Chivalry: a principle of the law of armed conflict?

Authors
Publication date 2013
Host editors
  • M. Matthee
  • B. Toebes
  • M. Brus
Book title Armed conflict and international law: in search of the human face
Book subtitle Liber amicorum in memory of Avril McDonald
ISBN
  • 9789067049177
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9789067049184
Pages (from-to) 33-51
Publisher The Hague: Asser Press
Organisations
  • Faculty of Law (FdR) - Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL)
Abstract This contribution explores the role and relevance of chivalry in relation to warfare past and present and its relationship to the law of armed conflict and poses the question whether it still is a principle of that body of the law. It also briefly addresses the question of what its potential relevance is as a guiding principle in the interpretation of legal and extra legal obligations alongside rules contained in conventional and customary law.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-918-4_2
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