Very much enjoyed discussing proportionality with some amazing colleagues last week at the annual colloquium of the Swiss Society of ISMLLW to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the Geneva Conventions. Thanks to The GCSP for hosting.

Professor Tom Dannenbaum provides detailed account of the current humanitarian situation in Gaza, the war crime of starvation, and legal implications for States to use their leverage to reverse the trajectory. justsecurity.org/104867/gaza-st…

back to this

teaching unable or unwilling later today

fair point

LOAC question of the day: are prisoner of war camps (a) civilian objects liable to qualify as military objectives (b) military objectives by nature or (c) subject to special protection?

work from home day?

popped down to University of Exeter Library to pick up a book

How you fight matters too

Hybrid CoE's Jukka Savolainen commented the damages to #submarine data cables under #BalticSea and Danish Navy's potential stopping of the suspected Chinese ship. - It is good that the situation has now been addressed. Now this can be clarified. Link👇 hs.fi/tutkiva/art-20…

why am I not surprised

China is laying the legal groundwork to seize Taiwan … Bonnie Glaser / 葛來儀 and I lay out our concerns about how PRC legal warfare is setting the stage to control Taiwan and prevent other states from intervening. thehill.com/opinion/intern…