REVUE : "How International Humanitarian Law Develops", International Review of the Red Cross (vol. 104, n°920-921, août 2022)

Bruno DEMEYERE

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (vol. 104, n°920-921, August 2022) is dedicated to the theme "How International Humanitarian Law Develops". 

Editorial

Bruno Demeyere, The power of asking "how" – a key to understanding the development of IHL?

Special Feature

Interview with Peter Maurer: President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (2012-2022)

Interview

How international humanitarian law develops: Towards an ever-greater humanization? An interview with Theodor Meron: Oxford University and NYU (emeritus) and past Judge and President of UN War Crimes Tribunals
Interview with Emily Crawford: Author of Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law (2021)
Interview with Eirini Giorgou: Legal Adviser, ICRC Arms and Conduct of Hostilities Unit

Research Article

Antoon De Baets, The view of the past in international humanitarian law (1860–2020)
Boyd van Dijk, What is IHL history now?
Sarah Jean Mabeza, Tamalin Bolus, Changing the narrative: A Tool on African Traditions and the Preservation of Humanity during War
Tania Ixchel Atilano, The 1871 Mexican Criminal Code as the missing piece in the history of criminalizing violations of the laws of war
Maartje Abbenhuis, Branka Bogdan, Emma Wordsworth, Humanitarian bullets and man-killers: Revisiting the history of arms regulation in the late nineteenth century
Vitaliy Ivanenko, The origins, causes and enduring significance of the Martens Clause: A view from Russia
Andrew Bartles-Smith, Religion and international humanitarian law
Raj Balkaran, A. Walter Dorn, Charting Hinduism's rules of armed conflict: Indian sacred texts and international humanitarian law
Cordula Droege, Eirini Giorgou, How international humanitarian law develops
Christopher Greenwood, The International Court of Justice and the development of international humanitarian law
Marko Milanovic, Sandesh Sivakumaran, Assessing the authority of the ICRC Customary IHL Study: How does IHL develop?
Charlotte Mohr, Ellen Policinski, From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age: The evolution of ICRC legal commentaries
Namira Negm, The African Union's humanitarian policies: A closer look at Africa's regional institutions and practice
Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Going for a test drive? Some observations on the turn to informality in the laws of armed conflict
Jan Hladík, How the Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 contribute to better protection of cultural property
Martin Fink, The ever-existing "crisis" of the law of naval warfare
Rachael Kitching, Anne Quintin, The well-trodden path of national international humanitarian law committees
Oscar G. Macias Betancourt, Implementation of international humanitarian law: The work of Latin American international humanitarian law committees
Frédéric Casier, Laura De Grève, The role of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the development of international humanitarian law: Lessons learned and perspectives based on the Belgian Red Cross experience
Marco Sassòli, How will international humanitarian law develop in the future?
Paul B. Stephan, The crisis in international law and the path forward for international humanitarian law
Michael N. Schmitt, Normative architecture and applied international humanitarian law
Pauline Charlotte Janssens, Jan Wouters, Informal international law-making: A way around the deadlock of international humanitarian law?
Yahli Shereshevsky, International humanitarian law-making and new military technologies
Jann K. Kleffner, The unilateralization of international humanitarian law
Ana Peyró Llopis, The UN75 Declaration, Our Common Agenda and the development of international law

Librarian's Pick

Charlotte Mohr, Decolonization, Self-Determination, and the Rise of Global Human Rights Politics Edited by A. Dirk Moses, Marco Duranti and Roland Burke