JJUA55102U Laws of Armed Conflict: Rules, Principles, Context

The following textbook will be used:

Solis, Gary D., The Law of Armed Conflict. International Humanitarian Law in

War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016), chap. v, vi, vii, viii, ix, x, xiv

Additional readings:

Blum, Gabriella, “The Fog of Victory”, European Journal of International Law (2013), Vol. 24, No. 1, 3.

Berdal, Mats, “The 'New Wars' Thesis Revisited” in Hew Strachan & Sibylle Scheipers (eds.), The Changing Character of War (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011).

Dinstein, Yoram, Non-International Armed Conflict in International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014), chap. viii-xi.

Dinstein, Yoram, The International Law of Belligerent Occupation (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), chap. ii, iii, xi.

Dinstein, Yoram, War, Agression, and Self-Defence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 20115), chap. i, iv.

Kaldor, Mary, New and Old Wars. Organized Violence in a Global Era (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2001), chap. iii-iv

Kaldor, Mary, The Baroque Arsenal (New York: Hill and Wang, 1981), chap. i, ii, v.

Kalyvas, Stathis N., “Warfare in Civil War,” in Isabelle Duyvesteyn and Jan Angstrom (eds.), Rethinking the Nature of War (Abingdon: Frank Cass, 2005).

Kalyvas, Stathis N., The Ontology of ?Political Violence': Action and Identity in Civil Wars,” Perspectives on Poli-tics (2003) 1:3.

Keen, David, Complex Emergencies (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008), chap. i,iii.

Meron, Theodor, “The Humanization of Humanitarian Law,” The American Journal of International Law (2000), Vol. 94, No. 2.

Neff, Stephen C., War and the Laws of Nations. A General History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008), chap. iii, viii.

Schmitt, Carl, “The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War” (1937) in Nunan, Timothy (ed.), Carl Schmitt. Writings on War (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011) (pp. 30-36, 62-74).

Stahn, Carsten, “Jus Post Bellum:Mapping the Discipline(s)“ in Carsten Stahn & Jann K.Kleffner ( eds.), Jus Post Bellum. Towards a Law of Transition from Conflict to Peace (The Hague: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2008), chap. v.

Thucydides, The History of the Peloponnesian War, III, 69-85.

Vattel, Emer de, The Law of Nations (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008 (1797)), book III, chap. i, iii, iv, xi, xii, xviii.

Whitman, James Q., The Verdict of Battle. The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2014), chap. vi (pp. 207-215, 223-237).

Readings for the seminar: 700 pages

Cases and guidelines:

Boumediene vs. Bush 553 US 723 (2008).

Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation vs. Council and Commission (ECJ Combined cases C-402/05P & C-415/05P)

Prosecutor v. Tadic

IASC Guiding & Operative Principles on Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Military Assets Readings