New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 17, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Jane McAdam & Thomas Mulder, A Last Resort? Reframing Evacuations as an Anticipatory Disaster Risk Management Strategy
• Matthias Vanhullebusch, The Case for a Prohibition on Arbitrary Denial of Humanitarian Relief in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Prospects, Challenges and Ways Ahead
• Giulia Bosi, The Protection of Mental Health under International Humanitarian Law
• Rohit Gupta, Forgotten Blind Spots of Jus in Bello: The 1972 World Heritage Convention and the Natural Environment as ‘Cultural Heritage’
• Joshua F. Berry & Hitoshi Nasu, Wartime Imagery and the Standard of Care in the Implementation of International Humanitarian Law
• Emanuela Merck Giuliani, The European Union’s International Obligations Regarding Trade with Occupied Territories: A Case Study of Western Sahara Litigation Before the cjeu

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 16, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium on the Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces
• Marten Zwanenburg, Aleksi Kajander, Steven van de Put, & Sebastian Cymutta, Introduction to Symposium on the Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces
• Lily Hamourtziadou & Welmoet Wels, Biometrics to Necrometrics: What the Dead Can Tell us About War: A Human Security Approach to Collecting and Analysing Conflict Data from the Dead
• Emelie Andersin, The Use of the ‘Lavender’ in Gaza and the Law of Targeting: ai-Decision Support Systems and Facial Recognition Technology
• Anna Rosalie Greipl, The Military Fantasy of Biometrics: Neglecting the Risks of the Normalizing of Bodies During Armed Conflicts

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 16, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Aneta Peretko, States of Silence: The Growing Influence of Human Rights Courts in Interpreting International Humanitarian Law in the Absence of Opinio Juris
• Samuel Hartridge & Brendan Walker-Munro, Autonomous Weapons Systems and the ai Alignment Problem
• Mohammed R. M. Elshobake & Alaa Sakka, Forced Returns and Fragile LivesStrategies for Safeguarding Syrian Refugees and Ensuring Their Protection
• Caroline Sweeney, The International Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: A Socio Legal Critique
• Pratik Purswani & Adithi Rajesh, Beyond Bombs and Bullets: Natural Resource Management in the Indo-Naxalite Non-International Armed Conflict
• J. P. Vallejo, Manipur: a Genocide?

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 15, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: The MONUSCO Intervention Brigade at Ten
• Marco Longobardo, Introduction to the Symposium “The MONUSCO Intervention Brigade at Ten” – Ten Years of the MONUSCO Intervention Brigade: International Law Concerns on the Future of Peacekeeping and the Protection of Civilians
• Jennifer Giblin, The Force Intervention Brigade: A Conscious Departure
• Marco Longobardo, The MONUSCO Force Intervention Brigade at 10 and the Quest for Fair UN Peacekeeping Involvement in Non-International Armed Conflicts
• Gina Heathcote & Lucia Kula, The Force Intervention Brigade in the DRC, Civilian Security and Women Peace and Security
• Articles
• Yvonne Breitwieser-Faria, Environmental Protections During Armed Conflict as Supportive Mechanisms for the Prevention of Atrocity Crimes
• Surbhi Soni, Proportionality in Bello: A Case Against Indirect Military Advantage in War
• Camilla G. Cooper, Ensuring Lawful Use of Autonomous Weapons: An Operational Perspective
• Elliot Winter, Lessons from the Russian Invasion of Ukraine: The Plight of Diaspora Fighters in Levées en Masse
• Lindsay Moir, Reappraising Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians in Customary International Humanitarian Law
• Kasim Balarabe, Safeguarding the Vulnerable: A Comprehensive Approach to Protecting Detainees in Contemporary Non-International Armed Conflicts and Counterterrorism Operations

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 15, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Agnieszka Szpak, Ukraine and Violations of International Humanitarian Law – A Critical Analysis of the Amnesty International Report
• David James Cantor, Conceptualising “Relocation” Across Displacement Contexts
• Sara (S) Benabbass & Marten (M.C.) Zwanenburg, The Interaction Between the Obligation to Warn and Other Rules of IHL
• Rebecca Barber, What Blocked the UN’s Response to the Earthquakes in Northwest Syria? Reflections on a Humanitarian System Premised on Government Consent
• Mark Klamberg, Regulatory Choices at the Advent of Gig Warfare
• Giacomo Biggio, The Legal Status and Targeting of Hacker Groups in the Russia-Ukraine Cyber Conflict

