POL340Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Ant-Zen, Advisory Opinion, Federal Republic
26 Apr 2017
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Lecture 15: introduction to international humanitarian law (january 19th, 2017) Class outline: general, jus ad bellum (instead of jus in bello, role of the security council, responsibility to protect, legality of the use of force: yugoslavia v. belgium case, with sc, without sc. General: oldest part of il, dealing with proper & improper wages to wage war. Emerged after ww2 & began to accelerate over the last 30 years. International criminal law is a branch of ihl. Intl" community must punish individuals for their breach of il: has two main areas: Jus ad bellum" (instead of jus in bello": right to war. A set of criteria that are to be consulted before engaging in war in order to determine whether entering into war is permissible: when states are allowed to use force . Governs the way in which warfare is conducted. Certain actions are violations of jus in bello.
