JIB/JAB Podcast

Dec 27 2024 40 ep. 66 mins 65
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A podcast about the various legal regimes that govern the use of force and armed conflict - in short, the laws of war.

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Episode 40 - Harold Hongju Koh: The National Security Constitution & The Trump Administration

Dec 27 2024 73 mins  
Harold Hongju Koh of Yale Law School discusses his new book, The National Security Constitution for the 21st Century, which examines the structural and systemic reasons for the dangerously increased strength of the executive branch of government in the U.S., and its implications for American use of force, foreign relations, and international law. We discuss not only the evolution a

Episode 39 - Dill & Haque: IHL and the IDF's Conduct of Hostilities in Gaza

Aug 15 2024 94 mins  
Janina Dill of the University of Oxford and Adil Haque of Rutgers Law School return to the podcast to address the question of whether it is possible now, while hostilities are still ongoing, to assess whether some aspects of the IDF's conduct of hostilities may be in violation of IHL. The question is germane because many argue that one cannot assess such violations until all of the

JIB/JAB - Episode 38: Brunk and Hakimi on The Prohibition Against Annexations

Jul 19 2024 66 mins  
A conversation with Professors Ingrid Brunk of Vanderbilt University Law School and Monica Hakimi of Columbia University Law School, about their forthcoming article on the prohibitions against annexations - a prohibition that is related to and often conflated with the prohibition agains the use of force, but which is distinct and important. We discuss the origins and operation of t

JIB/JAB - Episode 37: Martin and Hafetz on "Eye in the Sky"

Feb 06 2024 70 mins  
In a cross-posted episode I discuss with Jonathan Hafetz, host of the Law on Film podcast, and professor of law at Seton Hall Law School, the film "Eye in the Sky" - a 2015 film about a British and U.S. operated drone strike against al Shabaab terrorists in Kenya, which intelligently and engagingly explores the legal, ethical, philosophical, political, and strategic issues raised b

JIB/JAB - Episode 36: Hakimi, Haque, and Milanovic on Self-Defense in Gaza

Dec 20 2023 85 mins  
A round-table discussion with Professors Monika Hakimi of Columbia Law School, Adil Haque of Rutgers Law School, and Marko Milanovic of Reading Univ. School of Law, on the question of whether Israel has a right of self-defense under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter in response to the Hamas attacks on October 7. The incident raises, and we explore, important questions about the scope

JIB/JAB - Episode 35: Dannenbaum on Sieges, the War Crime of Starvation, and Gaza

Nov 07 2023 76 mins  
A discussion with Tom Dannenbaum, a professor of international law at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, on his work on the war crime of starvation. We delve into the proper interpretation of the IHL prohibition on starvation as a method of warfare, and the war crime of intentionally using starvation of civilians as a method of warfare in the Rome Statute of the ICC, consider

JIB/JAB - Episode 34: O'Meara - Necessity and Proportionality in Self-Defence

Apr 17 2023 73 mins  
A discussion with Chris O'Meara, Lecturer at Exeter University Law School, about his new book, "Necessity and Proportionality and the Right of Self-Defence In International Law." Chris explains his novel taxonomy for the principle of necessity, and how the relationship among necessity, proportionality, and imminence should be properly understood, and we delve into some of the poten

JIB/JAB - Episode 33: Provost on Rebel Courts

Feb 14 2023 80 mins  
A conversation with René Provost, professor of law at McGill University, Faculty of Law, in Montreal, about his recent book "Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents." We discuss the methodology he employed in researching this deep and rich ethnography of rebel courts in conflicts ranging from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, to Sri Lanka, Colombia, and the DRC.

JIB/JAB - Episode 32: Boyd Van Dijk on the Making of the Geneva Conventions

Oct 03 2022 64 mins  
A conversation with Boyd van Dijk, currently a McKenzie Fellow at the University of Melbourne in Australia, about his new book, Preparing for War: The Making of the Geneva Conventions. We discuss some of the myths surrounding the history of the conventions, as well as the tensions and conflicts not just between parties to the negotiations, but also within delegations, caused by con

JIB/JAB - Episode 31: Leila Sadat on Crimes Against Humanity

Aug 06 2022 59 mins  
A conversation with Leila Sada, Professor of Law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, United States, and special advisor on crimes against humanity to the Prosecutor of the ICC. We discuss the decade long effort to establish a new international convention to prohibit and punish crimes against humanity, the role and limitations of the ICC in governing crimes against