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 14, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: Law, Language and War
• Emily Crawford, Introduction to the Symposium on Law, Language and War
• Emily Crawford, Annabelle Lukin, & Jacqueline Mowbray, The Terminology of the Law of Warfare: A Linguistic Analysis of State Practice
• Annabelle Lukin & Alexandra García Marrugo, The International Laws of War: Linguistic Analysis from the Perspectives of Register, Corpus and Grammatical Patterning
• Matt Killingsworth, International Humanitarian Law: Necessity, Distinction and the ‘Standard of Civilisation’
• Amanda Alexander, Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter
• Frédéric Mégret, Another Look at the Gendered Constitution of the Laws of War: Semantic Fields, Hegemonic Masculinities and the Reproduction of Heteronormativity
• Tamer Morris, The Language of the Protection of Civilians Mandate and the Primary Responsibility of the State: A Legal Norm for Peace and Security
• Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Committed by Non-State Armed Groups Against Women/Girls and lgbti+ Persons in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Peru’s Case

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 14, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Alison Duxbury, Connecting Scholarship and Practice in International Humanitarian Law: A Tribute to Professor Bruce Oswald CSC
• Christopher Greenwood, The Practical Reality and Efficacy of International Humanitarian Law: Some Reflections
• Helen Durham & Anne Quintin, At the Crossroads: Multi-Stakeholder and Multi-Disciplinary Approaches in the Application of IHL
• Sean D. Murphy & Yuri Parkhomenko, Now You See Them, Now You Don’t: Court-Appointed Experts, Wartime Reparations, and the DRC v Uganda Case
• Rob McLaughlin, Rules of Engagement and the Situation of Individual Self-Defence: Applicable Law and Coherence with Operational Context
• Emma Lush, The View through a Different Lens: Increasing Respect for International Humanitarian Law through the Use of the International Human Rights Law Framework
• Steven van de Put, Ex Gratia Payments and Reparations: A Missed Opportunity?
• Tonny Raymond Kirabira & Leïla Choukroune, Uganda’s Post-War Transitional Justice Process: Have Housing, Land and Property Rights been Restored?

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 13, no. 2, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Michael N. Schmitt, International Humanitarian Law and the Conduct of Cyber Hostilities: Quo Vadis?
• I.M. Lobo de Souza, Nuremberg’s Enduring Legacy to International Justice
• Kevin Jon Heller & Lena Trabucco, The Legality of Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Under International Law
• Mais Qandeel & Jamie Sommer, Syria Conflict and its Impact: A Legal and Environmental Perspective
• Festus M. Kinoti, Might as Right? The Nature of Laws of War applicable to Targeting and Detention in International Armed Conflicts
• Pearce Clancy, The Law of Neutrality: Jus ad Bellum or Jus in Bello?
• Alessandra Spadaro, From Outlaws to Judges: Armed Groups and The Administration of Justice

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 13, no. 1, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford, & Rain Liivoja, Rules-Based International Disorder
• Emily Camins, Between Rights, Sovereignty and Cooperation: Responding to Victims of Armed Conflict
• Alba Grembi, Dissemination of International Humanitarian Law in Greece: A Maritime Perspective
• Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen, ‘Bury Me Not, I Pray Thee, in Egypt: But I Will Lie with My Fathers’: The Right of Soldiers to Be Buried in their Homeland
• Tommaso Natoli, Improving Coherence between Climate Change Adaptation and Disaster Risk Reduction through Formal and Informal International Lawmaking
• Mateusz Piątkowski, The Case of M/S Józef Conrad and Law of Air Warfare During the Vietnam War
• Marnie Lloydd, Brokers and Translators: Exploring the Limits of Pluralism in International Humanitarian Negotiation

