New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 25, no. 3, Winter 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Samantha Frances Bradley, Protection of Detainees from Sexual Violence under International Humanitarian Law
• Thibault Moulin, Reviving the Principle of Non-Intervention in Cyberspace: The Path Forward
• Stuart Casey-Maslen & Tobias Vestner, Trends in Global Disarmament Treaties
• Miloš Hrnjaz & Janja Simentić Popović, Protracted Armed Violence as a Criterion for the Existence of Non-international Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law, International Criminal Law and Beyond
• Robert Cryer & Natalia Perova, Peacekeepers: Internationalist Protectors or National Perpetrators, Protected Either Way?
• Bence Kis Kelemen, Human Shielding, Subjective Intent, and Harm to the Enemy
• Alon Margalit, Accounting for Those in the Hands of the Belligerent: Security Detainees, the Missing and the Dead in the Israeli–Hamas Conflict

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 25, no. 2, Summer 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Mutaz M Qafisheh, Human Rights at the Time of Transition: How Security Forces Can be Held Accountable in a Divided Community?
• Bianca Maganza, From Peacekeepers to Parties to the Conflict: An IHL’s Appraisal of the Role of UN Peace Operations in NIACs
• Conrad Nyamutata, Young Terrorists or Child Soldiers? ISIS Children, International Law and Victimhood
• Jack Mawdsley, Applying Core Principles of International Humanitarian Law to Military Operations in Space
• Elizabeth Stubbins Bates, The British Army’s Training in International Humanitarian Law
• Matthias Vanhullebusch, Do Non-State Armed Groups Have a Legal Right to Consent to Offers of International Humanitarian Relief?
• Peter Vedel Kessing, Liability in Joint Military Operations—The Green Desert Case

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 25, no. 1, Spring 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Elliot Winter, Pillars not Principles: The Status of Humanity and Military Necessity in the Law of Armed Conflict
• Samuli Haataja, Cyber Operations and Collective Countermeasures under International Law
• Emma J Marchant, Insufficient Knowledge in Kunduz: The Precautionary Principle and International Humanitarian Law
• Manuel Galvis Martínez, Betrayal in War: Rules and Trends on Seeking Collaboration under IHL
• Verity Robson, The Common Approach to Article 1: The Scope of Each State’s Obligation to Ensure Respect for the Geneva Conventions
• Ahmed Almutawa, Designing the Organisational Structure of the UN Cyber Peacekeeping Team
• Nery Ramati, The Rulings of the Israeli Military Courts and International Law

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 24, no. 3, Winter 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Natalino Ronzitti, Rescuing Nationals Abroad Revisited
• Jonathan Black-Branch, International Obligations Concerning Disarmament and the Cessation of the Nuclear Arms Race: Justiciability over Justice in the Marshall Islands Cases at the International Court of Justice
• Madelaine Chiam & Anna Hood, Nuclear Humanitarianism
• Luca Ferro, Western Gunrunners, (Middle-)Eastern Casualties: Unlawfully Trading Arms with States Engulfed in Yemeni Civil War?
• Hanne Cuyckens & Christophe Paulussen, The Prosecution of Foreign Fighters in Western Europe: The Difficult Relationship Between Counter-Terrorism and International Humanitarian Law
• Talita de Souza Dias, The Activation of the Crime of Aggression before the International Criminal Court: Some Overlooked Implications Arising for States Parties and Non-States Parties to the Rome Statute
• Barry de Vries, Could International Fact-Finding Missions Possibly Render a Case Inadmissible for the ICC? Remarks on the Ongoing Attempts to Include International Criminal Law in Fact-finding
• Trevor Michael Rajah, Grant Dawson, & Lydia Aylett, The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Contribution of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to Sustainable Development

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 24, no. 2, Summer 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Themis Tzimas, Self-Defense by Non-State Actors in States of Fragmented Authority
• Quoc Tan Trung Nguyen, Rethinking the Legality of Intervention by Invitation: Toward Neutrality
• Onder Bakircioglu, The Disputed Bounds of Muslim Warfare
• Ilana Rothkopf, International Humanitarian Law and Non-State Practice in Armed Conflict: Combatant’s Privilege and Kurdish Fighters in Syria
• Eva Nave, The Importance of the Arms Trade Treaty for the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals
• Roderic Alley, Leaking Like a Sieve? Transfer Restraints on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Ammunition
• Yohei Okada, What’s Wrong with Behrami and Saramati? Revisiting the Dichotomy between UN Peacekeeping and UN-authorized Operations in Terms of Attribution
• Richard Mackenzie-Gray Scott, State Responsibility for Complicity in the Internationally Wrongful Acts of Non-State Armed Groups

