by Julia Grignon | Sep 21, 2022
The “General Close of Military Operations” and the End of Armed Conflicts The temporal scope of applicability of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) or Law of Armed Conflict (LoAC) – terms I use interchangeably in this post – has long been of personal scholarly...
by William Casey Biggerstaff | Aug 29, 2022
Ukraine Symposium – Photos of the Dead As the death toll in the war between Russia and Ukraine climbs, the issue of how to properly treat the remains of dead soldiers has become a recurring theme (see, e.g., here and here). Some media reports claim, for example, that...
by Kubo Mačák, Mikhail Orkin | Aug 15, 2022
Who Is Protected by the Fourth Geneva Convention? The Case of Civilians in Invaded Territory Since the 19th century, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has produced a long line of commentaries explaining the core treaties of international humanitarian...
by Jelena Pejic | Mar 7, 2022
The Other Side of Civilian Protection: The 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention The initial stage of an international armed conflict, such as the one in Ukraine, inevitably focuses international attention on the conduct of hostilities. This is to be expected, given the...
by Sean Watts | Dec 15, 2020
Interpretation in the Updated GCIII Commentary The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) Updated Commentary to the Third Geneva Convention is a remarkable feat of scholarship worthy of serious academic attention. It leaves almost no interpretive stone...
