By Dr Samuel White

Books

White S; Fazli I, 2025, Pax Britannica: Tracing Customary War Crimes in the Age of Empire, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004515987

White S, 2021, Keeping the Peace of the Realm, LexisNexis, Sydney, Australia, https://store.lexisnexis.com/en-au/products/keeping-the-peace-of-the-realm.html

Book Chapters

White S; Stubbs M, 2025, 'Building Social Resilience', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 117 - 127, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_9

Stephens D; Stubbs M; White S, 2025, 'Conclusion', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 207 - 209, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_15

White S; Watford E, 2025, 'Corporate Legal Responses to Promote Resilience', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 159 - 174, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_12

Stephens D; Stubbs M; White S, 2025, 'Introduction', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_1

White S; Giatrakos S, 2025, 'People Power—A Resilience Work Force', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 105 - 115, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_8

White S, 2025, 'Resilience of the Prerogative', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 147 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_11

White S, 2025, 'The Usefulness of International Law', in Digital Resilience International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, pp. 7 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_2

White S; Stephenson P, 2025, 'Calling Out the Military in Australia: Constitutional, Prerogative and Statutory Powers', in White S; Stubbs M (ed.), Executive Power and the Royal Prerogative in the Commonwealth, LexisNexis, Sydney, Australia, pp. 197 - 220

Stephens D; Stubbs M; White S, 2025, 'Introduction', in Digital Resilience, Springer Nature, pp. 1 - 6, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2_1

White S, 2024, 'Mongol Laws of War', in International Humanitarian Law Series, pp. 33 - 56, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004512566_004

White S; Kerkhove R, 2021, 'Indigenous Australians', in White S (ed.), The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars: From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, pp. 3 - 43, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464292_003

White S; Kerkhove R, 2021, 'The Aztecs', in White S (ed.), The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars: From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, pp. 69 - 100, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464292_005

White S, 2021, 'The Late Middle Ages in Northern Europe', in White S (ed.), The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, pp. 101 - 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464292_006

Edited Books

White S, (ed.), 2026, The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 5: Central and South Asian Perspectives, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004702721

White S; Stubbs M; Blake D, (eds.), 2026, The Issue of Dual Use in Space: Balancing Innovation, Law and Security, Springer, Singapore, https://link.springer.com/book/9789819217953

White S; Stubbs M, (ed.), 2026, Australian Perspectives on Executive Power, Federation Press, Sydney, Australia, https://federationpress.com.au/product/australian-perspectives-on-executive-power/

White S; Stubbs M, (ed.), 2025, Executive Power and the Royal Prerogative in the Commonwealth, LexisNexis, Sydney, Australia, https://store.lexisnexis.com/en-au/products/executive-power-and-the-royal-prerogative-in-the-commonwealth.html

White S, (ed.), 2025, The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 4: From Mesopotamia to Somalia, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004703094

Stephens D; Stubbs M; White S, (eds.), 2025, Digital Resilience: International and Domestic Legal Responses to Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, Springer, Singapore, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9746-2

White S, (ed.), 2024, The Laws of Yesterday's Wars 3: From the Highlands of Papua New Guinea to the Island of Malta, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004512566

White S, (ed.), 2022, The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 2: From Ancient India to East Africa, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004473218

White S, (ed.), 2021, The Laws of Yesterday's Wars: From Indigenous Australians to the American Civil War, Brill Nijhoff, Leiden, The Netherlands; Boston, United States of America, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464292

Journal articles

White S, 2026, 'Origins of the Just War: Military Ethics and Culture in the Ancient Near East', GLOBAL INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, 11, pp. 473 - 481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/23801883.2024.2387290

White S, 2026, 'Introduction', International Humanitarian Law Series, 75, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004703094_002

White S, 2026, 'The Fragile Firewall: Sovereignty, Non-intervention, and the Problem of Coercion', Asian Journal of Law and Society, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/als.2026.10054

White S, 2026, 'Challenging Narratives: New Perspectives on Authority, Identity, and Colonial Australia', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 111, pp. 7 - 11

White S, 2025, 'Reading the Royal Email', Royal Studies Journal, 12, pp. 206 - 254, http://dx.doi.org/10.21039/rsj.416

White S, 2025, 'War without limits: How sharp war theory is a historical anomaly', International Review of the Red Cross, 107, pp. 335 - 354, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1816383124000328

White S; Fazli I, 2024, 'Pax Britannica: a case study of pre-Hague Imperial laws of war', Military Law and the Law of War Review, 62, pp. 143 - 188, http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/mllwr.2024.02.01

White S, 2024, 'Virus, weapon, litter, industry: Generative metaphors that shape policy around emerging threats', Alternative Law Journal, 49, pp. 142 - 148, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1037969X241253472

White SCD, 2024, 'Introduction', International Humanitarian Law Series, 67, pp. 1 - 7, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004512566_002

White S, 2024, 'Act of State in the Grey Zone', JOURNAL OF MILITARY AND STRATEGIC STUDIES, 23, pp. 115 - 139

White S, 2024, 'International Law on a Contested Continent', International Journal of Regional, Rural and Remote Law and Policy, 11, pp. 12 - 21

White S, 2024, 'The Military History of Sydney Town', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 110, pp. 117 - 119

White SCD, 2023, '(Flint)lock, stock and two smoking barrels: A modern military interpretation of frontier economic warfare', Historical Encounters, 10, pp. 52 - 62, http://dx.doi.org/10.52289/hej10.205

White S; Hofmann B; Liddy J, 2023, 'NEITHER SUPERIOR NOR SUBORDINATE: AN EXPLORATION OF THE MILITARY JURISDICTION IN DOMESTIC OPERATIONS', Adelaide Law Review, 44, pp. 441 - 502

White S, 2023, 'Rusty Weapons in a Digital Battlespace', University of Queensland Law Journal, 42, pp. 251 - 276, http://dx.doi.org/10.38127/uqlj.v42i2.7525

White S; Yeats C, 2023, 'A New Direction: Editorial Comments on the JRAHS', Journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society, 109, pp. 1 - 2

White S; Thomas M, 2023, 'Closing the (National Security) Gap', Journal of Information Warfare, 22, pp. 16 - 30

White S; Giatrakos S, 2023, 'Commanding the Trend: A Legal Analysis', Journal of Information Warfare, 22, pp. 99 - 114

White S; Giatrakos S, 2023, 'Commanding the Trend: A Policy Analysis', Journal of Information Warfare, 22, pp. 89 - 98

Watford E; White S, 2023, 'I Know Who You Are: The Need for a Uniform Australian Definition of Biometric Data', AUSTRALIAN LAW JOURNAL, 97

White S, 2023, 'Pacta Sunt Servanda: Distilling a Fundamental Humanitarian Principle through Australia's Colonisation', Australian International Law Journal, 30, pp. 99 - 136

, 2022, 'The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars 2', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004473218

White S; Moore C, 2022, 'CALLING OUT THE ADF INTO THE GREY ZONE', Adelaide Law Review, 43, pp. 479 - 505

, 2022, 'The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars', , http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004464292

White S, 2022, 'Digital Payback: How Indigenous Australian Thinking Can Stabilise a Global Rules-Based Order', Australian Journal of Defence and Strategic Studies, 4, pp. 235 - 258

White S, 2022, 'Taking the King's Hard Bargain', Australian Law Journal, 96, pp. 666 - 686

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