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Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Oct 20, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
A Decisive Moment Concerning Individual Rights and the Law of War? The question of whether individuals can hold rights under international law has hovered at the edges of international jurisprudence for a century. From the Permanent Court of International Justice’s...
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Mark Lattimer
| Oct 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, In Honor of Françoise Hampson, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
In Honor of Françoise Hampson – Calibrating the Balance Between Military Necessity and Humanity in LOAC Practice Editors’ note: This post is part of a series to honor Françoise Hampson, who passed away on April 18, 2025. These posts recognize Professor Hampson’s...
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Mina Radončić
| Sep 24, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Revisiting Customary IHL Series
Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Non finito: Should the Study also Identify Norms that Are not Custom? Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of...
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Paulina Rob
| Sep 22, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict, Revisiting Customary IHL Series
Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Study 2.0 Featuring the Martens Clause: Tool Rather Than Subject Editors’ note: This post is part of a series relating to the ICRC’s Customary International Humanitarian Law Study, featured across Articles of...
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Robert Kolb
| Jul 14, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Cross-Linkages between Non-Adverse Derogation and Non-Renunciation of Rights in Modern IHL Articles 6/6/6/7 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GCs) allow belligerent States to conclude special agreements either to implement their duties under international...
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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,...
