The Lawfare Podcast: A Band-Aid for a Bomber: Is Medical Assistance to Terrorists Protected Under IHL?
On this week\u2019s Lawfare Podcast, Ben sits\xa0down with Professor Gabriella Blum, professor at Harvard Law School,\xa0and Dustin Lewis, a senior researcher at Harvard Law Schools\u2019 Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, to discuss their new report written with Naz Modirzadeh entitled\xa0Medical Care in Armed Conflict: IHL and State Responses to Terrorism.\xa0The conversation takes a look at\xa0whether we should consider medical care a form of illegitimate support to terrorists. Their argument? We shouldn't, because\xa0IHL lays down extensive protections for medical care, and those protections\xa0in many instances should also constrain domestic material support cases. Yet the authors make clear that in their view, there's also\xa0more to be done, as there are gaps and weaknesses in the protections afforded by IHL itself. \xa0\xa0
Lawfare\xa0ran a summary of the report earlier this week, which you can read\xa0here.\xa0
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