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 12, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Roderic Alley, Humanitarian Law Compliance: The Disadvantaged State Problem
• Remzije Istrefi & Arben Hajrullahu, Conflict-Related Sexual Violence in Kosovo and Lessons to be Learned from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia
• Simon McKenzie & Eve Massingham, Taking Care Against the Computer: Precautions Against Military Operations on Digital Infrastructure
• Owiso Owiso, Seeking ‘Truth’ After Devastating, Multi-Layered Conflict: The Complex Case of Transitional Justice in South Sudan
• Emmanuel Sarpong Owusu, ‘Guilty of Having Been Obedient’: A Fresh Dissection of the Superior Orders Controversy
• Alexandra Wormald, Protecting the Environment During and After Armed Conflict, the International Law Commission and an Overdue Due Diligence Duty for Corporations: Good in Principle?

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 12, no. 1, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Ianiv Garfunkel, The Referral of the Situation in Venezuela to the International Criminal Court: The Office of the Prosecutor Should Not Step In… Yet
• Deniz Arbet Nejbir, Applying Humanitarian Law: A Review of the Legal Status of the Turkey–Kurdistan Workers’ Party (pkk) Conflict
• Emilia Pabian, Prolonged Occupation and Exploitation of Natural Resources: A Focus on Natural Gas off the Coast of Northern Cyprus
• Cristina Teleki, Detainee Operations in Ukraine: Risk or Opportunity for International Law?
• Piergiuseppe Parisi, Fact-Finding in Situations of Atrocities: In Search of Legitimacy

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 11, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• International Law in a Time of Pandemic
• Pouria Askary & Farzad Fallah, The Right to International Solidarity and Humanitarian Assistance in the Era of COVID-19 Pandemic
• Gian Luca Burci, The Legal Response to Pandemics: The Strengths and Weaknesses of the International Health Regulations
• Antonio Coco & Talita de Souza Dias, Prevent, Respond, Cooperate States’ Due Diligence Duties vis-à-vis the COVID-19 Pandemic
• David P Fidler, The COVID-19 Pandemic, Geopolitics, and International Law
• Sarah Joseph, International Human Rights Law and the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Jan Klabbers, The Second Most Difficult Job in the World: Reflections on COVID-19
• Natalie Klein, International Law Perspectives on Cruise Ships and COVID-19
• Hin-Yan Liu, Kristian Lauta, & Matthijs Maas, Apocalypse Now? Initial Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic for the Governance of Existential and Global Catastrophic Risks
• Martins Paparinskis, COVID-19 Claims and the Law of International Responsibility
• Barrie Sander & Nicholas Tsagourias, The COVID-19 Infodemic and Online Platforms as Intermediary Fiduciaries under International Law
• Articles
• Martha M Bradley, Classifying Non-International Armed Conflicts: The ‘Territorial Control’ Requirement Under Additional Protocol II in an Era of Complex Conflicts
• Kirsten J. Fisher, The Problem with the Crime of Forced Migration as a Loophole to ICC Jurisdiction: The PTC’s Decision on Myanmar and the Risk to Vulnerable Populations
• Alessandro Silvestri, The ‘Revolving Door’ of Direct Participation in Hostilities: A Way Forward?
• Alexander Gilder, International Law as a Help or Hinderance to World Peace

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 11, no. 1, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Karolina Aksamitowska, Traditional Approaches to the Law of Armed Conflict: Disseminating IHL through the Receptor Approach
• Cédric Cotter & Ellen Policinski, A History of Violence: The Development of International Humanitarian Law Reflected in the International Review of the Red Cross
• Rob Grace, Humanitarian Negotiation with Parties to Armed Conflict: The Role of Laws and Principles in the Discourse
• Hyeran Jo, International Humanitarian Law on the Periphery: Case of Non-state Armed Actors
• Diego Mauri, The Holy See’s Position on Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: An Appraisal through the Lens of the Martens Clause
• Tara Smith, A Framework Convention for the Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict: A New Direction for the International Law Commission’s Draft Principles?
• Margherita Stevoli, Famine as a Collateral Damage of War

