Milos Vec (University of Vienna, Chair for European Legal History & Permanent Fellow, Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte) présente une conférence intitulée « International Lawyers’ Failing. Outlawing Weapons as an Imperfect Project of Classical Law of War »

The talk analyses the intersection of the idea of pariah weapons with clashes between moral verdicts and legal bans in the nineteenth century. The industrial revolution and subsequent technological progress gave rise to the production and use of a new range of military weapons. How did international law and lawyers react to this development? Which legal arguments favored or opposed a ban “uniquely evil” weapons? The talk will also summarizes and interpretates the writings from the best-known authors of the so-called classical European law of nations, such as Hugo Grotius, Emer de Vattel, and Immanuel Kant, who provided long-lasting standards and criteria for outlawing weapons.

Organisé par le Centre canadien d’études allemandes et européennes (CCEAE)

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