Law-making and legitimacy in international humanitarian law

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Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021

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Book

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Law-making and legitimacy in international humanitarian law / edited by Heike Krieger (Professor of Public and International Law, Freie Universität Berlin, Co-Chair Berlin Potsdam Research Group 'The International Rule of Law- Rise or Decline?', and Max Planck Fellow, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany), with assistant editor Jonas Püschmann (Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany).

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Krieger, Heike, editor
Püschmann, Jonas, editor
Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher

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Electronic books

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Humanitarian law

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Contents: Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. Law-making and legitimacy in international humanitarian law / Heike Krieger and Jonas Püschmann -- Part II: Legitimacy as analytical lens -- 2. The roles of legitimacy in international legal discourses: Legitimizing law vs legalizing legitimacy / Jean d'Aspremont -- 3. The role of legitimacy in international humanitarian law: A comment / Stefan Kadelbach -- 4. Actor legitimacy and the application of ihl: A rejoinder to d'aspremont / Tom Ruys -- Part III: Informal law-making in international humanitarian law as a political choice -- 5. Global norms governing the protection of civilians, conflict, and weapons: Formal or informal law-making? / Denise Garcia -- 6. Post-international humanitarian law? A rejoinder to denise garcia / Philip Liste -- 7. Noncompliance as law-making / Timothy Meyer -- Part IV: New law through practice? -- 8. Interpreting the geneva conventions: Subsequent practice instead of treaty amendments? A case study of 'non-international armed conflicts' under common article 3 / Emily Crawford -- 9. Legitimacy and methodology - a subtle yet significant influence: Judicial decisions and the development of international humanitarian law / Shane Darcy -- 10. The interpretation of ihl treaties: Subsequent practice and other salient issues / Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Elvina Pothelet -- 11. Methodological challenges in ascertaining customary international humanitarian law: Can customary international law respond to changing circumstances in warfare? / Robert Heinsch -- Part V: Courts and manuals - decoupling law-making from states? -- 12. Judicial practice in international criminal law: Law-making in disguise? / Thomas Rauter -- 13. The law at hand: Paratext in manuals on international humanitarian law / Wouter G. Werner -- 14. International manuals in international humanitarian law: A rejoinder to wouter g. Werner / Robin Geiß and Anni Pues -- 15. Interpretation and identification of international humanitarian law: Responses of the international law commission / Georg Nolte -- 16. Manuals and courts: International humanitarian law, informal law-making and normativity / Dale Stephens -- Part VI: Legitimacy and participation -- 17. International humanitarian law-making in Latin America: Between the international community, humanity, and extreme violence / Alejandro Rodiles -- 18. Sovereign equality and law-making: How do states from the global south shape international humanitarian law? An African perspective / Balingene Kahombo -- 19. Sovereign equality and law-making: How do states from the global south shape international humanitarian law? A comment to alejandro rodiles and balingene kahombo / Michael Bothe -- 20. Between war and peace: Negotiating and implementing legitimate ceasefire agreements / Cindy Wittke -- 21. Law-making participation by non-state armed groups: The prerequisite of law's legitimacy? / Hyeran Jo -- 22. Non-state armed groups and international humanitarian law-making - the challenge of legitimacy: A reply to cindy wittke and hyeran jo / Cedric Ryngaert -- Part VII: Legitimacy and norm entrepreneurs -- 23. The impact of human rights advocacy: Between (mis)stating the law and pursuing humanitarian policies? / Robert Cryer -- 24. From the martens clause to the cnn factor: Is the impact of media and public opinion on law-making discernible? / Daniel Joyce -- 25. Media, public opinion and humanitarian advocacy / William Boothby -- Part VIIi conclusion -- 26. A legitimacy crisis of international humanitarian law? / Heike Krieger and Jonas Püschmann.

Summary:

"International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is in a state of some turbulence, as a result of, among other things, non-international armed conflicts, terrorist threats and the rise of new technologies. This incisive book observes that while states appear to be reluctant to act as agents of change, informal methods of law-making are flourishing. Illustrating that not only courts, but various non-state actors, push for legal developments, this timely work offers an insight into the causes of this somewhat ambivalent state of IHL by focusing attention on both the legitimacy of law-making processes and the actors involved. Investigating what law-making processes reveal about the overall state of this legal regime, this thought-provoking book shows that current developments display a far-reaching disagreement about the direction into which IHL should evolve. It explores the most relevant trends in the development of IHL including the absence of formal law-making by states, informal law-making through manual processes and the increasing role of sub and non-state actors. Law-Making and Legitimacy in International Humanitarian Law will be of benefit to scholars and students of international law and relations, as well as practitioners working in the field of IHL, particularly in government ministries, international organizations and NGOs"--

Language:

English

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1 online resource (488 pages)

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9937390047802486

ISBN:

9781800883963 (e-book)