Faculty Publications

In this conversation, Capt. [Tom] Culora discusses the value of directed student research, how the fleet can leverage hybrid research groups, and how to identify what is most worth studying.

The article examines the legal context surrounding in-kind responses to hostile cyber operations conducted by, or otherwise attributable, to a State.

In this article, we briefly examine what the duty entails under both treaty law for States Parties and customary law for all States.

On October 24, 2020, following Honduras’ ratification, the UN announced the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) would enter into force on January 22, 2021.

In late January, the United States replaced the Obama Administration’s 2016 landmine policy, which was first introduced in 2014. That policy had proscribed the use of antipersonnel landmines beyond the Korean peninsula.

On July 9, 2020, the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions released a report on the legality of targeted killing by drone strikes. The backdrop for the report is the U.S. strike against Qasem Soleimani on January 2, 2020. And, in fact, although the report frames its contents in more general terms, it includes an extended case study on the legality of the Soleimani strike.

While ample attention has been paid to China’s employment of maritime militia and gray zone tactics in the South China Sea, a similar dynamic unfolding in the East China Sea has attracted less consideration, yet it is even more provocative and dangerous. China’s tactics test the credibility of Japan’s unique concept of self-defense and the Japan-U.S. alliance, underwritten by American strategic security guarantees.

It would be an extremely anti-national act, to continue doing business as usual with China, and continue to waste blood and treasure in futile nation-building in the Middle East. For what it’s worth, the time for a narrow national interest is at hand.

Interview with James Kraska.

Last week, the Report of the Group of Eminent International and Regional Experts on Yemen (Expert Report) was released by the UN Human Rights Council. It found an array of human rights and international humanitarian law (IHL) violations in the non-international armed conflict underway since late 2014, some of which the Expert Report characterizes as war crimes.

In a May 25, 2019 interlocutory decision, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) prescribed provisional measures in the case brought by Ukraine against Russia, ordering Russia to release three Ukrainian naval vessels and 24 Ukrainian service members seized on November 25, 2018 in an incident in the Kerch Strait.