The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part II

The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part II

by | Oct 3, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC

The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part II Editors’ note: This is the second in a two-part post illustrating the impact of French legal thought on the formation of the law of war with a specific focus on the...
The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part I

The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part I

by | Oct 1, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC

The Rousseau-Portalis Doctrine: French Legal Thought and the Law of War – Part I Editors’ note: This is the first in a two-part post illustrating the impact of French legal thought on the formation of the law of war with a specific focus on the Rousseau-Portalis...
Gravitational Points of the 19th Century Law of War

Gravitational Points of the 19th Century Law of War

by | Sep 2, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC

Gravitational Points of the 19th Century Law of War When considering today’s armed conflicts, it may be interesting to devote a glimpse to the systematic pillars on which the 19th century law of war was constructed. On what main strands was that law erected and...
The 1892 Conferences on the Law of War published by Antoine Pillet

The 1892 Conferences on the Law of War published by Antoine Pillet

by | Jul 29, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC

The 1892 Conferences on the Law of War published by Antoine Pillet From 1891 to 1892, Antoine Pillet, a prolific and eminent French professor of international law, was invited to teach a course on the law of war to the garrison officers at Grenoble, France. His...
Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct

Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct

by | Jul 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Interpretation & Development

Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct The nature of the legal pluriverse (“the plurality of existing normative orders”) remains a subject of debate. Monists view international law and domestic law as forming a single legal order. Dualists, on the other hand,...
International Humanitarian Law and the Law of Treaties

International Humanitarian Law and the Law of Treaties

by | May 19, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict

International Humanitarian Law and the Law of Treaties The International Law Commission has codified the law of treaties under the benevolent assumption that the drafting and implementation of all treaties, of whatever type, should follow the rules adopted in the 1969...