Tuesday, May 14, 2024
5:30 pm
International Humanitarian Law in Contemporary Armed Conflicts
An esteemed panel of experts will discuss the key principles that govern the conduct of hostilities, providing a framework to better understand the challenges of contemporary armed conflicts.
- A brief overview of the history and central features of international humanitarian law
- Special challenges of modern and urban warfare, as reflected in recent experience in Mosul, Fallujah, Gaza, Yemen, and Bucha
- Mechanisms of review and accountability
Program Co-chairs: Diana Haladey and Solomon Shinerock
Moderator: Mary Boies
Panelists:
- John Bellinger, former Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of State
- Colonel Joshua Berry, Managing Director Lieber Institute, deputy head of the Law Department at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point), and Constitutional & Military Law Course Director
- Judge Mary McGowan Davis, former NYS judge, and former Chair, UN Committee of Independent Experts (2008/9) and UN Independent Commission of Inquiry (2014) Gaza Conflict
- Professor Robert Goldman, American University, Washington College of Law, and Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists
- Michel Paradis, adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, and former U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commission Defense Organization
- Bruce Rashkow, former Office of the Legal Adviser, US Department of State; former UN Office of Legal Affairs; and former U.S. Mission to the UN
- Major John Spencer, Ret., Chair of Urban Warfare Studies at the Modern War Institute, U.S. Military Academy (West Point)
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