Lisa M. Cohen

Lisa M. Cohen is a PhD Candidate and Research Associate at Ruhr University Bochum’s Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict.

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Is ‘Cyberwar’ Fought with Weapons?

How do – and should – we classify offensive cyber capabilities? Particularly in the context of international humanitarian law, the question whether offensive cyber capabilities are weapons, means of warfare,...

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Livestream: COVID-19 Vaccinations and Human Rights

Lisa M. Cohen Rouven Diekjobst Marko Milanovic Iris Goldner Lang Spyridoula (Sissy) Katsoni

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated political, academic, and societal debates for the past one and a half years. As soon as they became available in late 2020, COVID-19 vaccines...

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Livestream: The COVID-19 Vaccination Gap, Human Rights, and Patent Waivers

Lisa M. Cohen Rouven Diekjobst Diane A. Desierto Ruth L. Okediji Matthew M. Kavanagh

The COVID-19 pandemic has dominated political, academic, and societal debates for the past one and a half years and been a dramatic reminder of the fact that health is a...

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Can Bangladesh preserve the Brahmaputra?

Disputes between riparian states over their shared freshwater resources are as old as time and China and India have long been engaged in a race to exploit the Brahmaputra. The...

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The new era of disinformation wars

While the manipulation of photographs has traditionally been deemed a State intelligence privilege, today’s technological evolution allows anyone to effortlessly modify digital material – deepfakes being the newest, and arguably...