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 24, no. 1, Spring 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Elinor Buys & Andrew Garwood-Gowers, The (Ir)Relevance of Human Suffering: Humanitarian Intervention and Saudi Arabia’s Operation Decisive Storm in Yemen
• Phillip J Drew, Blockade? A Legal Assessment of the Maritime Interdiction of Yemen’s Ports
• Grant Dawson & Evangelia Linaki, The Legal Challenges in the Mission to Remove the Remaining Chemical Weapon Stockpiles from Libya
• Rebecca Barber, Uniting for Peace Not Aggression: Responding to Chemical Weapons in Syria Without Breaking the Law
• Yasmine Nahlawi, Overcoming Russian and Chinese Vetoes on Syria through Uniting for Peace
• Viacheslav Liubashenko, Treatment of Foreign Investments during Armed Conflicts: The Regimes

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 23, no. 3, Winter 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and General International Law
• Michael N Schmitt, Foreword
• Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne & Kubo Mačák, Editorial: The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and General International Law
• Katharine Fortin, How to Cope with Diversity While Preserving Unity in Customary International Law? Some Insights from International Humanitarian Law
• Vito Todeschini, The Impact of International Humanitarian Law on the Principle of Systemic Integration
• Marco Longobardo, The Contribution of International Humanitarian Law to the Development of the Law of International Responsibility Regarding Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes
• Remy Jorritsma, Where General International Law meets International Humanitarian Law: Attribution of Conduct and the Classification of Armed Conflicts
• Antal Berkes, The Standard of ‘Due Diligence’ as a Result of Interchange between the Law of Armed Conflict and General International Law
• Rogier Bartels, The Relationship between International Humanitarian Law and the Notion of State Sovereignty

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 23, no. 2, Summer 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Mauro Barelli, Preventing and Responding to Atrocity Crimes: China, Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect
• Dana Burchardt & Rishi Gulati, International Counter-terrorism Regulation and Citizenship-stripping Laws—Reinforcing Legal Exceptionalism
• Patrick M Butchard, Back to San Francisco: Explaining the Inherent Contradictions of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
• Alejandro Rodiles, Law and Violence in the Global South: The Legal Framing of Mexico’s ‘NARCO WAR’
• Maurice Cotter, Military Necessity, Proportionality and Dual-Use Objects at the ICTY: A Close Reading of the Prlić et al. Proceedings on the Destruction of the Old Bridge of Mostar

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 23, no. 1, Spring 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Heidarali Teimouri & Surya P Subedi, Responsibility to Protect and the International Military Intervention in Libya in International Law: What Went Wrong and What Lessons Could Be Learnt from It?
• Anders Henriksen, Trump’s Missile Strike on Syria and the Legality of Using Force to Deter Chemical Warfare
• Olivier Barsalou, Preparing for War: The USA and the Making of the 1949 Geneva Conventions on the Laws of War
• Alexandra Hofer, The ‘Curiouser and Curiouser’ Legal Nature of Non-UN Sanctions: The Case of the US Sanctions against Russia
• Francis Grimal & Jae Sundaram, Combat Drones: Hives, Swarms, and Autonomous Action?
• Paul B Larsen, Outer Space Arms Control: Can the USA, Russia and China Make this Happen

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 22, no. 3, Winter 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Ray Murphy, The United Nations Mission in South Sudan and the Protection of Civilians
• Harry Aitken, The Security Council and International Law Enforcement: A Kelsenian Perspective on Civilian Protection Peacekeeping Mandates
• Shavana Musa, The Saudi-Led Coalition in Yemen, Arms Exports and Human Rights: Prevention Is Better Than Cure
• Catherine Connolly, ‘Necessity Knows no Law’: The Resurrection of Kriegsraison through the US Targeted Killing Programme
• Lenneke Sprik, Command Responsibility in Peacekeeping Missions: Normative Obligations of Protection in a Criminal Law Environment
• Clive Walker, The War of Words with Terrorism: An Assessment of Three Approaches to Pursue and Prevent

