Law in War: Targeting, Legal Reasoning and the Use of Force in Armed Conflict

Lead Research Organisation: University of Liverpool
Department Name: Law

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Studentship Projects

Project Reference Relationship Related To Start End Student Name
ES/P000665/1 30/09/2017 29/09/2027
1949392 Studentship ES/P000665/1 30/09/2017 30/03/2022 Alexander Holder
 
Description This project is in the process of seeking to demonstrate that the 'legality' of military activities is ill-conceived as being the product of retrospective assessments of the legal status of any given military operation. Instead, this project is seeking to demonstrate that legality is the product of the situated activities of those individuals who are actually involved in military operations. It is my hope that this distinction between legality as 'internal achievement' rather than 'external assessment' will have ramifications upon the status of state's claims to 'compliance' with international law during the negotiations that take place in international institutions like the UN.
Exploitation Route My project is funded as a CASE studentship in collaboration with Article-36, a specialist non-profit organisation that focuses on reducing the harm caused by certain weapons through advocacy at both an international and domestic level. Their work is oriented towards the development of new policies and legal standards to prevent civilian harm caused by existing and emerging weapons, and we believe that the work produced in this collaboration may play a role in the ways in which Article 36 can challenge the rhetoric of compliance with international law that is often used by states to stifle the development of regulatory frameworks.
Sectors Aerospace

Defence and Marine

Security and Diplomacy