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Mr. Jean-Marie Henckaerts

Mr. Jean-Marie Henckaerts
Legal Adviser, Head of Unit
Legal Division
International Committee of the Red Cross

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Law of Armed Conflict
Where Vienna and Geneva Meet:
Treaty Interpretation and the Geneva Conventions
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Law of Armed Conflict
Where Vienna and Geneva Meet: Treaty Interpretation and the Geneva Conventions
A. Legal Instruments

Charter of the United Nations and Statute of the International Court of Justice, San Francisco, 26 June 1945.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 31.

Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 85.

Geneva Convention relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 135.

Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Geneva, 12 August 1949, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 75, p. 287.

Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 3.

Protocol additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the protection of victims of non-international armed conflicts (Protocol II), Geneva, 8 June 1977, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1125, p. 609.

International Law Commission, Draft articles on the law of treaties with commentaries, Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 1966, vol. II.

Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, Vienna, 23 May 1969, United Nations, Treaty Seriesvol. 1155, p. 331.

International Law Commission, Conclusions on subsequent agreements and subsequent practice in relation to the interpretation of treaties, Yearbook of the International Law Commission, 2018, vol. II, Part Two.

B. Jurisprudence
C. Documents

Swiss Federal Political Department, Final record of the diplomatic conference of Geneva of 1949: [convened by the Swiss federal Council for the establishment of international conventions for the protection of war victims and held at Geneva from April 21st to August 12th, 1949], Federal Political Department, Berne, 1950.

International Committee of the Red Cross, Commentary on the First Geneva Convention: Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field (Commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2016.

International Committee of the Red Cross, Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention: Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea (Commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2017.

International Committee of the Red Cross, Commentary on the Third Geneva Convention: Convention (III) relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War (Commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2021.

International Committee of the Red Cross, Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention: Convention (IV) relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (Commentaries on the 1949 Geneva Conventions), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, [forthcoming].