The Law of War

A battle over the banning of AR-15 style rifles will soon present itself before the High Court. In Viramontes v. Cook County, a Second Amendment challenge was brought by Cutberto Viramontes and other plaintiffs to Cook County’s ban on AR-15-style rifles and similar semiautomatic ...  عرض المزيد

The White House ballroom. The Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool. The proposed Triumphal Arch. These are just a few of President Trump’s controversial Washington, D.C. renovation and "beautification" initiatives of historical sites which has created backlash among historians, prese ...  عرض المزيد

The rules of war are agreed-upon rules that are intended to govern international wars and conflicts. Who developed these rules? And do countries really abide by them? Josh and Chuck take a detailed look at how the rules of war work in this episode.

Professor Pablo Kalmanovitz, International Studies Division at CIDE, Mexico City, gives a talk for the Oxford PIL discussion group. The Law of Armed Conflict is usually understood to be a regime of exception that applies only during armed conflict and regulates hostilities among ...  عرض المزيد

Gideon discusses the history of international humanitarian law since the first world war with Boyd van Dijk, a historian at Oxford university and author of a recent book, Preparing for War - The Making of the Geneva Conventions. They discuss current efforts to pr ...