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International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Exploring Parallel Application

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2007

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Bruce W. Wayne Emeritus Professor of International Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Professor of Law, Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster and Ramat Gan Law School.

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Senior Legal and Policy Adviser, International Committee of the Red Cross, Israel, the Occupied and Autonomous Territories. Views expressed herein do not represent the views of the ICRC.

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Hersch Lauterpacht Chair in Public International Law, Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

References

1 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Advisory Opinion, 2004 I.C.J. 163 (July 9), at para. 112; Case Concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (DRC v. Uganda), 2005 I.C.J. 116 (Dec. 19), at paras. 216-217.

2 See, e.g., Isayeva v. Russia, 2005 Eur. Ct. H.R. 128; Abella v. Argentina, Case 11.137, Inter-Am. C.H.R. Report No. 55/97, OEA/Ser.L/V/II.98, doc 6 rev (1997), at para. 157-171.

3 See Dennis, Michael J., Application of Human Rights Treaties Extraterritorially in Times of Armed Conflict and Military Occupation, 99 Am. J. Int'l. L. 119 (2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4 See, e.g., Meron, Theodor, The Humanization of Humanitarian Law, 94 Am. J. Int'l L. 239 (2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Kretzmer, David, Targeted Killing of Suspected Terrorists: Extra-judicial Executions or Legitimate Means of Defence?, 16 Eur. J. Int'l L. 171 (2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Ben-Naftali, Oma & Shany, Yuval, Living in Denial: The Application of Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, 37 Isr. L. Rev. 17 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Doswald-Beck, Louise & Vité, Sylvain, International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law, 293 Int'l Rev. Red Cross 94 (1993)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Also see Provost, Rene, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (2002)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Watkin, Kenneth, Controlling the Use of Force: A Role for Human Rights Norms in Contemporary Armed Conflict, 98 Am. J. Int'l L. 1 (2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5 Al-Skeini v. Sec. of State for Defence [2005] EWCA 1609 (Civ.). On appeal, the House of Lords largely upheld the Court of Appeal judgment. Al-Skeini v. Sec. of State for Defence, [2007] UKHL 26, [2007] 3 All E.R. 865.