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GC IV Commentary Series – On Interpretive Methodology

In its recently updated commentary of Geneva Convention IV, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) explains the ...
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GC IV Commentary Series – The Prohibition of Deportation and Forcible Transfer

This post explores the meaning of forcible displacement and the temporal applicability of Article 49 of GC IV.
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Asia-Pacific Journal Series – Dignitary Design: Embedding Human Dignity into Military AI

Asia-Pacific Journal Series – Dignitary Design: Embedding Human Dignity into Military AI Editors’ note: This post appears as part of a series highlighting articles in a recent volume of the ...
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Asia-Pacific Journal Series – The De Jure Necessity and De Facto Improbability of Establishing a New Military AI Treaty

Editors’ note: This post appears as part of a series highlighting articles in a recent volume of the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Law, on which presentations were made at a workshop hosted by ...
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GC IV Commentary Series – Individualization in Civilian Internment Decisions

Editors’ note: The following series considers ICRC’s 2025 updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention. Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Liisi Adamson, and Sean Watts’s introduction to the series is ...
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GC IV Commentary Series – On Interpretive Methodology

GC IV Commentary Series – Introduction Editors’ note: Sean Watts, co-author of this post, served on the Reading Committee that advised production of the ICRC’s Commentary on the Fourth Geneva ...
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Ukraine Symposium – International Law in the Crucible of Conflict, Volume 2

The second volume of Ukraine Symposium: International Law in the Crucible of Conflict was published on 14 September 2026.
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State-Criminal Enterprise

Criminal enterprises, once primarily associated with localized crime, are increasingly becoming a destabilizing force beyond national borders. A 2006 report from the Global Initiative Against ...
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Lieber Studies Non-State Actor Attribution Volume Series – Defining an “Insurrectional Movement”

Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series dedicated to Dr Jennifer Maddocks’ monograph, Attribution of Non-State Actor Conduct during Armed Conflict, appearing in the Lieber Studies ...