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Theorizing Sexual Violence Against Men In The Middle East And North African Region As Gender-Related Persecution Under Refugee And Asylum Law, Valorie K. Vojdik Jan 2019

Theorizing Sexual Violence Against Men In The Middle East And North African Region As Gender-Related Persecution Under Refugee And Asylum Law, Valorie K. Vojdik

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The International Law Commission's Soft Law Influence, Elena Baylis Jan 2019

The International Law Commission's Soft Law Influence, Elena Baylis

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Since the 1990s, the International Law Commission has increasingly produced soft law, such as principles and draft conclusions, in addition to hard law like draft treaty articles This essay explores the implications of the International Law Commission’s transition toward a greater emphasis on soft law. Soft law is an effective vehicle for the International Law Commission’s mission of codification and progressive development of international law; the International Law Commission’s involvement increases the clarity and accessibility of international law norms and promotes a dynamic, synergistic relationship between hard law and soft law that contributes to the effective evolution of international law. …


Armed Conflict At The Threshold, Deborah Pearlstein Jan 2019

Armed Conflict At The Threshold, Deborah Pearlstein

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Seventeen years into the United States’ engagement in what America has controversially understood as a global, non-international armed conflict against a shifting set of terrorist groups, a growing array of scholars has called for a reassessment of the significance of the “armed conflict” classification under international humanitarian law (IHL). The existence of an “armed conflict” has long been understood as a proxy on/off switch of inescapable importance. When an “armed conflict” exists, lethal targeting—without regard to particular self-defensive need or immediacy of threat—is permitted as a first resort. When an “armed conflict” does not exist, it is not. Challenging the …