Check out this new article by a few members of our department!
In this article, PhD Student Helyeh Doutaghi and faculty member Christiane Wilke critically assess the Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare, an important early attempt to regulate bombing from the air. Doutaghi and Wilke show that the Hague Rules responded to the then new technology with new legal concepts and logics. While the Hague Rules introduced the concept of the civilian, they also implicitly excluded non-European non-combatants, and commentators were eager to exclude European munitions workers from the civilian status as well. As a result of accepting and accommodating the imprecision of early 20th century planes, the Hague Rules paved the way for excusing allegedly unintentional and/or unforeseen civilian casualties.
This article is open access and can be found here.