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‘Prisoners’ Dilemmas': The Potemkin Villages of International Law?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 October 2003

FRÉDÉRIC MÉGRET  and
FREDERICK PINTO
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Abstract

The outbreak of the ‘war against terrorism’ has provoked a deluge of images. It is uncommon for lawyers to think of the impact of the media on the production of law, yet a specific set of images has had a considerable impact on how legal issues surrounding the use of violence have been framed. The article seeks to explore this novel area by focusing on international humanitarian law and how it deals with the recurring question of prisoners. Some of the distortions the media community imposes on the law are uncovered, but the law's inherent malleability to such distortions is also underlined.

Keywords

virtualityinternational humanitarian lawmediaprisonerswar
Type
Research Article
Information
Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , September 2003 , pp. 467 - 490
Copyright
© 2003 Foundation of the Leiden Journal of International Law

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