Venue: German Historical Institute Paris
Date: 14-16 January 2015
Organisation: Steffen Prauser (IHA) and Hanna Sonkajärvi (Universidad del Pais Vasco)
Wednesday 14th January 2015
14h30 Welcome and Registration
Thomas Maissen (Director of the IHA), Hanna Sonkajärvi (Universidad del País Vasco), Steffen Prauser (IHA),
15h00 Military Justice in the Early Modern Period
Sandro Wiggerich (Universität Münster), Why Military Justice? – History of an Argument
PD Dr. Markus Meumann (Universität Erfurt), Searching for the Origins of the Conseils de Guerre in Seventeenth Century France
Discussion followed by a coffee break
16h30 Family, Gender, and Eighteenth Century Military Justice
Maria Sjöberg (Gothenburg University), Family Matters and Military Justice in Eighteenth Century Wars
Marianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University), Creating a Model Citizen: Sex Crimes and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Russia
Discussion followed by a leg stretch
18h00 Laws of War in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
Renaud Morieux (Cambridge University), The Laws of War and the Laws of the Prison. French and British Prisoners of War in the Eighteenth Century
Jakob Zollmann (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung), N.N.
Discussion
Thursday 15th January 2015
9h15 Military Justice in the First World War
Sebastian Steiner (Universität Bern), Between Peace and War: Swiss military justice in the First World War
Terry Patton (Open University), Field General Courts Martial in the British army during the First World War
Discussion followed by a coffee break
10h45 Decolonisation and International Law I
Fabian Klose (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz), Decolonization and International Humanitarian Law
Kerstin von Lingen (Universität Heidelberg), Transcultural Legal Debates in the wake of Cold War and Decolonization: The impact of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) on International Law
Discussion
12h00 Lunch
14h00 Decolonisation and International Law II
Andrew Thompson (University of Exeter), Rewriting the Geneva Conventions: Political Detention, Article 3 and Decolonisation
Discussion
14h45 European Military Courts in the Aftermath of the Second World War in Asia
Lisette Schouten (Universität Heidelberg), Justice in times of turmoil. Postwar trials in the Dutch East Indies, 1946-1949
Anne-Schoepfel-Aboukrat (Universität Heidelberg), War, War Crimes, Power and Justice: the French Military Court in Saigon (1946–1951)
Discussion followed by a coffee break
16h15 The Laws of War in the First World War
Daniel Palmieri, (Archives Unit International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva), Une autre forme de justice ? Le CICR face aux violations de la Convention de Genève durant la Grande Guerre
Discussion
17h00 N.N. (Talk of representative of the Minister of Defence) followed by a coffee break
18h00h Key note speech
Karma Nabulsi (University of Oxford), From Grotius to the Present: Ideal Theory as an Instrument for Legitimising War Crimes. How the Modern Laws of War are under Siege by a New Language Re-Defining the Nature of War, the Distinction between Combatants and Non-Combatants, and the Rights of Civilian Populations
Comments opening the discussion: Céline Spector, Université Bordeaux Montaigne
Friday 16th January 2015
9h15 Military Courts in the aftermath of the Second World War in China and Russia
Anja Bihler (Universität Heidelberg), Japanese War Crimes and the Post-World War II Interpretation of the Laws of War in the Republic of China
Valentyna Polunina (Universität Heidelberg), The development of Soviet war crimes trials policy during and after the Second World War
Discussion followed by a coffee break
10h45h Ethical and Legal Issues of Today’s Military Operations
Peter Gray (University of Birmingham), Drone Law: Legal Issues on the Use of Remotely Piloted Vehicles
Michael L. Gross (University of Haifa), May Guerrillas Use Human Shields to Defend Against Drones and other Threats?
Discussion
12h00 Summing up (Hanna Sonkajärvi (Universidad del País Vasco) Steffen Prauser (IHA))
Entrée libre sur réservation préalable: event@dhi-paris.fr