Exploring the application of international law to humanitarian crises and
examining the role that the law plays in protecting human security during times of emergency.

Current Issue: Volume 14, Issue 2, November 2023

Editorial
Russell Buchan, Emily Crawford and Rain Liivoja

Articles

Sexual and Gender-Based Violence Committed by Non-State Armed Groups Against Women/Girls and LGBTI+ Persons in Non-International Armed Conflicts: Peru’s Case
Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo

Law, Language and War

Introduction to the Symposium on Law, Language and War
Emily Crawford

The Terminology of the Law of Warfare: A Linguistic Analysis of State Practice
Emily Crawford, Annabelle Lukin, and Jacqueline Mowbray

The International Laws of War: Linguistic Analysis from the Perspectives of Register, Corpus and Grammatical Patterning
Annabelle Lukin and Alexandra García Marrugo

International Humanitarian Law: Necessity, Distinction and the ‘Standard of Civilisation’
Matt Killingsworth

Filling the Gaps: The Expansion of International Humanitarian Law and the Juridification of the Free-Fighter
Amanda Alexander

Another Look at the Gendered Constitution of the Laws of War: Semantic Fields, Hegemonic Masculinities and the Reproduction of Heteronormativity
Frédéric Mégret

The Language of the Protection of Civilians Mandate and the Primary Responsibility of the State: A Legal Norm for Peace and Security
Tamer Morris

Book Reviews

Jelena Aparac, Business et droits de l’homme dans les conflits armés
Javier Tous

D. Kretzmer and Y. Ronen, The Occupation of Justice: The Supreme Court of Israel and the Occupied Territories (2nd edition)
Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller