How we got to a situation where a President can reasonably claim that it is lawful, without congressional approval, to bomb a ...

Dismissing the importance of the law of war is a recipe for strategic disaster, the author of this op-ed argues. Here, U.S. soldiers provide suppressing fire during an exercise at Novo Selo ...

Rebels, Robbers and Radicals” brings the document alive through court cases of real people involved in real struggles.

Illustration: Ellie Foreman-Peck. Dec 19th 2024 | 5 min read. Listen to this story. ... In his treatise “On the Laws of War and Peace”, published in 1625, Grotius offered a solution.

On the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions, the world still witnesses brutal and illegal violations of the rules of war. Only greater collective responsibility will improve the situation.

But one thing is clear enough: such attacks violate the laws of war. There’s at least one general and one specific point to make here. First, the general.

In general, the law of war is not crystal clear in regards to terrorists and terrorism. Most of these laws were written, largely by academics, before terrorism became as prominent as it is today ...

With ongoing wars in Ukraine and the Middle East, NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with Matthias Goldmann, professor of International Law at EBS University of Business and Law in Germany, about the ...

The basic foundations of the laws of war, the Geneva Conventions and three Additional Protocols, were signed and ratified by 196 countries, more than any other international treaty.