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Talking Foreign Policy: Untangling The Yemen Crisis, Milena Sterio, Michael P. Scharf, Paul R. Williams, James Johnson, Laura Graham Apr 2019

Talking Foreign Policy: Untangling The Yemen Crisis, Milena Sterio, Michael P. Scharf, Paul R. Williams, James Johnson, Laura Graham

Law Faculty Articles and Essays

Talking Foreign Policy is a production of Case Western Reserve University and is produced in partnership with 90.3 FM WCPN ideastream. Questions and comments about the topics discussed on the show, or to suggest future topics, go to talkingforeignpolicy@case.edu.


Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, Kristina Daugirdas, Julian Davis Mortenson Apr 2017

Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, Kristina Daugirdas, Julian Davis Mortenson

Articles

In this section: • United States Abstains on Security Council Resolution Criticizing Israeli Settlements • United States Sanctions Russian Individuals and Entities After Accusing Russian Government of Using Hacking to Interfere with U.S. Election Process; Congressional Committees and Intelligence and Law Enforcement Agencies Continue to Investigate President Trump’s Connections to Russian Officials • Second Circuit Overturns $655 Million Jury Verdict Against Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority • New Legislation Seeks to Confirm Immunity of Artwork and Facilitate Cultural Exchange • United States Confronts China over Seizure of Unmanned Drone in the South China Sea • International Criminal Court Prosecutor …


Finding The Balance Between Price And Protection: Establishing A Surface-To-Air Fire Risk-Reduction Training Policy For Air-Carrier Pilots, Earl W. Burress Jr., Ph.D. Jan 2017

Finding The Balance Between Price And Protection: Establishing A Surface-To-Air Fire Risk-Reduction Training Policy For Air-Carrier Pilots, Earl W. Burress Jr., Ph.D.

Journal of Aviation/Aerospace Education & Research

Currently, U.S. air carriers do not provide equipment or training necessary to mitigate the risk posed by surface-to-air fire (SAFIRE) threats. These threats consist of self-guided weapons (infrared shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles), manually-aimed threats (small arms, recoilless grenade launchers, rockets, and light anti-aircraft artillery), and hand-held lasers. Technological solutions to counter infrared shoulder-fired missiles have been explored, but were rejected due to prohibitive equipment and maintenance costs. A lower cost option, providing air-carrier pilots with SAFIRE risk-reduction training, has not been formally addressed by the air-carrier industry or the U.S. federal government. This effort will use a business concept, the Cost-Benefit …


Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, Daugirdas Kristina, Julian Davis Mortenson Jan 2017

Contemporary Practice Of The United States Relating To International Law, Daugirdas Kristina, Julian Davis Mortenson

Articles

In this section: • Congress Overrides Obama’s Veto to Pass Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act • U.S. Federal Court of Appeals Upholds United Nations’ Immunity in Case Related to Cholera in Haiti • U.S.-Russian Agreements on Syria Break Down as the Syrian Conflict Continues • Russia Suspends Bilateral Agreement with United States on Disposal of Weapons-Grade Plutonium • The United States Makes Payment to Family of Italian Killed in CIA Air Strike • United States Ratifies Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance


Classifying The Conflict In Syria, Terry D. Gill Aug 2016

Classifying The Conflict In Syria, Terry D. Gill

International Law Studies

This article examines the classification of the current armed conflict in Syria under international humanitarian law. The article first sets out the factual background identifying the principal parties and their alignments and motivations. It then proceeds to examine the question of classification of conflict under international humanitarian law and discusses the contentious issue of the effect of lack of consent by the government of a State in relation to foreign intervention in an ongoing non-international armed conflict when such intervention is directed against one or more armed groups operating from within that State’s territory. It then proceeds to apply these …


Lost In Translation? The Relevancy Of Kobe Bryant And Aristotle To The Legality Of Modern Warfare, Rachel E. Vanlandingham Jul 2015

Lost In Translation? The Relevancy Of Kobe Bryant And Aristotle To The Legality Of Modern Warfare, Rachel E. Vanlandingham

Pepperdine Law Review

What do Kobe Bryant, Aristotle, and the continuing U.S. response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, have in common? President Barack Obama told the New Yorker in early 2014, in response to a question regarding the seeming resurgence of al Qaeda in Syria and Iraq, that “[t]he analogy we use around here sometimes, and I think is accurate, is if a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms that doesn’t make them Kobe Bryant.” As this example demonstrates, the Obama Administration and others, in reference to the legality of the use of armed force against al Qaeda and similar …


Self-Interest Or Self-Inflicted? How The United States Charges Its Service Members For Violating The Laws Of War, Chris Jenks Jan 2015

Self-Interest Or Self-Inflicted? How The United States Charges Its Service Members For Violating The Laws Of War, Chris Jenks

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This chapter explores the aspects of self-interest implicated by the US military prosecuting its own service members who violate the laws of war under different criminal charges than it prosecutes enemy belligerents who commit substantially similar offences. The chapter briefly explains how the US asserts criminal jurisdiction over its service members before turning to how the US military reports violations of the laws of war. It then sets out the US methodology for charging such violations as applied to its service members, and compares this methodology to that applied to those tried by military commissions. The chapter then discusses the …


Civilian Casualties In Modern Warfare: The Death Of The Collateral Damage Rule, Valerie C. Epps Jun 2014

Civilian Casualties In Modern Warfare: The Death Of The Collateral Damage Rule, Valerie C. Epps

Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law

No abstract provided.


