Law Applicable to Armed Conflict
Which law applies to armed conflict? This book investigates the applicability of international humanitarian law and international human rights law to armed conflict situations. The issue is examined by three scholars whose professional, theoretical and methodological backgrounds and outlooks differ greatly. These multiple perspectives expose the political factors and intellectual styles that influence scholarly approaches and legal answers, and the unique trialogical format encourages its participants to decentre their perspectives. By focusing on the authors’ divergence and disagreement, a richer understanding of the law applicable to armed conflict is achieved. The book, first, provides a detailed study of the law applicable to armed conflict situations. Secondly, it explores the regimes’ interrelation and the legal techniques for their coordination and prevention of potential norm conflicts. Thirdly, the book moves beyond the positive analysis of the law and probes the normative principles that guide the interpretation, application and development of law.
Ziv Bohrer is Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University. His main areas of research are in international criminal law and international humanitarian law. His chapter in this book was a winner of Israel's Junior Law Faculty Workshop Competition. Bohrer has previously held visiting positions at the University of Michigan (as a Fulbright Fellow), Hebrew University, University of Georgia and the University of Cambridge.
Janina Dill is Associate Professor of US Foreign Policy at Nuffield College, University of Oxford. Her previous publication, Legitimate Targets? International Law, Social Construction and U.S. Bombing, was included in the Cambridge Studies in International Relations series in 2015. The book was Runner-Up for the Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship of the Society of Legal Scholars, and has received an Honourable Mention by the Theory Section of the International Studies Association.
Helen Duffy holds the Gieskes Chair in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights at the Grotius Centre, Leiden University, and is Honorary Professor of International Law at the University of Glasgow. She also runs ‘Human Rights in Practice’, a law practice providing legal advice, legal representation and support in strategic human rights litigation before international and regional courts and bodies. Her previous publications include The ‘War on Terror’ and the Framework of International law (Cambridge, 2015) and Strategic Human Rights Litigation (2018).
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