More than half a century after the Universal Declaration of Human Rights defined what a
human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: Are women human yet? If …

Modern war is law pursued by other means. Once a bit player in military conflict, law now
shapes the institutional, logistical, and physical landscape of war. At the same time, law has …

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the use of peace agreements from a legal
perspective. It describes and evaluates the development of contemporary peace processes …

This Article examines the work of organized feminism in the formation of new international
criminal tribunals over the course of the 1990s. It focuses on the statutes establishing the …

In Sacred Violence, the distinguished political and legal theorist Paul W. Kahn investigates
the reasons for the resort to violence characteristic of premodern states. In a startling …

The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and
yet continues to be one of the most dynamic and relevant areas of law today. Now in its third …

This book provides a modern and basic introduction to a branch of international law
constantly gaining in importance in international life, namely international humanitarian law …

Presenting a critique of conventional methods in comparative law, this book argues that, for
comparative law to qualify as a discipline, comparatists must reflect on how and why they …

On October 9, 2007, a trial chamber of the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) sentenced
two leaders of the Civil Defence Forces (CDF), one of the parties to Sierra Leone's civil war …

The specific criminalisation of sexual violence in war has made immense strides in recent
years, as feminists engaged with the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former …