INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW (IHL)
Faculdade Direito, Universidade Nova Lisboa
Mestrado Internacional e Europeu
1º Semestre 2015-2016
Patrícia Galvão Teles
Programme
1. Concept, Nature and Specificities of IHL.
2. The application of IHL: International Armed Conflicts, Wars of National Liberation,
Non-International Armed Conflicts, Internal Disturbances, Peacetime.
3. IHL and Human Rights.
4. The Sources of IHL: Treaty, Customary Law and the Martens Clause.
5. Combatants and Protected Persons (Prisoners of War, Wounded and Sick, Civilians).
6. Means and Methods of Warfare. The Principle of Distinction and other Principles.
Lawfulness of Weapons.
7. Violations of IHL and International Crimes: Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity and War
Crimes.
8. International Criminal Tribunals and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
9. IHL in Peacetime: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the Red
Cross/Crescent Movement. The Protection of the Emblem and the Basic Principles:
Humanity, Impartiality, Neutrality, Independence, Voluntary Service, Unity and
Universality.
10. Current challenges to IHL: Implementation, Terrorism, Non-State Actors,
Privatization of War and New Weapons
Selected Bibliography
Clapham, A., and P. Gaeta (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed
Conflict, Oxford University Press (2015)
Kolb, R., Advanced Introduction to International Humanitarian Law, Elgar (2015)
Sassòli, M. (et al.), How does law protect in war? Cases, documents and teaching
materials on contemporary practice in international humanitarian law, Online Platform
2014 (www.icrc.org/casebook)
Dinstein, Y., Non-International Armed Conflicts in International Law, Cambridge
University Press (2014)
White, N. D., Advanced Introduction to International Conflict and Security Law, Elgar
(2014)
International Law Association (ILA) Study Group, The Conduct of Hostilities under
International Humanitarian Law – Challenges of 21st Century Warfare, Report 2014
Blank, L.R., and G.P. Noone, International Law and Armed Conflict: Fundamental
Principles and Contemporary Challenges in the Law of War, Kluwer Law & Business
(2013)
Crowe, J., and K. Weston-Scheuber, Principles of International Humanitarian Law, Elgar
(2013)
Fleck, D. (ed.), The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law, Oxford University
Press (2013)
Kolb, R., and G. Gaggioli (eds.), Research Handbook on Human Rights and
Humanitarian Law, Elgar (2013)
Bothe, M. (et al.), New rules for Victims of Armed Conflicts: Commentary on the Two
1977 Protocols Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Martinus Nijhoff (2013)
David, E., Principes de droit des conflits armés, Bruylant (2012)
Rogers, A.P.V., Law on the Battlefield, Manchester University Press (2012)
Wilmshurst, E. (ed.), International Law and the Classification of Conflicts, Oxford
University Press (2012)
Kalshoven, F. and L. Zegveld , Constraints on the Waging of War: An Introduction to
International Humanitarian Law, Cambridge University Press (2011)
Thürer, D., International Humanitarian Law: Theory, Practice, Context, Hague Academy
of International Law (2011)
Solis, G. D., The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War,
Cambridge University Press (2010)
Melzer, N. (ed.), Interpretive Guidance on the Notion of Direct Participation in
Hostilities under International Humanitarian Law, ICRC (2009)
Henckaerts, J.-M. and L. Doswald-Beck (eds.), Customary International Humanitarian
Law, Cambridge University Press (2005)
Roberts, A., and R. Guelff (eds.), Documents on the Laws of War, Oxford University
Press (2000)
Selected Internet Resources
www.icrc.org
www.un.org
www.icj-cij.org
www.ohchr.org
www.icc-cpi.int
http://www.icty.org
www.unictr.org
http://www.crimesofwar.org
http://www.asil.org/sites/default/files/ERG_HUMANIT_LAW.pdf
www.eisil.org
http://www.geneva-academy.ch/RULAC/international_humanitarian_law.php