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 22, no. 2, Summer 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Yasuhito Fukui, CTBT: Legal Questions Arising from Its Non–Entry into Force Revisited
• Jonathan Black-Branch, Nuclear Terrorism by States and Non-state Actors: Global Responses to Threats to Military and Human Security in International Law
• Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark, The Puzzle of Collective Self-defence: Dangerous Fragmentation or a Window of Opportunity? An Analysis with Finland and the Åland Islands as a Case Study
• Michael John-Hopkins, Extrapolation of Criminal Law Modes of Liability to Target Analysis under International Humanitarian Law: Developing the Framework for Understanding Direct Participation in Hostilities and Membership in Organized Armed Groups in Non-International Armed Conflict
• Merel A.C. Ekelhof, Complications of a Common Language: Why it is so Hard to Talk about Autonomous Weapons
• James A. Green & Stephen Samuel, The Chilcot Report: Some Thoughts on International Law and Legal Advice

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 22, no. 1, Spring 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Andrea Breslin, A Reflection on the Legal Obligation for Third States to Ensure Respect for IHL
• Ben Saul, Enhancing Civilian Protection by Engaging Non-State Armed Groups under International Humanitarian Law
• Eva Kassoti, The Normative Status of Unilateral Ad Hoc Commitments by Non-State Armed Actors in Internal Armed Conflicts: International Legal Personality and Lawmaking Capacity Distinguished
• Tamsin Phillipa Paige, The Impact and Effectiveness of UNCLOS on Counter-piracy Operations
• Katariina Simonen, The Strong Do What They Can and the Weak Suffer What They Must—But Must They? Fairness as a Prerequisite for Successful Negotiation (Benchmarking the Iran Nuclear Negotiations)
• Ilaria Zavoli, Peacekeeping in Eastern Ukraine: The Legitimacy of a Request and The Competence of the United Nations General Assembly

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 21, no. 3, Winter 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Non-State Actors and Responsibility in Cyberspace: State Responsibility, Individual Criminal Responsibility and Issues of Evidence
• Russell Buchan & Nicholas Tsagourias, Special Issue: Non-State Actors and Responsibility in Cyberspace: State Responsibility, Individual Criminal Responsibility and Issues of Evidence
• Tim Maurer, ‘Proxies’ and Cyberspace
• Kubo Mačák, Decoding Article 8 of the International Law Commission’s Articles on State Responsibility: Attribution of Cyber Operations by Non-State Actors
• Russell Buchan, Cyberspace, Non-State Actors and the Obligation to Prevent Transboundary Harm
• Nicholas Tsagourias, Non-State Actors, Ungoverned Spaces and International Responsibility for Cyber Acts
• David P. Fidler, Cyberspace, Terrorism and International Law
• Kai Ambos, Individual Criminal Responsibility for Cyber Aggression
• Elies van Sliedregt, Command Responsibility and Cyberattacks
• M. Vagias, 'The Territorial Jurisdiction of the ICC for Core Crimes Committed Through the Internet'
• Marco Roscini, Digital Evidence as a Means of Proof before the International Court of Justice
• Dan Saxon, Violations of International Humanitarian Law by Non-State Actors during Cyberwarfare: Challenges for Investigations and Prosecutions
• Jean d’Aspremont, Cyber Operations and International Law: An Interventionist Legal Thought

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 21, no. 2, Summer 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Masahiko Asada, A Path to a Comprehensive Prohibition of the Use of Chemical Weapons under International Law: From The Hague to Damascus
• Ray Murphy, UN Peacekeeping in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Protection of Civilians
• Amy Barrow, Operationalizing Security Council Resolution 1325: The Role of National Action Plans
• Tim Wood, ‘A Few Rotten Apples’: A Review of Alleged Detainee Abuse by British Personnel in Iraq Following the Al Sweady Inquiry. Is There Still a Case to Answer?
• Rob McLaughlin & Hitoshi Nasu, The Law’s Potential to Break—Rather Than Entrench—the South China Sea Deadlock?
• Csaba Törő, The Practice and Patterns of EU Military Operations in Concert with the United Nations

