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The International Legal Framework Regulating Armed Drones

March 25, 2017

Last week I had the pleasure and honour of delivering the International and Comparative Law Quarterly's Annual Lecture for 2017 together with Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne. Our lecture was based on an article - "International Legal Framework Regulating Armed Drones" - that we co-authored with Professor Christof Heyns and Dr Thompson Chengeta which was published in Volume 65 (2016) of the ICLQ. The article arose out of a project to support Christof's work in his capacity as United Nations Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions. We began the collaboration in the summer of 2013 in the lead up to Christof preparing a report for the 68th session of UN General Assembly on "Armed Drones and the Right to Life". The project commenced with an expert workshop organized by the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Oxford Martin Programme on Human Rights for Future Generations and has concluded with this article which is an expanded version of the…

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Pre-Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Court Authorizes Initiation of Investigation in Georgia

February 1, 2016

On 27 January 2016, the ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I (PTC) authorized the Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open an investigation into the situation in Georgia, specifically focusing on allegations of war crimes and crimes against humanity during and in the immediate aftermath of the August 2008 armed conflict. In the…

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Targeting Child Soldiers

January 12, 2016

Despite the numerous volume on child soldiers in legal literature over the last few decades, very little has been said on targeting child soldiers. It seems to be something international lawyers would rather not talk about. The fact that legal literature doesn’t say much about targeting child soldiers doesn’t mean that no such practice exists, or that soldiers…

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Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict: Introduction to a Joint Blog Series

September 9, 2015

Over the next few weeks, three blog -  Lawfare, InterCross (the blog of the ICRC) and EJIL:Talk! - will host a joint blog symposium on International Law and Armed Conflict. The series will feature posts by some of the participants at the Third Transatlantic Workshop on International Law and Armed Conflict, which…

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The Case of Russia’s Detention of Ukrainian Military Pilot Savchenko under IHL

March 3, 2015

There has been much debate in recent weeks over whether international humanitarian law (IHL) authorizes internment in non-international armed conflicts (NIACs) (see posts here, here and here). Both sides have presented convincing arguments but without applying them to concrete situations. In this regard, Russia’s ongoing detention of Ukrainian Air Force officer Nadia Savchenko provides a…

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