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At the outset of the invasion, analysts doubted Ukraine’s likelihood of winning a war against Russia. But as the conflict enters its second year, Ukraine’s resistance prompts a challenge to revisionist and traditionalist conceptions of “just war”—specifically, for the condition of “success.”
The warrants for the arrest of Vladimir Putin and Maria Alekseyevna Lvova-Belova were for alleged war crimes relating to the deportation of children during the War in Ukraine.
If the U.S. government hopes to retain domestic support for its efforts in Ukraine and ensure that weapons are not diverted to other conflict contexts, it must develop robust and innovative monitoring mechanisms.
If the United States confiscates Russian state assets and transfers them to Ukraine, it should reserve a portion to compensate the people who have obtained valid legal judgments against Russia for misconduct that led to the present crisis.
The 1994 Budapest Memorandum was purposefully designed to be ambiguous to allow its signatories to achieve significant goals. It is an important tool in the discourse on the current war waged by Russia in violation of the memorandum.
In trying to develop a long-term solution to ending Russia’s attacks on the Ukrainian nuclear power plant and preventing catastrophe in the future, nations should take lessons from Africa’s Treaty of Pelindaba.
On Dec. 21, Zelenskyy’s will address a joint session Congress in Washington, D.C.
There is currently no international legal regime that compensates civilians whose property, bodies, or lives are destroyed in armed conflicts. Russia’s war in Ukraine might provide the needed political impetus to create a permanent “war torts” institution.
The Winter 2022 Supplement for Bradley, Deeks, & Goldsmith, Foreign Relations Law: Cases and Materials (7th ed. 2020) is now available on Lawfare.
There is an extreme difference in the morale of the Ukrainian troops as compared to the Russian troops, one that is worth noting and is best understood in a historical context.