International Humanitarian Law and Justice
In the last decade, there has been a turn to history in international humanitarian law and its accompanying fields. To examine this historization and to expand the current scope of scholarship, this book brings together scholars from various fields, including law, history, sociology, and international relations. Human rights law, international criminal law, and the law on the use of force are all explored across the texts four main themes: historiographies of selected fields of international law; evolution of specific international humanitarian law rules in the context of legal gaps and fault lines; emotions as a factor in international law; and how actors can influence history. This work will enhance and broaden readers knowledge of the field and serve as an excellent starting point for further research.
Mats Deland is Associate Professor in history and temporary lecturer at Mittuniversitet, Sundsvall, Sweden. His publications include Purgatorium (vol. 1, 2010, vol. 2, 2017) and he has expertise in Holocaust studies and Genocide studies, Urban history, Right-Wing Extremism, and the History of International Law.
Dr. Mark Klamberg (Jur. Dr. Stockholm University, LL.M. Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Jur. Kand. Lund University) is Associate Professor in international law at Stockholm University. He is the author of several publications on international criminal law, surveillance, privacy, and other fields of international law, including Evidence in International Criminal Trials: Confronting Legal Gaps and the Reconstruction of Disputed Events (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013) and Power and Law in the International Society International Relations as the Sociology of International Law (Routledge, 2015). He is the chief editor of the Commentary on the Law of the ICC (CLICC).
Pl Wrange (PhD, LL.M.) is Professor in public international law at Stockholm University and the Director of the Stockholm Center for International Law and Justice. He is a former principal legal advisor at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. He has published widely on international law, international relations and theory, and he has worked and consulted for the European Union, governments, and NGOs. He is currently working on a book on non-state actors, right authority, and the right to use military violence.
International Humanitarian Law and Justice
Historical and Sociological Perspectives
Edited by Mats Deland, Mark
Klamberg and Pl Wrange
First published 2019
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Names: Deland, Mats, editor. | Klamberg, Mark, editor. | Wrange, Pl, editor.
Title: International humanitarian law and justice: historical and sociological perspectives / Edited by Mats Deland, Mark Klamberg, and Pl Wrange.
Description: New York, NY: Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018024838 | ISBN 9781138477551 (hbk) | ISBN 9781351104432 (web pdf) | ISBN 9781351104425 (epub) | ISBN 9781351104418 (mobipocket)
Subjects: LCSH: Humanitarian lawHistory. | International lawSociological aspects. | Sociological jurisprudence.
Classification: LCC KZ6471 .I585 2018 | DDC 341.6/7dc2
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ISBN: 978-1-138-47755-1 (hbk)
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Mats Deland is Associate Professor in history and temporary lecturer at Mittuniversitet, Sundsvall, Sweden. His publications include Purgatorium (vol. 1, 2010, vol. 2, 2017) and he has expertise in Holocaust studies and Genocide studies, Urban history, Right-Wing Extremism, and the History of International Law. Email:
Anna Evangelidi is a PhD candidate and Graduate Teaching Assistant at The City Law School, City, University of London, United Kingdom. Email:
Alexandra Hofer is a PhD candidate in Public International Law at Ghent University. She has a Masters in International Relations, Peace, Conflict, and Security and a LL.M. in Public International Law from the Universit libre de Bruxelles. Prior to joining Ghent in Summer 2015, Alexandra completed an internship within the Trial Division of the International Criminal Court. Email:
Dr. Mark Klamberg (Jur. Dr. Stockholm University, LL.M. Raoul Wallenberg Institute and Jur. Kand. Lund University) is Associate Professor in international law at Stockholm University. He is the author of several publications on international criminal law, surveillance, privacy, and other fields of international law, including Evidence in International Criminal Trials: Confronting Legal Gaps and the Reconstruction of Disputed Events (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2013) and Power and Law in the International Society International Relations as the Sociology of International Law (Routledge, 2015). He is the chief editor of the Commentary on the Law of the ICC (CLICC). Email:
Mark Lewis is an Associate Professor of European History at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center (City University of New York). He received a BA from Stanford University and an MA and PhD from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the co-author of Himmlers Jewish Tailor: The Story of Holocaust Survivor Jacob Frank (Syracuse University Press, 2000) and the author of The Birth of the New Justice: The Internationalization of Crime and Punishment, 19191950 (Oxford University Press, 2014) The latter won the Fraenkel Prize from the Wiener Library (2013) and the inaugural Bronisaw Geremek Prize from the College of Europe and the Geremek Foundation (2015). Email:
Mateusz Pitkowski is a PhD Candidate at the University of Lodz, Poland. Attorney at law in District Bar Association in Lodz, Poland. He is a Researcher in international humanitarian law and the law of aerial warfare. Email:
