The paper is concerned with private military contractors, their expanding use and the challenges this poses to a system in which private actors – at least so far – have been considered to be acting outside of existing international accountability structures. The paper proceeds from a brief...

The article highlights jurisdictional aspects of the International Criminal Court (ICC) – in terms of substance matter jurisdiction, temporal jurisdiction as well as territorial / personal jurisdiction. It furthermore analyzes the limitations on the jurisdiction of the ICC, paying close...

While we know a lot about the behaviour of individual legislative representatives, we have a less developed understanding of what their constituents want them to do. This paper employs a novel survey experiment to examine what British citizens expect from their Member of Parliament. Using a...

The article analyzes the use of autonomous weapon systems (AWS) and the challenges that such systems pose with respect to compliance with the law of armed conflict. Importantly, AWS pose different questions than those surrounding the current use of unmanned aerial systems. For that reason, the...

The 2020 Defence Strategic Update recognises that Australia’s interests are corroded where states evade the rules-based order to carry out subversive ‘grey-zone’ activities in pursuit of interests contrary to Australia’s. Weaponised Trade is a grey zone activity of particular concern for...