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The Employment of Legal Advisers and Teachers of Law in the Armed Forces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 January 2010

Dieter Fleck*
Affiliation:
Federal Ministry of Defence, Bonn

Extract

During the past few years, activities for the dissemination of international law applicable in armed conflicts have increased substantially. Yet there is no doubt that these efforts will have to be further intensified in order to reflect the increasing importance of humanitarian law in modern armed conflicts.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 1973

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Footnotes

*

Paper submitted to the Seminar of the International Institute of Humanitarian Law on the Teaching of Humanitarian Law in Military Institutions (San Remo, 6–18 November 1972).

References

1 Model for the Employment of Legal Advisers and Teachers of Law in the Armed Forces, submitted by the Experts of the Federal Republic of Germany, Conference of Government Experts on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, Second Session, Geneva 3 May-3 June 1972, CE/COM IV/23.

2 ICRC, Conference of Red Cross Experts on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, The Hague, 1–6 March 1971, Report on the Work of the Conference, Geneva, 04 1971, p. 29.Google Scholar

3 ICRC, Conference of Red Cross Experts on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, Second Session, Vienna, 20–24 March 1972, Report on the Work of the Conference, Geneva, 04 1972, p. 48.Google Scholar

4 ICRC, Conference of Government Experts on the Reaffirmation and Development of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, Geneva, 24 May-12 June 1971, Report on the Work of the Conference, Geneva, 08 1971, paras. 578 nd 579.Google Scholar

5 ICRC, Questionnaire concerning measures intended to reinforce the implementation of the Geneva Conventions of August 12, 1949, Replies sent by Governments, Geneva, April 1972, p. 3.

6 Second Session, CE/COM IV/10, Proposal submitted by the Experts of Denmark, Article (iii).

7 Cf. Krueger-Sprengel, The German Military Legal System, in Military Law Review, Vol. 57 (1972), pp. 17 et seq.Google Scholar

8 Now generally known as “Innere Fuhrung”.