Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Non finito: Should the Study also Identify Norms that Are not Custom?

Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Non finito: Should the Study also Identify Norms that Are not Custom?

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...
Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Study 2.0 Featuring the Martens Clause: Tool Rather Than Subject

Revisiting Customary IHL Series – Study 2.0 Featuring the Martens Clause: Tool Rather Than Subject

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...
Cross-Linkages between Non-Adverse Derogation and Non-Renunciation of Rights in Modern IHL

Cross-Linkages between Non-Adverse Derogation and Non-Renunciation of Rights in Modern IHL

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...
Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct

Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct

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,...
Interpreting the Law of Self-Defense

Interpreting the Law of Self-Defense

Interpreting the Law of Self-Defense The 13 June 2025 Israeli attack (Operation Rising Lion) on Iranian nuclear and military infrastructure, as well as senior military leaders and nuclear scientists, sparked a sophisticated debate over the parameters of the...
On Robert Kolb’s Advanced Introduction to International Humanitarian Law, Second Edition

On Robert Kolb’s Advanced Introduction to International Humanitarian Law, Second Edition

On Robert Kolb’s Advanced Introduction to International Humanitarian Law, Second Edition This post provides select reflections based upon the experience of writing the second edition of my book, Advanced Introduction to International Humanitarian Law (Edward Elgar...