Latest Publications

Business and Human Rights in Armed Conflicts and the Competition for Natural Resources

Business, Human Rights and Natural Resource Governance: Accountability for a Just Transition · Hart Publishing

R. Pereira, A. Savaresi, & L. McConnel, eds.

Applying and Interpreting the Law of Armed Conflict: Contributions by the UN Commissions on the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of South Sudan

Lieber Studies Series (Vol. 10), Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict · Oxford University Press

Sandesh Sivakumaran & Christian R. Burne, eds.

From Documentation to Prevention: Spatial Analysis, AI, and Starvation Crimes

Disasters journal · Special Issue: Technology in Turbulent Times: Rethinking the Digital Transformation of Humanitarian Crisis Response · Wiley

Advancing the Rule of Law and Human Rights Protection through United Nations Mandated Mechanisms: The Cases of the Syrian Arab Republic and the State of Libya

Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (Vol. 24) · Brill | Nijhoff

Minding the Gap, Properly: Conflict Classification, Protected Persons, and What the Geneva Conventions Already Require (Part II/II)

Opinio Juris

Minding the Gap, Properly: Conflict Classification, Protected Persons, and What the Geneva Conventions Already Require (Part I/II)

Opinio Juris

Applying a Systems Lens to Starvation as a Method of Warfare

Beyond Compliance Consortium · Armed Groups and International Law · Featured Post

Rohingya Hunger as State Policy: Food Deprivation and the Question of Genocide

Tufts University · Fletcher School of Global Affairs · World Peace Foundation

Reframing Medical Deprivation Within the Starvation War Crime Paradigm

Tufts University · Fletcher School of Global Affairs · World Peace Foundation

Engineered Exodus: Iran's Role in Syria's Forced Displacement

Atlantic Council

After ISIS: Insights into Post-war Gaza Humanitarian Camps

International Centre for Counter-Terrorism

Transnational Atrocity-by-Proxy: The Case for a Human Rights Council Inquiry into the Wagner Group

Armed Groups and International Law · Featured Post

Israeli officials are accused of weaponizing starvation in Gaza. Here's what you need to know.

Atlantic Council | New Atlanticist

Gaza Arrest Warrants: Assessing Starvation as a Method of Warfare and Associated Starvation Crimes

Just Security

The Directive to Evacuate Northern Gaza: Advance Warning or Forced Displacement?

Just Security

Included in the International Humanitarian Law: Syllabus Supplements, 19 December 2025

The Nexus Between Starvation Crimes and Sexual Violence: Indicia of On-going Extermination in Tigray, Ethiopia

Opinio Juris · Featured Post

Population Transfers and the Civilian Toll of Starvation as a Method of Warfare in Syria and South Sudan

Opinio Juris · Pandemic of Hunger Symposium

Preserving Evidence of ISIL Atrocities: The International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism

Oxford Human Rights Hub

U.N. General Assembly High-Level Week 2024: What Experts Are Looking For

Just Security

Response to the call for input made by the Special Rapporteur on the right to food, Michael Fakhri (Human Rights and Starvation, with an emphasis on the Palestinian People's Food Sovereignty)

United Nations

Cited by the Special Rapporteur in his report to the U.N. General Assembly (U.N. Doc. A/79/171)

Top Experts' Views of Int'l Court of Justice Ruling on Israel Gaza Operations (South Africa v Israel, Genocide Convention Case)

Just Security

Top Legal Experts on Why Aid to Gaza Can't Be Conditioned on Hostage Release

Just Security · 23 in 2023: Most-Read Just Security Articles of the Year

International Humanitarian Law: Syllabus Supplements

Just Security

Includes my article, The Directive to Evacuate Northern Gaza: Advance Warning or Forced Displacement?, as assigned reading on civilian protection law, accompanied by a discussion prompt on forced displacement and persecution

Gendering Mass Starvation

World Peace Foundation · Seminar Outcome Report

Engages with my legal framework for analysing starvation as a method of warfare and objects indispensable to the survival of the civilian population (pp. 29–32)

Starvation as a Weapon: The ICJ Myanmar Case Could Redefine Genocide

Lowy Institute · The Interpreter

Engages with my analysis that food deprivation and the systematic destruction of the Rohingya food system should receive substantive consideration under Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention in The Gambia v. Myanmar

International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent and Provisional Measures

American Journal of International Law · Tom Dannenbaum & Janina Dill

Cites my analysis of starvation as a method of warfare in Gaza in its discussion of belligerent intent and the intentional starvation of civilians as a method of warfare