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The Evolution And Identification Of The Customary International Law Of Armed Conflict, Sir Michael Wood
The Evolution And Identification Of The Customary International Law Of Armed Conflict, Sir Michael Wood
Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law
Despite the many widely ratified treaties on the law of armed conflict (LOAC, also referred to as international humanitarian law (IHL)), customary international law remains of great importance in this branch of international law. So far as concerns international armed conflicts, customary international humanitarian law (CIHL) is of special importance in connection with states not party to Additional Protocol I of 1977. So far as concerns non-international armed conflicts, CIHL is of crucial importance for all states, since, for the most part, treaty provisions are rudimentary. The International Court of Justice has also had occasion to state that "a great …