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Rory Cox
| Feb 11, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Hittite Laws of War Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s fourth edited volume of Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction to the series, see Dr...
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Samuel White
| Feb 9, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction The Laws of Yesterday’s Wars series began with what I assumed was an idle question, almost a thought experiment. While watching a dramatized Viking raid on television, I wondered whether the brutality on screen could...
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Robert Kolb
| Jan 23, 2026 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict
Lexical Imperfections in the Hague Regulations of 1907 The Hague Regulations (HR) annexed to the 1907 Hague Convention (IV) respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land were the first reasonably general codification of the law of war (as it was then called) in...
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Dan E. Stigall
| 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...
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Dan E. Stigall
| 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...
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Robert Kolb
| 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...
