[PDF] Top 20 Applying a Sovereign Agency Theory of the Law of Armed Conflict

... The current bifurcated conflict classification paradigm for applying the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) has lost its usefulness. Regulation of state militaries was originally based on t[r] ... See full document

... soft law are the appropriate methods of assistance to help children in these unique and precarious situations (although, perhaps not in that specific order) short of direct humanitarian ... See full document

... customary law requires a distinction to be drawn between customary law without the Interpretive Guidance and customary law taking it into ...Humanitarian Law study, the caselaw of the ICTY and ... See full document

... in the text, were Alec Wargo II, Program Officer for the Office of the Special Representative to the U.N. Secretary-General for Children & Armed Conflict, and Jo Becker, Advocacy Director, Children’s ... See full document

... Whereas the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols Additional thereto address, for the most part, the protection of victims of war, the Hague Regulations, the Genev[r] ... See full document

... a conflict has ended the impacts of the violence; physical or sexual, persists for long and may result into other problems such as unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and ...the conflict ... See full document

... The same is true for the law of self-defense if, e.g., a warship of a belligerent or neutral country exercises its analogous law of the sea right of approach and visit of a merchant [r] ... See full document

... If the conflict is a non-international armed conflict, the rules of international humanitarian law con- tained in Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions and in P[r] ... See full document

... 46. As Schmitt notes, human targeting officers in U.S. forces sometimes employ so- phisticated software programming to estimate likely collateral damage from the employ- ment of a particular munition in particular ... See full document

... in considering this proposal, it should keep some perspective. The United States is not subject to any human rights court or tribunal with the power to enforce a judgment against it. And, the option of simply ignoring, ... See full document

... The law of armed conflict is premised upon a number of ...international law as they slowly erode many of these ...humanitarian law (IHL) is for its rules to remain relevant in ... See full document

... Non-­‐combatants have all too often been the uncounted victims of modern warfare -­‐ an information vacuum which belligerents instead fill with fantastical claims of limited civilian deaths. By tallying the war dead as ... See full document

... Diplomatic Conference for the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflict, 84, 307n.. Diplomatic representatives, 83..[r] ... See full document

... on the Law of Armed Conflict of the American Society of International Law; the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy of Salve Regina University, Newport, Rhode Island[r] ... See full document

... That does not detract from the fact that the exercise of choice as to whether to participate in a legal regime is nothing less than a policy decision driven by a State's desire to sha[r] ... See full document

... On the practical side, agency cost analysis offers fresh insights into recurring problems in trust law including, among others, modification and termination, settlor standing, fiduciary [r] ... See full document

... I armed conflict (CRC-OPAC). With regard to humanitarian law, the four selected countries are all parties to the Geneva Conventions as well as their Additional Protocols I and ...in armed ... See full document

... In January 2003, US Army, Europe hosted a legal conference in Heidelberg, at which an Israeli judge advocate who had experience in the administration of occu- pied territory talked about problems likely to face ... See full document

... Gaza Conflict, established, interestingly enough, by the President of the UN Human Rights Council in April ...rights law and inter- national humanitarian law that might have been committed at any ... See full document

... In my view, we should narrowly interpret the exceptional categories of non-civilian persons and military objectives, as well as the exceptional activ- ity of taking direct part in hostilities. Accordingly, we should ... See full document