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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...
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Robert Kolb
| 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...
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Dan E. Stigall
| 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,...
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Robert Kolb
| 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...
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 7, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, History of LOAC, Law of Armed Conflict, Targeting
Judging Battlefield Conduct Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article-length work, “The Rule of Law in Armed Conflict” published in volume 34 of the Minnesota Journal of International Law (2025). The rule of law is an appraisal concept that purports to...
