As part of an effort to apply international humanitarian law to the analysis of recent and on-going conflicts, we will periodically commission new essays that will examine specific crimes and events in armed conflicts journalistically, while bringing to bear the conceptual framework of international humanitarian law.

• The Arab-Israeli Conflict and the Laws of War: Expert Analysis interviews by Mark Dennis
• The Pinochet Precedent: Who Could be Arrested Next? by Marguerite Feitzlowitz
  
• The Pinochet Prosecution: Gains, Losses, Lessons by Marguerite Feitlowitz
  • The Genocide Controversy by Marguerite Feitlowitz
  • Timelines of the case from The BBC and from Publica
    
• Chechnya and the Law — A survey of legal opinion
  
  • Special Report by Oleg Orlav
  • Special Report by Diederick Lohman
    
• Kosovo: Case Study by Jennifer Leaning
• Rights of Prisoners of War—US Soldiers in Kosovo by H. Wayne Eliott, S.J.D
  
• East Timor by Jose Vegar
  
• Humanitarian Intervention — Some key statements, edited by Chris Walker
  

The following essays were adapted from the book Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know (W.W. Norton, 1999).

• Categories of War Crimes by Steven R. Ratner
  
• Civil War by A.P.V Rogers
  Article 3 common to the Four Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949
  
• Crimes against Humanity by M. Cherif Bassiouni
  
• Deportations by Roy Gutman
  
• Genocide by Diane F. Orentlicher
  
• Mass Graves by Elizabeth Neuffer
  
• NATO and the Geneva Conventions by Roy Gutman
  
• United Nations and the Geneva Conventions by Roy Gutman