Helen McDermott

About/Bio

Helen McDermott is an Associate Editor of EJIL:Talk! She is a Research Associate on the ERC-funded project: “The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Ethics, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict”, European University Institute, Florence, a Research Associate with the Oxford Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict, and Visiting Scholar at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.

Recently Published

Joint Symposium on Chatham House’s Report on Proportionality: Calibrating the Compass of Proportionality

This is the third post in our joint symposium arising out of the publication of the Chatham House report, Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Incidental Harm Side of the Assessment, Calibrating the Compass of Proportionality, by Geoff Corn. The full post is available now over on Just Security. Here's a taster from Geoff's…

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Joint Symposium on Chatham House’s Report on Proportionality: “Proportionality and Doubt”

This is the second post in our joint symposium arising out of the publication of the Chatham House report, Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Incidental Harm Side of the Assessment, Proportionality and Doubt, by Adil Haque. The full post is available now over on Just Security. Here's a snippet from Adil's post:…

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Introducing Joint Symposium on Chatham House’s “Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities” Report

Editor note: This piece is cross-posted on Just Security. In December 2018, the International Law Programme at Chatham House published a report, “Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities: The Incidental Harm Side of the Assessment,” analysing the key steps in making assessments about proportionality under international humanitarian law, with a…

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