Daily Archives: June 21, 2024

Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter

Amanda Alexander writes in 2023: Abstract: This article traces the expansion of international law from the Hague Conventions, where only a state’s soldiers had legal status, to the contemporary understanding that international law governs all participants in conflict. This can … Continue reading

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Human rights – the key to all mythologies! (6-21-24)

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Narrative Contingency and International Humanitarian Law: Crimes against humanity in Cixin Liu’s post-humanist universe

Amanda Alexander writes: International humanitarian law (IHL) is the term which names, and also conceptualises, the current regime of the laws of war. The name belongs to a particular narrative about the history and purposes of this regime. In the … Continue reading

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