Aurel Sari
About/Bio
Dr Aurel Sari is a Professor of Public International Law at the University of Exeter and a Fellow of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe. His work focuses primarily on international conflict and security law and the law relating to military operations. He has published widely on the law of armed conflict, status of forces agreements, peace support operations, international human rights law and the legal aspects of hybrid threats.
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Metaphors, Rules and War: Making Sense of Hybrid Threats and Grey Zone Conflict
January 31, 2025
Aurel Sari
About a decade ago, hybrid warfare made its big breakthrough. The concept had been around for a number of years, but few people knew what it meant and even fewer seemed to care. In 2014, Russia launched the opening act of its ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine, taking control of the Crimean Peninsula. It did so through…
The Duty to Derogate: Suspending Human Rights in a Very Limited and Specific Way?
September 18, 2020
Aurel Sari
Section 12 of the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill currently making its way through the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to consider derogating from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to certain overseas military operations. The duty is the product…
Hybrid Threats and the United States National Security Strategy: Prevailing in an “Arena of Continuous Competition”
The dividing line between war and peace is blurred. This is one of the messages emerging from the National Security Strategy (NSS) of the United States of America adopted in December 2017. The United States is accustomed to viewing the world through the binary lens of war and peace, yet in reality, warns the new National Security…
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Popular articles by Aurel Sari
Jaloud v Netherlands: New Directions in Extra-Territorial Military Operations
November 24, 2014
Aurel Sari
Last week, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in Jaloud v Netherlands. The case arose out of the fatal shooting of Azhar Sabah Jaloud by Dutch troops in the early hours of 21 April 2004 at a checkpoint in Iraq. The applicant claimed that the investigation into the incident was…
The Duty to Derogate: Suspending Human Rights in a Very Limited and Specific Way?
September 18, 2020
Aurel Sari
Section 12 of the Overseas Operations (Service Personnel and Veterans) Bill currently making its way through the United Kingdom (UK) Parliament imposes a duty on the Secretary of State to consider derogating from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in relation to certain overseas military operations. The duty is the product…
Sorry Sir, We’re All Non-State Actors Now: A Reply to Hill-Cawthorne and Akande on the Authority to Kill and Detain in NIAC
May 9, 2014
Aurel Sari
The recent High Court judgment in the case of Serdar Mohammed v. Ministry of Defence [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB) has sparked a lively debate about the authority to detain individuals in the context of a non-international armed conflict (NIAC). In response to a post by Kubo Mačák offering a critical perspective on Mohammed, Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne…