Wednesday, November 16, 2022

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 104, nos. 920-921, August 2022) is out. The theme is: "How International Humanitarian Law Develops." Contents include:
  • Bruno Demeyere, The power of asking “how” – a key to understanding the development of IHL?
  • Interview with Peter Maurer: President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (2012–2022)
  • How international humanitarian law develops: Towards an ever-greater humanization? An interview with Theodor Meron
  • Interview with Emily Crawford
  • Interview with Eirini Giorgou
  • Antoon De Baets, The view of the past in international humanitarian law (1860–2020)
  • Boyd van Dijk, What is IHL history now?
  • Sarah Jean Mabeza & Tamalin Bolus, Changing the narrative: A Tool on African Traditions and the Preservation of Humanity during War
  • Tania Ixchel Atilano, The 1871 Mexican Criminal Code as the missing piece in the history of criminalizing violations of the laws of war
  • Maartje Abbenhuis, Branka Bogdan & Emma Wordsworth, Humanitarian bullets and man-killers: Revisiting the history of arms regulation in the late nineteenth century
  • Vitaliy Ivanenko, The origins, causes and enduring significance of the Martens Clause: A view from Russia
  • Andrew Bartles-Smith, Religion and international humanitarian law
  • Raj Balkaran & A. Walter Dorn, Charting Hinduism’s rules of armed conflict: Indian sacred texts and international humanitarian law
  • Cordula Droege & Eirini Giorgou, How international humanitarian law develops
  • Christopher Greenwood, The International Court of Justice and the development of international humanitarian law
  • Marko Milanovic & Sandesh Sivakumaran, Assessing the authority of the ICRC Customary IHL Study
  • Charlotte Mohr & Ellen Policinski, From the Gilded Age to the Digital Age: The evolution of ICRC legal commentaries
  • Namira Negm, The African Union’s humanitarian policies: A closer look at Africa’s regional institutions and practice
  • Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Going for a test drive? Some observations on the turn to informality in the laws of armed conflict
  • Jan Hladík, How the Guidelines for the Implementation of the 1999 Second Protocol to the Hague Convention of 1954 contribute to better protection of cultural property
  • Martin Fink, The ever-existing “crisis” of the law of naval warfare
  • Rachael Kitching & Anne Quintin, The well-trodden path of national international humanitarian law committees Oscar G. Macias Betancourt, Implementation of international humanitarian law: The work of Latin American international humanitarian law committees
  • Frédéric Casier & Laura De Grève, The role of National Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in the development of international humanitarian law: Lessons learned and perspectives based on the Belgian Red Cross experience
  • Marco Sassòli, How will international humanitarian law develop in the future?
  • Paul B. Stephan, The crisis in international law and the path forward for international humanitarian law
  • Michael N. Schmitt, Normative architecture and applied international humanitarian law
  • Pauline Charlotte Janssens & Jan Wouters, Informal international law-making: A way around the deadlock of international humanitarian law?
  • Yahli Shereshevsky, International humanitarian law-making and new military technologies
  • Jann K. Kleffner, The unilateralization of international humanitarian law
  • Ana Peyró Llopis, The UN75 Declaration, Our Common Agenda and the development of international law