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Few would nowadays question that, as a matter of positive law, human rights law applies to armed conflict. Once confined to human rights courts, this principle is now settled in the jurisprudence of a wide range of international and domestic courts. Law of armed conflict specialists however remain concerned about the suitability of human rights law to regulate war. Furthermore – and perhaps even more crucially – the application of human rights law to war entails a radical, although often unnoted, change in the relationship between law and war. Can human rights regulate war? Are we sure that this development is an example of moral and legal progress?

This lecture, entitled 'The Devil and the Holy Water: Will Human Rights Tame War or Will War Corrupt Human Rights?', was delivered at the Lauterpacht Centre on Friday 25 October 2013 by Professor Guglielmo Verdirame, Professor of International Law at the Department of War Studies and the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. 

Will Human Rights Tame War or Will War Corrupt Human Rights?

hese lectures suggest a number of different ways in which to take Shakespeare's comedies seriously, and to appreciate how seriously he took them. They weren't meant to give the students a general introduction, but rather to support their other work on Shakespeare by suggesting some different angles from which to approach him.

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