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 10, no. 2, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Elina Almila, Protecting Children from Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict under International Humanitarian Law: Discrepancies between Conventions and Practice of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Pouria Askary & Katayoun Hosseinnejad, Non-state Courts: Illegal or Conditional? The Case of Da'esh Courts
• Ximena Galvez Lima, Inked or Not: Maras and Their Participation in El Salvador’s Recent Armed Conflict
• Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen, From Knives to Kites: Developments and Dilemmas around the Use of Force in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict since ‘Protective Edge’
• Frédéric Mégret & Chloe Swinden, Returning the ‘Fallen Terrorist’ for Burial in Non-international Armed Conflicts: The Rights of the Deceased, the Obligations of the State, and the Problem of Collective Punishment

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 10, no. 1, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Ergun Cakal, Political Violence and Its Discontents: A Critique of Refugee Status as Purely Civilian and Humanitarian
• Smadar Ben-Natan, Revise Your Syllabi: Israeli Supreme Court Upholds Authorization for Torture and Ill-Treatment
• Dale Stephens, Roots of Restraint in War: The Capacities and Limits of Law and the Critical Role of Social Agency in Ameliorating Violence in Armed Conflict
• Hin-Yan Liu, Léonard Van Rompaey & Matthijs M Maas, Editorial Beyond Killer Robots: Networked Artificial Intelligence Systems Disrupting the Battlefield?
• Hin-Yan Liu, From the Autonomy Framework towards Networks and Systems Approaches for ‘Autonomous’ Weapons Systems
• Léonard Van Rompaey, Shifting from Autonomous Weapons to Military Networks
• Matthijs M Maas, Innovation-Proof Global Governance for Military Artificial Intelligence? How I Learned to Stop Worrying, and Love the Bot
• Valentin Jeutner, The Digital Geneva Convention: A Critical Appraisal of Microsoft’s Proposal
• Nathan Edward Clark, Blurred Lines: Multi-Use Dynamics for Satellite Remote Sensing
• Gary Schaub Jr., Controlling the Autonomous Warrior: Institutional and Agent-Based Approaches to Future Air Power

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 9, nos. 1-2, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Shea Elizabeth Esterling & Michael John-Hopkins, The Creation and Protection of History through the Prism of International Criminal Justice in Al Mahdi
• Etienne Kuster, Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes, and Challenges of the ICRC’s Approach
• Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, Reflections on the International Adjudication of Cases of Grave Violations of Rights of the Human Person

Call for Submissions: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming Volume 10, Issue 1. The call is here.

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 8, nos. 1-2, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Zia Akhtar, Naxalite Rebellion: Domestic Law and Order, and Humanitarian Law in a Non International Armed Conflict
• Matthew Bywater, Classical and Political Humanitarianisms in an Era of Military Interventionism and the War on Terror
• Grant Dawson & Rachel Laut, Human Mobility and Climate Change
• Michael John-Hopkins, Mapping War, Peace and Terrorism in the Global Information Environment
• Artem Sergeev, Applying Additional Protocol II of the Geneva Conventions to the United Nations Forces

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 7, no. 2, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel R. Mekonnen, The Case for Crimes against Humanity in Eritrea
• Maria Giovanna Pietropaolo, A Human Rights-Based Approach to Humanitarian Assistance
• Jeremy Sarkin, Refocusing Transitional Justice to Focus Not Only on the Past, But Also to Concentrate on Ongoing Conflicts and Enduring Human Rights Crises
• Niaz A Shah, The Right to a Fair Trial and the Military Justice System in Pakistan

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 7, no. 1, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Djemila Carron, Transnational Armed Conflicts
• Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen, A Ghost in the Ivory Tower: Positivism and International Legal Regulation of Armed Opposition Groups
• Andres B. Munoz Mosquera & Sascha Dov Bachmann, Lawfare in Hybrid Wars: The 21st Century Warfare
• Tamar Meshel, A Decade Later and Still on Target: Revisiting the 2006 Israeli Targeted Killing Decision
• Camille Marquis Bissonnette, The Definition of Civilians in Non-International Armed Conflicts
• Alon Margalit, Recent Trends in the Application of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
• Sam Pack, Targeting Child Soldiers: Striking a Balance between Humanity and Military Necessity