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Recap of Recent Pieces on Just Security (Oct. 21-27)

Russia Investigation and Facebook Ryan Goodman, Top Experts: Can Facebook Legally Disclose Russian Ads–What does the Stored Communications Act say? Artin Afkhami, Former Federal…

Letter to the Editor: The Whistleblower Protection Debate Continued

Recently, Andrew Bakaj and my former counsel, Mark Zaid, responded to my critique of their first piece on the state of national security whistleblower protections, stating We disagree,…

Letter to the Editor: Response to A Right to Fight?

My sincere thanks to Prof. Adil Haque for engaging with me in a debate, both here and at Opinio Juris, over the moral function of the laws of war. To recap, Adil proposed lowering…
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Letter to the Editor: Response to The Laws of War: Their Nature and Moral Function

Earlier this month, I entered the fray in a stimulating debate over Prof. Adil Haque’s innovative proposal to lower the threshold for defining non-international armed conflict…
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Letter to the Editor: Response to Human Rights in Armed Conflict, Part I

In a previous post, I raised numerous concerns with Prof. Adil Haque’s novel proposal that lowers the threshold for determining what constitutes a non-international armed conflict…
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Letter to the Editor: Chatham House Report and Individual Criminal Liability of Gov’t Officials

To the Editor: The Chatham House paper on “Aiding and Assisting: Challenges in Armed Conflict and Counterterrorism,” (see, State Complicity in Other States’ Bad Acts—and…
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Letter to the Editor: Syria and the “Implicit Consent” Myth–A short reaction to Ford (and Goodman)

In a recent post on Just Security (available here), Chris Ford raises the issue whether the Syrian government may or may not have ‘implicitly’ or ‘tacitly’ consented to…
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Letter to the Editor: Response to Luis Moreno Ocampo on Comparisons to Holocaust Denial

On Monday, Just Security posted a piece by former ICC Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo. In his piece, Ocampo argued against a longstanding critique among African leaders, according…
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Letter to the Editor: The Best Way to Protect Hospitals in Wartime—Enforce Existing Law

No warfighter should attack a facility that houses the infirm and those who care for them.  Likewise, no able-bodied warfighter should seek protection in a medical facility, and…
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Letter to the Editor: “Lines in the Sand”—A Reply to Professor Haque

I have noted with interest Professor Adil Haque’s critique of my posts (here and here) concerning the classification of armed conflicts involving non-consensual cross border…
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Letter to the Editor: Bombing Hospitals: Why Bad Actors—Not the Laws of War—Are to Blame

In “Military Attacks on ‘Hospital Shield: The Law Itself is Partly to Blame,” the authors address the dangers of analogizing between human shields and hospitals,…
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Letter to the Editor from Professor Terry Gill on Classification of International Armed Conflict

Firstly, many thanks to Professor Adil Haque for reading my piece and for his thoughtful comments on it, both favorable and less so. Let me briefly reply to some of the points…
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