A recent decision from the Southern District of New York serves as a timely reminder that proportionality is a key gatekeeping principle shaping the scope of discovery. Over the past decade, ...

Today Lawfire ® contributor (and LENS conference speaker) Professor Geoff Corn briefly introduces his new article, “Proportionality: Can’t Live With It But Can’t Live Without It” in which he grapples ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jill Goldenziel writes & consults on security, law, & business risk. Proportionality in war does not mean balancing number of ...

Today’s post is by my friend Professor Geoff Corn, who many Lawfire ® readers will recognize as one of the nation’s foremost law of armed conflict authorities. As is so often the case, he has written ...

The hoary doctrine of “proportionality” from the “just war” theory is being sorely tested by the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine. The premise of this theory, as first expounded in the West by ...

This Article challenges the conventional moral justification for the international humanitarian law (IHL) principle of proportionality and the collateral damage that this principle permits in war. It ...

The war in Gaza has generated significant debate on myriad IHL issues, ranging from the antiquated practice of siege warfare to the modern use of artificial intelligence (AI) in targeting. Underlying ...

“That ratio is tremendously positive,” said Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman Jonathan Conricus when asked in December 2023 about Israel’s assessment that its military had killed two Palestinian ...

More than a month after Hamas fighters killed 1,400 Israelis in a shock assault, bombs continue to fall on the Gaza Strip in reprisal Israeli attacks. The aerial campaign has left a heavy death toll – ...