Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Reading the Lieber Code as Strategic Lawfare Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s edited volumes Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Dharma and Ancient Indian Military Laws in the Mahābhārata

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Dharma and Ancient Indian Military Laws in the Mahābhārata

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Dharma and Ancient Indian Military Laws in the Mahābhārata Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s edited volumes Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general...
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction

Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Introduction There is a mythology, easily rebuffed, that the laws of war started with the Lieber Code. While General Orders No. 100 guided and shaped the modern law of armed conflict (LOAC) or international humanitarian law (IHL),...