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International Law
Thursday
08
May
Francesco Romani 

Book Launch: Belligerent Reprisals from Enforcement to Reciprocity

Francesco Romani 
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Geneva Graduate Institute, Maison de la paix, room S5

Join us for the book launch with  Francesco Romani  author of  "Belligerent Reprisals from Enforcement to Reciprocity".

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Belligerent Reprisals from Enforcement to Reciprocity 

This book challenges the traditional understanding of belligerent reprisals as a mechanism aimed at enforcing the laws of armed conflict. 

By re-instating reciprocity at the core of belligerent reprisals, it construes them as tools designed to re-calibrate the legal relationship between parties to armed conflict and pursue the belligerents' equality of rights and obligations in both a formal and a substantive sense. It combines an inquiry into the conceptual issues surrounding the notion of belligerent reprisals, with an analysis of State and international practice on their purpose and function. 

Encompassing international and non-international armed conflicts, it provides a first comprehensive account of the role of reprisals in governing legal interaction during wartime, and offers new grounds to address questions on their applicability, lawfulness, regulation, and desirability. 
 

Presenter

Francesco Romani is a research fellow at the Geneva Academy. He completed his PhD at the Geneva Graduate Institute. 
 

Discussant 

TBD

 

Book Cover

 

Romani F. Belligerent Reprisals from Enforcement to Reciprocity. In: Belligerent Reprisals from Enforcement to Reciprocity: A New Theory of Retaliation in Conflict. Cambridge University Press; 2024:i-ii.

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