Ending Perpetual War? Constitutional War Termination Powers And The Conflict Against Al Qaeda, David A. Simon May 2014

Ending Perpetual War? Constitutional War Termination Powers And The Conflict Against Al Qaeda, David A. Simon

Pepperdine Law Review

This Article presents a framework for interpreting the constitutional war termination powers of Congress and the President and applies this framework to questions involving how and when the war against Al Qaeda and associated forces could end. Although constitutional theory and practice suggest the validity of congressional actions to initiate war, the issue of Congress’s constitutional role in ending war has received little attention in scholarly debates. Theoretically, this Article contends that terminating war without meaningful cooperation between the President and Congress generates tension with the principle of the separation of powers underpinning the U.S. constitutional system, with the Framers’ …


The Law Of State Responsibility In Relation To Border Crossings: An Ignored Legal Paradigm, Louise Arimatsu Dec 2013

The Law Of State Responsibility In Relation To Border Crossings: An Ignored Legal Paradigm, Louise Arimatsu

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Networks In Non-International Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders And Defining "Organized Armed Groups", Peter Margulies Dec 2013

Networks In Non-International Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders And Defining "Organized Armed Groups", Peter Margulies

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


International Law And Cyber Threats From Non-State Actors, Laurie R. Blank Dec 2013

International Law And Cyber Threats From Non-State Actors, Laurie R. Blank

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Global Armed Conflict? The Threshold Of Extraterritorial Non-International Armed Conflict, Sasha Radin Dec 2013

Global Armed Conflict? The Threshold Of Extraterritorial Non-International Armed Conflict, Sasha Radin

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Geography Of Cyber Conflict: Through A Glass Darkly, Ashley Deeks Dec 2013

The Geography Of Cyber Conflict: Through A Glass Darkly, Ashley Deeks

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Cyber War And International Law: Does The International Legal Process Constitute A Threat To U.S. Vital Interests?, John F. Murphy Dec 2013

Cyber War And International Law: Does The International Legal Process Constitute A Threat To U.S. Vital Interests?, John F. Murphy

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Geography Of Armed Conflict: Why It Is A Mistake To Fish For The Red Herring, Geoffrey S. Corn Dec 2013

Geography Of Armed Conflict: Why It Is A Mistake To Fish For The Red Herring, Geoffrey S. Corn

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell Nov 2013

Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell

Mary Ellen O'Connell

No abstract provided.


Networks In Non-International Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders And Defining "Organized Armed Group", Peter Margulies Jan 2013

Networks In Non-International Armed Conflicts: Crossing Borders And Defining "Organized Armed Group", Peter Margulies

Law Faculty Scholarship

No abstract provided.


An Australian Perspective On Non-International Armed Conflict: Afghanistan And East Timor, Rob Mclaughlin Aug 2012

An Australian Perspective On Non-International Armed Conflict: Afghanistan And East Timor, Rob Mclaughlin

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Toward A Limited Consensus On The Loss Of Civilian Immunity In Non-International Armed Conflict: Making Progress Through Practice, Stephen Pomper Aug 2012

Toward A Limited Consensus On The Loss Of Civilian Immunity In Non-International Armed Conflict: Making Progress Through Practice, Stephen Pomper

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Property Of Self-Defense Targetings Of Members Of Al Qaeda And Applicable Principles Of Distinction And Proportionality, Jordan J. Paust Jan 2012

Property Of Self-Defense Targetings Of Members Of Al Qaeda And Applicable Principles Of Distinction And Proportionality, Jordan J. Paust

ILSA Journal of International & Comparative Law

The United States has engaged in the targeted killing of certain members of al Qaeda both within the theatre of an actual war in Afghanistan and parts of Pakistan, and outside the theatre of war as a matter of self-defense in areas such as Yemen, including the killing of United States national Anwar al-Awlaki in Yemen on September 30, 2011.'


Xvi Litigating How We Fight, Ashley S. Deeks Aug 2011

Xvi Litigating How We Fight, Ashley S. Deeks

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Combating Terrorist: Legal Challenges In The Post-9/11 World, Nicholas Rostow Aug 2011

Combating Terrorist: Legal Challenges In The Post-9/11 World, Nicholas Rostow

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Mission Impossible? International Law And The Changing Character Of War, John F. Murphy Aug 2011

Mission Impossible? International Law And The Changing Character Of War, John F. Murphy

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The "Fog Of Law": The Law Of Armed Conflict In Operation Iraqi Freedom, Marc Warren Dec 2010

The "Fog Of Law": The Law Of Armed Conflict In Operation Iraqi Freedom, Marc Warren

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell Jan 2010

Responses To The Ten Questions, Mary Ellen O'Connell

Journal Articles

The Journal of the National Security Forum (JNSF) Board of Editors posed ten questions on national security to a group of national-security law experts. Professor Mary Ellen O’Connell’s answers to the ten questions are presented.


Afghanistan And The Nature Of Conflict, Charles Garraway Aug 2009

Afghanistan And The Nature Of Conflict, Charles Garraway

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Afghanistan: Hard Choices And The Future Of International Law, John F. Murphy Aug 2009

Afghanistan: Hard Choices And The Future Of International Law, John F. Murphy

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Law Of Armed Conflict And Detention Operations In Afghanistan, Matthew C. Waxman Aug 2009

The Law Of Armed Conflict And Detention Operations In Afghanistan, Matthew C. Waxman

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Rationales For Detention: Security Threats And Intelligence Value, Ryan Goodman Aug 2009

Rationales For Detention: Security Threats And Intelligence Value, Ryan Goodman

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.