- Code
- LAW 417
- Name
- The Law of Armed Conflicts
- Semester
- 0
- Lecture hours
- 3.00
- Seminar hours
- 1.00
- Laborator hours
- 0.00
- Credits
- 3.50
- ECTS
- 6.00
- Description
-
The course covers the essential aspects of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC), often referred to as international humanitarian law (IHL). This course will be concerned with jus in bello, law in war – battlefield law – much more than jus ad bellum, the law concerning the resort to arms. We will stress LOAC/IHL concepts applicable in land-based armed conflicts between States, and conflicts between States and non-State actors and armed opposition groups.
- Objectives
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The objective of these lectures is to • Provide the students with a basic knowledge and understanding of both the substantive and procedural aspects of the law of armed conflict Introduce the students to the basic objectives and principles underlying the rules of armed conflict, including the major treaties, enforcement mechanisms, and the relationship between humanitarian and human rights law Develop students’ skills in applying, analyzing and critiquing the relevant principles
- Java
- Tema
- 1
- Law of armed conflict: background & historyThe 1949 Geneva ConventionsAdditional Protocols I, II, and III
- 2
- Types of conflict and thresholds of applicability of the law: (i) international conflict; (ii) non-international armed conflict; (iii) self-determination movements; (iv) internationalized armed conflict
- 3
- Law on the conduct of hostilities: (i) non-combatants; (ii) wounded, sick and shipwrecked; (iii) humanitarian personnel and the protective emblem; (iv) combatants and prisoners of war: status and treatment; (v) spies, mercenaries; (vi) methods of combat; (vii) means of combat; (viii) issues: nuclear weapons, arms control & disarmament, culture, environment
- 4
- The problem of terrorism and terrorists: status, rights, asymmetrical warfare, necessity, and assassination
- 5
- International vs. Non-International Armed Conflicts
- 6
- Battlefield Status in an IAC
- 7
- Battlefield Status in NIAC
- 8
- Midterm Exam
- 9
- The law of occupation
- 10
- The relationship between human rights law & humanitarian law
- 11
- Implementation, responsibility and enforcement
- 12
- War crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide
- 13
- Child soldiers
- 14
- Women in war
- 15
- Current difficult law of armed conflict issuesCyber warfare Guantanamo and military commissions
- 16
- Final Exam
- 1
- Demonstrate a sophisticated understanding of the history of the movement towards humanisation of armed conflict, and the reasons for the complex legal framework that exists in International Law.
- 2
- Understand the relationship between the Jus ad Bellum and the Jus in Bello, and the different distinctions within these laws of war.
- 3
- Demonstrate an advanced conceptual understanding of the International Law of Armed Conflict, what it is, whom or what it affects, the system within which it operates, and how that relates to the domestic legal system
- 4
- Critically examine, compare and evaluate the different theories and views of leading authorities, and develop their own perspectives about academic controversies.
- 5
- Engage directly with primary legal materials as well as advanced scholarly works, and be able to assess critically leading decisions of international courts and tribunals, and the contribution that these decisions have made
- Quantity Percentage Total percent
- Midterms
- 1 15% 15%
- Quizzes
- 0 0% 0%
- Projects
- 1 15% 15%
- Term projects
- 0 0% 0%
- Laboratories
- 0 0% 0%
- Class participation
- 1 10% 10%
- Total term evaluation percent
- 40%
- Final exam percent
- 60%
- Total percent
- 100%
- Quantity Duration (hours) Total (hours)
- Course duration (including exam weeks)
- 16 4 64
- Off class study hours
- 14 4 56
- Duties
- 1 5 5
- Midterms
- 1 0 0
- Final exam
- 1 20 20
- Other
- 0 0 0
- Total workLoad
- 145
- Total workload / 25 (hours)
- 5.80
- ECTS
- 6.00