Robert McLaughlin

This book examines potential legal challenges arising from the use of new technologies and future directions of legal development in light of the characteristics and challenges each technology presents with regard to humanitarian impact upon the battlespace. Meer

Prior to the progressive development of the law of armed conflict heralded by the 1949 Geneva Conventions — most particularly in relation to the concepts of international and non-international armed conflict-the customary doctrine on recognition of belligerency functioned for almost 200 years as the definitive legal scheme for differentiating internal conflict from "civil wars", in which the law of war as applicable between states applied de jure. Meer