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Part II Sources, Ch.3 Customary Humanitarian Law Today

Theodor Meron

From: The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict

Edited By: Andrew Clapham, Paola Gaeta, Tom Haeck (Assistant Editor), Alice Priddy (Assistant Editor)

Content type:
Book content
Product:
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law [OSAIL]
Series:
Oxford Handbooks in Law
Published in print:
13 March 2014
ISBN:
9780199559695

From: Oxford Public International Law (http://opil.ouplaw.com). (c) Oxford University Press, 2023. All Rights Reserved.date: 22 September 2023

Subject(s):
Customary international law — Armed conflict, non-international
The roots of the revival of customary humanitarian law can be traced back to the Nuremberg trials. Customary law was essential to the Nuremberg tribunals’ ability to convict Nazi war criminals. The tribunals, including the International Military Tribunal, could not rely heavily on treaties because the Soviet Union had not ratified the 1929 Geneva Convention on Prisoners of War and because the application of The Hague Convention No IV was challenged on the ground that the situation of the belligerents did not conform with its si omnes clause, as not all the...
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