The current global coronavirus pandemic is a huge disruption to life in nearly every country and the explanations for it have gotten to the point that they’re as big as the disruption. Rather than ...

More than three years after their implementation, attorneys, courts, and litigants are still learning to navigate the new waters in Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 26. As a result of the 2015 ...

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, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Distinguished chair, excellencies, ladies and gentlemen, The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is grateful for the opportunity to address the Open-Ended Working Group a second time ...

The 2006 Israel-Lebanon war generated the first large-scale and systemA,A!ic references to a heretofore mostly ignored law of war concept, the doctrine of proportionality. Occasional references to ...

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 – ...

The concept, important for determining the legality of an act of war, is about weighing civilian harm against military objectives, not about achieving a balanced number of casualties. By Steven ...