The Law of War Above the Fold

Lieber Society on the Law of Armed Conflict

American Society of International Law, Annual Meeting 

Rapid Response Format Panel

April 10, 2015, 11:00 a.m. 12:30 p.m. • Room: Columbia C

Description

After highlighting a number of scenarios from current armed conflicts that have been featured in prominent recent news stories (at the time of the conference), speakers will identify the relevant international humanitarian law, international criminal law, or international human rights law doctrines implicated, and argue for or against a specific position posed by the moderator concerning that issue and that scenario. The panel will aim to use real-life scenarios to illustrate broader dilemmas in IHL and issues that blogs and the media may not be covering with sufficient nuance from an international law perspective.

Participants

• Pnina Sharvit Baruch, Institute for National Security Studies
• Hina Shamsi, American Civil Liberties Union
• Sean Watts, Senior Fellow at the NATO Collective Cyber Defense Center of Excellence
• Robin Geiss, University of Glasgow School of Law
• Naz Modirzadeh, Director, Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, Harvard Law School (Moderator)

Photo credit: m01229, “Newseum newspaper headlines,” CC BY 2.0.