karabakh Conflict – International Humanitarian and Criminal Law Perspectives
...Azerbaijanis. For this reason, it falls in violation of the 2008 General Assembly resolution which reaffirms that “no State should recognize as lawful the situation resulting from the occupation of Azerbaijan’s territories, or render assistance in maintaining that situation”. In the continued spirit of Islamophobia, the French Senate resolution also refers to “jihadist mercenaries” aiding the Azerbaijani army, despite the controversy surrounding these claims, and in spite of consensus amongst military experts that Azerbaijan’s military successes resulted from its use of advanced drones that were able to target Armenian military...
20 Jul Symposium on Cyber, International Law and Artificial Intelligence in Armed Conflict: Introduction
...to Iran. Examples include AI-enabled drones, autonomous and semi-autonomous defense systems, machine-learning tools used in targeting, AI-supported cyber operations, generative AI in information operations and cognitive warfare, and many others. All of these developments raise an urgent question: how does international law, and especially international humanitarian law (IHL), regulate these technologies, and what limits does it impose on their development and use? This symposium brings together four perspectives on distinct aspects of that question. It also offers an early glimpse of the forthcoming Oxford University Press volume International Law and...06 Apr David Bernstein Misrepresents Human Rights Watch (Yet Again)
...violations by the other. Instead, as Human Rights Watch has shown through detailed, on-the-ground investigations, Israeli forces fired white phosphorous munitions indiscriminately over civilian areas, shot and killed Palestinian civilians waving white flags, attacked children playing on rooftops with precision missiles fired from aerial drones and needlessly destroyed civilian property. Now let’s move on to various HRW reports. HRW, April 23, 2009:” Human Rights Watch’s investigation into the fighting in Gaza concluded that Israeli forces were responsible for serious violations of the laws of war, including the use of heavy...