About the author(s):
Katharine Fortin is an Associate Professor at Utrecht University where she teaches IHL and IHRL. Before joining Utrecht University, she worked at the ICTY, ICC and Norton Rose Fulbright. She is the author of The Accountability of Armed Groups under Human Rights Law (Oxford University Press, 2017) which won the 2018 Lieber Prize. She has written widely about the framework of law that applies to armed groups in non-international armed conflicts and is one of the editors of the Armed Groups and International Law blog.
This week, the new issue of the Journal of Human Rights and International Legal Discourse that I edited together with Steven Dewulf from Antwerp University was published. The issue is devoted to exploring new developments regarding the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law.
With two headline articles by Professor Andrew Clapham and Jean-Marie Henckaerts & Ellen Nohle, the articles (which include articles by fellow blog editors Rogier Bartels and Annyssa Bellal) explore themes such as conflict-driven displacment, international criminal law, armed groups, soft law and jurisdiction.
Here is the table of contents:-
Steven Dewulf and Katharine Fortin – Introduction
Andrew Clapham – Human Rights in Armed Conflict: Metaphors, Maxims, and the Move to Interoperability
Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Ellen Nohle – Concurrent Application of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law Revisited
Rogier Bartels – The Interplay between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law during International Criminal Trials
Deborah Casalin – A Green Light Turning Red? The Potential Influence of Human Rights on Developing Customary Legal Protection Against Conflict-Driven Displacement
Peter Vedel Kessing – Soft Law Instruments Regulating Armed Confl ict. Are International Human Rights Standards Reflected?
Ka Lok Yip – What does the Jurisdictional Hurdle under International Human RightLaw mean for the Relationship between International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law?
Annyssa Bellal and Ezequiel Heffes – ‘Yes, I do’: Binding Armed Non-State Actors to IHL and Human Rights Norms through their Cons