Aurel Sari

Aurel Sari

About/Bio

Dr Aurel Sari is an Associate Professor of Public International Law and the Director of the Exeter Centre for International Law at the University of Exeter. His work focuses primarily on international conflict and security law and the law relating to military operations. He has published widely on the law of armed conflict, status of forces agreements, peace support operations, international human rights law and the legal framework of European security and defence policy. His work has been funded by the British Academy and the Economic and Social Research Council. In addition to teaching law at the University of Exeter, Dr Sari lectures regularly on international law and military operations in the UK and abroad.

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The Duty to Derogate: Suspending Human Rights in a Very Limited and Specific Way?

September 18, 2020

Section 12 of the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill currently making its way through the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to consider derogating from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to certain overseas military operations. The duty is the product…

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Hybrid Threats and the United States National Security Strategy: Prevailing in an “Arena of Continuous Competition”

January 19, 2018

The dividing line between war and peace is blurred. This is one of the messages emerging from the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America adopted in December 2017. The United States is accustomed to viewing the world through the binary lens of war and peace, yet in reality, warns the new National Security…

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Missing the Mark: Reprieve, ‘Kill Lists’ and Human Rights Advocacy

September 6, 2016

Deception, lies, murder, conspiracy. This is the stuff of crime novels. It is also the story spun in a report published earlier this year by Reprieve, a human rights charity active in the UK and the US. In its report, entitled ‘Britain’s Kill List’, Reprieve claims to reveal shocking proof that exposes the involvement of the…

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Popular articles by Aurel Sari

The Duty to Derogate: Suspending Human Rights in a Very Limited and Specific Way?

September 18, 2020

Section 12 of the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill currently making its way through the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to consider derogating from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to certain overseas military operations. The duty is the product…

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Jaloud v Netherlands: New Directions in Extra-Territorial Military Operations

November 24, 2014

Last week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Jaloud v Netherlands. The case arose out of the fatal shooting of Azhar Sabah Jaloud by Dutch troops in the early hours of 21 April 2004 at a checkpoint in Iraq. The applicant claimed that the investigation into the incident was…

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Sorry Sir, We’re All Non-State Actors Now: A Reply to Hill-Cawthorne and Akande on the Authority to Kill and Detain in NIAC

May 9, 2014

The recent High Court judgment in the case of Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB) has sparked a lively debate about the authority to detain individuals in the context of a non-international armed conflict (NIAC). In response to a post by Kubo Mačák offering a critical perspective on Mohammed, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne…

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