Some say it is legal to attack energy infrastructure because it is a ‘dual-use object’. But such strikes may make commanders liable under the law on dual-purpose attacks.
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🚨 Volume 27 (2024) of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law – "International Humanitarian Law under Pressure" – is now available!
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In doing so, the volume seeks to better understand what is at stake for IHL today.
Contributions include (among others) work on:
- Sieges as indiscriminate attacks
- Protection of hospitals and healthcare in Gaza
- AI and decision-support systems in warfare
- Harmful speech in armed conflict
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📢 Our #callforabstracts for Volume 29 (2026) of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is now out!
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Volume 27 explores how recent and ongoing armed conflicts – such as in #Gaza and #Ukraine – have given rise to fundamental challenges to widely held understandings of core IHL rules and further heightened concerns about IHL compliance.
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⚔️ Contemporary armed conflicts, such as in Gaza and Ukraine, have placed unprecedented pressure on the rules of international humanitarian law.
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Attacks against dual-use objects could also be analysed under the more developed law on dual-purpose attacks.
