Exploring the application of international law to humanitarian crises and examine the role that the law plays in protecting human security during times of emergency.

2019 Prize

6 February 2020

We pleased to announce the first annual Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies Prize, which recognises the best article by an author under the age of 35 or within 8

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Volume 10(2) published

24 November 2019

Our Volume 10(2) has been published, with contributions from Elina Almila, Pouria Askary & Katayoun Hosseinnejad, Ximena Galvez Lima, Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen, Frédéric Mégret & Chloe Swinden, and Alessandra Michela

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Current Issue: Volume 10(2) (November 2019)

Previous Issue: Volume 10(1) (June 2019)

Editorial

Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford and Rain Liivoja

Articles and Notes

Protecting Children from Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict under International Humanitarian Law:
Discrepancies between Conventions and Practice of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals

Elina Almila

Non-State Courts: Illegal or Conditional?
The Case of Da’esh Courts

Pouria Askary and Katayoun Hosseinnejad

Inked or Not:
Maras and Their Participation in El Salvador’s Recent Armed Conflict

Ximena Galvez Lima

From Knives to Kites:
Developments and Dilemmas around the Use of Force in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict since ‘Protective Edge’

Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen

Returning the ‘Fallen Terrorist’ for Burial in Non-international Armed Conflicts:
The Rights of the Deceased, the Obligations of the State, and the Problem of Collective Punishment

Frédéric Mégret and Chloe Swinden

Book Reviews

The Right to be Present at Trial in International Criminal Law by Caleb H Wheeler

Alessandra Michela De Tommaso

Peer Reviewers of Volume 10

Contents

Publisher’s Note

Editorial

Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford and Rain Liivoja

Articles and Notes

Political Violence and Its Discontents: A Critique of Refugee Status as Purely Civilian and Humanitarian

Ergun Cakal

Revise Your Syllabi: Israeli Supreme Court Upholds Authorization for Torture and Ill-Treatment

Smadar Ben-Natan

Roots of Restraint in War: The Capacities and Limits of Law and the Critical Role of Social Agency in Ameliorating Violence in Armed Conflict

Dale Stephens

Symposium

Editorial – Beyond Killer Robots: Networked Artificial Intelligence Systems Disrupting the Battlefield?

Hin-Yan Liu, Léonard Van Rompaey and Matthijs M Maas

From the Autonomy Framework towards Networks and Systems Approaches for ‘Autonomous’ Weapons Systems

Hin-Yan Liu

Shifting from Autonomous Weapons to Military Networks

Léonard Van Rompaey

Innovation-Proof Global Governance for Military Artificial Intelligence? How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love the Bot

Matthijs M Maas

The Digital Geneva Convention: A Critical Appraisal of Microsoft’s Proposal

Valentin Jeutner

Blurred Lines: Multi-Use Dynamics for Satellite Remote Sensing

Nathan Edward Clark

Controlling the Autonomous Warrior: Institutional and Agent-Based Approaches to Future Air Power

Gary Schaub Jr.

Book Reviews

Justice and Diplomacy: Resolving Contradictions in Diplomatic Practice and International Humanitarian Law, by Mark S Ellis, Yves Doutriaux and Timothy W Ryback

Saeed Bagheri

Routledge Handbook of Human Rights and Disasters, edited by Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani and others

Mariangela La Manna

Journal of International
Humanitarian Legal Studies

ISSN: 1878-1373 (print)
ISSN: 1878-1527 (online)

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