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Britta Sjöstedt

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Enhancing Environmental Protection in Relation to Armed Conflict: An Assessment of the ILC Draft Principles

Author

  • Daniëlla Dam-de Jong
  • Britta Sjöstedt

Summary, in English

This article examines the outcome of the International Law Commission’s (ILC) Study on the Protection of the Environment in relation to Armed Conflict as adopted on first reading. The twenty-eight draft principles, adopted by the ILC in July 2019, aim to enhance environmental protection before, during, and after armed conflict. This article evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of the draft principles and highlights principal innovations of the draft principles. Then this article concludes that the ILC study makes important substantive contributions to enhancing environmental protection, but it also misses opportunities to advance the law in this field. The principal strength of the study is that it brings in many different aspects relating to the environment and armed conflicts under one framework, including legal questions that were hitherto neglected. Its weaknesses relate most notably to the protection of the environment during armed conflict. This article argues that, even though there was limited space for the ILC to develop the applicable law in this field, it nevertheless could have been more ambitious.

Department/s

  • Department of Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Public International Law

Publishing year

2021

Language

English

Pages

129-156

Publication/Series

Loyola of Los Angeles International and Comparative Law Review

Volume

44

Issue

2

Document type

Journal article

Topic

  • Law

Keywords

  • Environmental law
  • Public international law
  • Miljörätt
  • Folkrätt

Status

Published

Research group

  • Environmental Law
  • Public International Law

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 0277-5417