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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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 ...

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 ...

This Article challenges the conventional moral justification for the international humanitarian law (IHL) principle of proportionality and the collateral damage that this principle permits in war. It ...

This article is part of our joint symposium with EJIL: Talk! on Chatham House’s “Proportionality in the Conduct of Hostilities” Report. Chatham House’s research paper by Emanuela-Chiara Gillard, ...

The war in Gaza has generated significant debate on myriad IHL issues, ranging from the antiquated practice of siege warfare to the modern use of artificial intelligence (AI) in targeting. Underlying ...