The current conflict between Israel and Hamas raises a host of legal questions about the application of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC). One of the major criticisms raised against Israel is that its ...

JURIST Guest Columnist Dr. Barry A. Feinstein, a Senior Lecturer in International Law at the School of Law of Netanya Academic College in Israel, says that it is imperative to conduct a ...

Derren Chan is a 3L student at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia (CA) and a law student at the University of Hong Kong. Derren previously served as JURIST’s Hong ...

Let's face it: No one went to law school dreaming of one day preparing a privilege log, much less one with hundreds or thousands of entries. But with the vast volumes of electronically stored ...

If all civilian lives are morally equal, as international law holds, then the lives of civilians on both sides of a conflict should be treated with the same degree of respect. (Photo by Sameh Rahmi / ...

The conflict in Gaza is replete with asymmetries: the number of civilian casualties on either side, the amount of destruction, the types of weapons used and technological capabilities of the Israel ...

The calls for a new international legal instrument to ban or restrict cluster munitions derive in large part from the weapons’ significant and foreseeably grave aftereffects on civilians, 1 which have ...

On June 27, President Joe Biden ordered airstrikes on targets associated with Iranian-backed militias in both Syria and Iraq. The Pentagon executed similar strikes last February. On both occasions, ...

It’s been over two years since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) were amended to refine e-discovery practices in litigation. Of the changes, none has spurred more transformation than Rule 26 ...

Free Patriotic Movement leader MP Michel Aoun on Sunday suggested adopting the electoral law proposed by the Orthodox Gathering, under which each sect would elect its own lawmakers, after the ...