Article Title

Are the Geneva Conventions Out of Date?

Authors

Steven R. RatnerFollow

Abstract

The so-called war on terrorism has prompted calls for revisions to the 1949 Geneva Conventions on armed conflict and the 1977 Additional Protocols thereto in order to address terrorist-related warfare, but I believe that claims for a major reform of international humanitarian law are primised on a variety of misconceptions of that law.

The following essay is a revised version of one that orginally appeared at The Crimes of War Website (www.crimesofwar.org) as part of a debate on "Rethinking the Geneva Conventions."

Recommended Citation

Steven R. Ratner, Are the Geneva Conventions Out of Date?, 48 Law Quadrangle (formerly Law Quad Notes) - (2005).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/lqnotes/vol48/iss1/9