Browsing by Author "Lewis, Dustin"

Armed Non-State Actors and International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the Practice of the U.N. Security Council and U.N. General Assembly

Burniske, Jessica; Modirzadeh, Naz Khatoon; Lewis, Dustin (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2017)

Several significant legal, policy, and practical concerns are at issue in whether armed non-state actors (ANSAs) will ultimately be recognized—by all relevant institutions and actors—as bearing human-rights obligations in ...

Humanitarian Engagement Under Counter Terrorism: a conflict of norms and the emerging policy landscape

Lewis, Dustin Andrew (Cambridge University Press, 2011)

This article identifies two countervailing sets of norms – one promoting humanitarian engagement with non-state armed groups (NSAGs) in armed conflict in order to protect populations in need, and the other prohibiting such ...

Humanitarian Exemptions from Counter-terrorism Measures: A Brief Introduction

Lewis, Dustin (2016-10-20)

Indefinite War: Unsettled International Law on the End of Armed Conflict

Lewis, Dustin Andrew; Blum, Gabriella; Modirzadeh, Naz Khatoon (The Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC), 2017)

Can we say, definitively, when an armed conflict no longer exists under international law? The short, unsatisfying answer is sometimes: it is clear when some conflicts terminate as a matter of international law, but a ...

Jurisdictional Arrangements and International Criminal Procedure

Lewis, Dustin Andrew (University of Cambridge, 2011)

As preparation for a chapter in a book on international criminal procedural law, this working paper analyses the jurisdictional arrangements between international criminal tribunals and domestic courts. Since ‘exclusive’, ...

Medical Care in Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law and State Responses to Terrorism

Lewis, Dustin Andrew; Modirzadeh, Naz Khatoon; Blum, Gabriella (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2015)

The surge in armed conflicts involving terrorism has brought to the fore the general question of medical care in armed conflict and the particular legal protections afforded to those providing such care to terrorists. ...

Quantum of Silence: Inaction and Jus ad Bellum

Lewis, Dustin; Modirzadeh, Naz; Blum, Gabriella (2019)

In this paper, we examine the actual and potential roles of silence as an element of jus ad bellum treaty law and customary international law. By silence, we mean a lack of a publicly discernible response either to conduct ...

Suppressing Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Supporting Principled Humanitarian Action: A Provisional Framework for Analyzing State Practice

Burniske, Jessica; Lewis, Dustin Andrew; Modirzadeh, Naz Khatoon (Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, 2015)

In 2014, reports suggested that a surge of foreign jihadists were participating in armed conflicts in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere. The United Nations Security Council responded by imposing in Resolution 2178 (2014) an array ...