'The Law as to Reciprocity in Asymmetrical Warfare' by Professor Robbie Sabel
LCIL International Law Centre Podcast
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The Role of Reciprocity in the International Legal System
The idea of a supposition of the laws of war is an accepted idea. The late Leslie Green, who died in 2011, writes that when non-parties to the Geneva Convention made declarations accepting it, they were made on a critical reciprocal basis. And I look up some textbooks and they all refer to it. Detta writes that reciprocity is the root of the international legal system. He writes this on his, on his book in law of war.
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