Wednesday, November 6, 2019

New Volume: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Vol. 21, 2018) is out. Contents include:
  • Weapons Law
    • Mirko Sossai, The Demands of Future Operations and the Promise of Non- or Less-Lethal Weapons
    • Stuart Casey-Maslen, The Status of Nuclear Deterrence Under International Law in Light of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
    • Matthias Brenneke, Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems and Their Compatibility with International Humanitarian Law: A Primer on the Debate
    • Joshua G. Hughes, The Law of Armed Conflict Issues Created by Programming Automatic Target Recognition Systems Using Deep Learning Methods
  • Other Articles
    • Beatrice Heuser, Ordinances and Articles of War Before the Lieber Code, 866-1863: The Long Pre-History of International Humanitarian Law
    • Kilian Roithmaier, Monika Tobjasz, & Pauline Bove, Year in Review 2018