In an effort to destroy ISIS, beginning in August 2014, the United States, assisted by a handful of other Western and Arab countries, carried out thousands of bombing sorties and cruise missile attacks against ISIS targets in Iraq and Syria. Iraq had consented to the airstrikes in its territory, but Syria had not, and Russia blocked the UN Security Council from authorizing force against ISIS in Syria. The United States invoked several different legal arguments to justify its airstrikes, including the right of humanitarian intervention, the right to use force in a failed state, and the right of hot pursuit, before finally settling on self-defense. Use of force in self-defense has traditionally not been viewed as lawful against non-state acto...
The U.S. military response to the 9/11 attacks has expanded into a “global war” without a definite g...
LL.M. (International Law)Abstract: The United Nations Security Council has declared that Islamic Sta...
This Article examines the potential for war-crime charges against members of ISIS for “culture crime...
Full-text is available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/1638/ In an ef...
Shortly after the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the Islamic terror group ISIS captured the worl...
Johan D. van der Vyver analyzes efforts to respond to acts of violence committed by ISIL and its suc...
In the years since the 1999 NATO airstrikes on Serbia to prevent ethnic cleansing of the Kosovar Alb...
The article examines whether the April 2018 airstrikes against Syria may have constituted a tipping ...
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.M...
Written as the decade-long Syria conflict nears an end, this is the first book-length treatment of h...
Last week, the United Kingdom’s parliament voted to once again intervene militarily in Iraq in order...
This is the panel on the use of defensive force against non-state actors. We thought we would use th...
This article examines how terror non-states, such as ISIS and Boko Haram, blur the distinctions betw...
This article examines from a legal and historical perspective (a) the United States’ implicit ratifi...
The Syrian conflict brings warfare to a new level where jihadists have evolved from small terrorist ...
The U.S. military response to the 9/11 attacks has expanded into a “global war” without a definite g...
LL.M. (International Law)Abstract: The United Nations Security Council has declared that Islamic Sta...
This Article examines the potential for war-crime charges against members of ISIS for “culture crime...
Full-text is available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/faculty_publications/1638/ In an ef...
Shortly after the beginning of the Syrian Civil War, the Islamic terror group ISIS captured the worl...
Johan D. van der Vyver analyzes efforts to respond to acts of violence committed by ISIL and its suc...
In the years since the 1999 NATO airstrikes on Serbia to prevent ethnic cleansing of the Kosovar Alb...
The article examines whether the April 2018 airstrikes against Syria may have constituted a tipping ...
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the link in this record.M...
Written as the decade-long Syria conflict nears an end, this is the first book-length treatment of h...
Last week, the United Kingdom’s parliament voted to once again intervene militarily in Iraq in order...
This is the panel on the use of defensive force against non-state actors. We thought we would use th...
This article examines how terror non-states, such as ISIS and Boko Haram, blur the distinctions betw...
This article examines from a legal and historical perspective (a) the United States’ implicit ratifi...
The Syrian conflict brings warfare to a new level where jihadists have evolved from small terrorist ...
The U.S. military response to the 9/11 attacks has expanded into a “global war” without a definite g...
LL.M. (International Law)Abstract: The United Nations Security Council has declared that Islamic Sta...
This Article examines the potential for war-crime charges against members of ISIS for “culture crime...