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 21, no. 1, Spring 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law, Justice and the Security Gap
• Christine Chinkin, Mary Kaldor, Iavor Rangelov, & Sharon Weill, Special Issue: Law, Justice and the Security Gap
• Iavor Rangelov, Justice as a Security Strategy? International Justice and the Liberal Peace in the Balkans
• Rogier Bartels & Katharine Fortin, Law, Justice and a Potential Security Gap: The ‘Organization’ Requirement in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal law
• Sharon Weill, Reducing the Security Gap through National Courts: Targeted Killings as a Case Study
• Jeffrey Davis, Equality of Arms: Complying with International Human Rights Law in Cases Against Alleged Terrorists
• C.R.G. Murray, Nudging or Fudging? The UK Courts’ Counterterrorism Jurisprudence Since 9/11
• Tilmann Altwicker & Nuscha Wieczorek, Bridging the Security Gap through EU Rule of Law Missions? Rule of Law Administration by EULEX
• Deval Desai, Putting Security Culture and Experimentation into Context: Towards a View from the Field(s) of Rule of Law Reform

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 20, no. 3, Winter 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Themistoklis Tzimas, International ‘public emergency’ and Collective Security
• Lars Müller, The Force Intervention Brigade—United Nations Forces beyond the Fine Line Between Peacekeeping and Peace Enforcement
• Kinga Tibori-Szabó, Self-Defence and the United States Policy on Drone Strikes
• Tetyana (Tanya) Krupiy, A Case against Relying Solely on Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Technology to Identify Proposed Targets
• Freya Foster, The Price of News from the Front Line: Rethinking the Protection of Media Personnel under International Humanitarian Law

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 20, no. 2, Summer 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Tom Coppen, Developing IAEA Safeguards: An Institutional Perspective on the State-level Concept
• Christian Schaller, Using Force Against Terrorists ‘Outside Areas of Active Hostilities’—The Obama Approach and the Bin Laden Raid Revisited
• Ezequiel Heffes, Detentions by Armed Opposition Groups in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Towards a New Characterization of International Humanitarian Law
• Sean Butler, Separating Protection from Politics: The UN Security Council, the 2011 Ivorian Political Crisis and the Legality of Regime Change
• Marina Aksenova, Conceptualizing Terrorism: International Offence or Domestic Governance Tool?
• Yasuhito Fukui, The Arms Trade Treaty: Pursuit for the Effective Control of Arms Transfer

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 20, no. 1, Spring 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Lianne J.M. Boer, ‘Echoes of Times Past’: On the Paradoxical Nature of Article 2(4)
• Rob Grace, From Design to Implementation: The Interpretation of Fact-finding Mandates
• Helmut Philipp Aust, The UN Human Rights Due Diligence Policy: An Effective Mechanism against Complicity of Peacekeeping Forces?
• Manuela Melandri, Self-determination and State-building in International Law: The Need for a New Research Approach
• Daragh Murray, How International Humanitarian Law Treaties Bind Non-State Armed Groups
• Nobuo Hayashi, Do the Good Intentions of European Human Rights Law Really Pave the Road to IHL Hell for Civilian Detainees in Occupied Territory?

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 19, no. 3, Winter 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Strengthening the Accountability of the UN Security Council
• Jeremy M. Farrall, Rule of Accountability or Rule of Law? Regulating the UN Security Council’s Accountability Deficits
• Antonios Tzanakopoulos, Strengthening Security Council Accountability for Sanctions: The Role of International Responsibility
• Larissa J. van den Herik, Peripheral Hegemony in the Quest to Ensure Security Council Accountability for its Individualized UN Sanctions Regimes
• Christopher Michaelsen, Human Rights as Limits for the Security Council: A Matter of Substantive Law or Defining the Application of Proportionality?
• Philippa Webb, Deadlock or Restraint? The Security Council Veto and the Use of Force in Syria
• Christian Henderson, Authority without Accountability? The UN Security Council’s Authorization Method and Institutional Mechanisms of Accountability

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 19, no. 2, Summer 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont, Compliance with Treaties in the Context of Nuclear Non-proliferation: Assessing Claims in the Case of Iran
• Anders Henriksen, Jus ad bellum and American Targeted Use of Force to Fight Terrorism Around the World
• Monika Hlavkova, Reconstructing the Civilian/Combatant Divide: A Fresh Look at Targeting in Non-international Armed Conflict
• Anton O. Petrov, Non-State Actors and Law of Armed Conflict Revisited: Enforcing International Law through Domestic Engagement
• Francis Grimal, Missile Defence Shields: Automated and Anticipatory Self-Defence?
• Susan Power, The 2003–2004 Occupation of Iraq: Between Social Transformation and Transformative Belligerent Occupation