Martina Selmi


Jennifer Welsh contributes chapter to “The Grey Zone: Civilian Protection Between Human Rights and the Laws of War”

Jennifer Welsh contributes chapter “The Responsibility to Protect and Non-State Armed Groups” to the newly-published book The Grey Zone: Civilian Protection Between Human Rights and the Laws of War. The volume brings together contributions from leading academic authorities and legal practitioners on the situation of civilians in the grey zone between human rights and the laws […]

Book Review Essay: The International Criminal Court and Its Effects on Active Armed Conflicts – by Ruben Reike

Ruben Reike contributes book review essay  “The International Criminal Court and Its Effects on Active Armed Conflicts” to the Journal of Intervention and Statebuilding. The article reviews the following books: The International Criminal Court in Ongoing Intrastate Conflicts: Navigating the Peace–Justice Divide by Patrick S. Wegner. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015. pp. ix + 333 + […]

The IOW project is recruiting a Post-Doctoral Researcher

The IOW project is looking for a Research Associate / Post-Doctoral Researcher to conduct research on the application of human rights law in armed conflict, and international criminal law; contribute to the writing of books, papers and articles on the extraterritorial application of human rights law, the relationship between human rights law and the law […]

Arbitrary Withholding of Consent to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Armed Conflict – an article by Dapo Akande and Emanuela-Chiara Gillard

The UN Secretary-General has identified enhancing humanitarian access as one of the five core challenges to the protection of civilians in armed conflict. In recent years considerable attention has been devoted to identifying and mapping a wide range of practical constraints with respect to humanitarian operations and attempting to find ways of overcoming—or at least mitigating—their […]

Dapo Akande co-authors Article on the International Legal Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones

Dapo Akande has recently published a piece on the International Legal Framework Regulating the Use of Armed Drones. The article, published in the October 2016 issue of the International and Comparative Law Quarterly and available here, was co-authored with Christof Heyns – who was UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial, Summary and Arbitrary Executions – and 2 […]

Launch of Oxford Guidance on the Law Relating to Humanitarian Relief Operations in Situations of Armed Conflict

In many, if not most, armed conflicts, far more deaths occur as a result of the humanitarian crisis created by the conflict rather than from hostilities. However, in many recent conflicts humanitarian actors have faced serious challenges in delivering much-needed relief supplies and services to civilians in need. The United Nations Secretary-General, in his recent […]