Volume 24 of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) is
dedicated to investigating IHL's universalist claims from different
perspectives and regarding different areas of IHL. While academic
debates about "universalism versus particularism" have dominated much of
the critical scholarship in international law over the past two decades,
they remain relatively underexplored in the field of IHL. The current
volume fills this gap in IHL literature by focusing on the ways in which
different interpretive communities approach questions of IHL from
differing perspectives. Authors were invited to use the concept of
culture to deconstruct and take critical distance from the production,
interpretation, and application of IHL, and those keen on challenging
the idea that IHL needs critical deconstruction were also invited to
argue their case.
The Volume contains four articles dedicated to the subject of cultures
of IHL. It also features a book symposium on Samuel Moyn's Humane: How
The United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021) and ends, as
usual, with a Year in Review section.
The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law is a leading annual
publication devoted to the study of international humanitarian law. The
Yearbook has always strived to be at the forefront of the debate of
pressing doctrinal questions of IHL and will continue to do so in the
future. As this volume shows, it is also a forum for taking a step back
and reflecting on the broader, theoretical issues that inform the
practice and thinking about the field. The Yearbook provides an
international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles
focusing on this crucial branch of international law.
Distinguished by contemporary relevance, it bridges the gap between
theory and practice and serves as a useful reference tool for scholars,
practitioners, military personnel, civil servants, diplomats, human
rights workers and students.
