Law of Armed Conflict/IHL

A response to Margulies and Azmy.

It has played a significant role in preventing and responding to atrocities in the past - it should take five priority actions now.

We drafted dozens of specific questions for Congress, reporters, and investigators to ask.

Joseph Margulies and Baher Azmy write to set the record straight.

We owe it to the next generation to grapple now with the consequences of remaining at war -- as well as the consequences of choosing not to be -- lest we find ourselves reflexively…

Accountability needs to include reckoning with Guantanamo, state-sanctioned U.S. torture, and secretive and unlawful lethal strikes.

Reviewing Samuel Moyn, Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2021), 416 pp. Samuel Moyn’s new book…

The D.C. Circuit will soon consider the consequential question of whether the Due Process Clause applies to Guantanamo detainees.

The laws of war can sanction uses of force with gendered consequences. Encoding IHL principles into AI systems may reinforce - or correct for - these disparate impacts.

In an upcoming filing, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, Benjamin B. Ferencz, says there is "very limited comparison" between the Guantanamo military commissions and the Nuremberg…

International law has an important role to play in cyberspace, but with regard to the ostensible rules of sovereignty and cyber due diligence, the United States should continue…

The prohibition on torture is absolute. The government’s commitment to upholding it must be too.