Shari’a Law and Military Operations Seminar Sponsored by INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HIGHER STUDIES IN CRIMINAL SCIENCES (ISISC) NATO SCHOOL OBERAMMERGAU

The seminar offered an introduction to Shari'a Law, specifically discussing crime and punishment in the law of armed conflict, religiously motivated political violence, women's and minorities' rights and operational issues. This seminar is offered because of its immediate importance to NATO's ongoing missions: the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF), Kosovo Force (KFOR), support to the African Union mission in Somalia (NSM Somalia) and for the African Standby Force and NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A); and NATO's numerous supporting relationships with Mediterranean Dialogue Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia), Istanbul Cooperation Initiative countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, UAE, Qatar) and other countries such as Pakistan where Shari'a Law applies.

The Status of Boko Haram under Islamic and International Humanitarian Law

link to event webpage

Recent Developments in International Criminal Law: Hopes and Fears

Event on the ICC - Tuesday 15 October 2013 

17:30-19:00 

British Institute 

of International and 

Comparative Law

More than a decade after the creation of the International Criminal Court, 

international criminal law can be seen as a complex and ever growing legal 

system. This seminar will assess recent developments in theory and practice of 

international criminal law, such as contribution of a comparative perspective for 

the advancement of international criminal law, the position of victims before 

international criminal tribunals and current developments related to the legal 

framework of the Rome Statute.

Chair 

Rodney Dixon, Temple Garden Chambers

Keynote speaker

Howard Morrison, Judge at the International Criminal Court

Discussants

Dr Mohamed Elewa Badar, Northumbria School of Law 

Gaelle Carayon, REDRESS

International Criminal Court Summer School at the Irish Centre of Human Rights and book launch

Ius in Bello under Islamic International Law

Mohamed Elewa Badar, 'Ius in Bello under Islamic International Law' 

(2013) International Criminal Law Review , Volume 13, Issue 3

http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/10.1163/15718123-0130300


In 1966, Judge Jessup of the International Court of Justice pointed out that the appearance of an English translation of the teaching on the ‘Islamic law of nations’ of an eighth-century Islamic jurist (Shaybānī) is particularly timely and of so much interest because of the debate over the question whether the international law, of which Hugo Grotius is often called the father, is so completely Western-European in inspiration and outlook as to make it unsuitable for universal application in the context of a much wider and more varied international community of States. However, there has been little analysis of the role of Islam in shaping the modern European law of war and its progeny, international humanitarian law. This article argues that there is a room for the contribution of the Islamic civilisation within international humanitarian law and a conversation between different civilisations is needed in developing and applying international humanitarian law norms.





Affiliations: 1: Senior Lecturer, International and Comparative Criminal Law, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Co-Director, Centre for International & Public Law (CIPL), Brunel Law School, Brunel University, London, UK

CIPL guest Dr Shirin Ebadi, gave a talk entitled The Situation of Human Rights in Iran and its Impact on the Arab Spring

The Concept of Mens Rea in International Criminal Law

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