PART ONE: Introduction 1. Making and Shaping: An Overview Sandesh Sivakumaran and Christian R. Burne PART TWO: Foundational Materials 2. Where Vienna and Geneva Meet: Treaty Interpretation and the Geneva Conventions Jean-Marie Henckaerts 3. Customary International Law: A Transformative Force in the Landscape of IHL Katharine Fortin 4. Principles of International Humanitarian Law: A New Framework Jeroen van den Boogaard 5. Soft Law: What is it Good For? Michael W. Meier PART THREE: Actors and Influences 6.

Expert Manuals: An Insider's Account Michael N. Schmitt 7. The Development of International Humanitarian Law by the International Committee of the Red Cross Sandesh Sivakumaran 8. Applying the Law of Armed Conflict in Domestic Courts: The Fusion of Domestic and International Law and the Question of IHL Expertise Yahli Shereshevsky 9. The Development of the Law of Armed Conflict by International Criminal Tribunals Martha M. Bradley 10. The Role of Human Rights Mechanisms in Shaping International Humanitarian Law Alessandra Spadaro 11. Applying and Interpreting the Law of Armed Conflict: Contributions by the United Nations Commissions on the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of South Sudan Yousuf Syed Khan 12.

Non-State Armed Groups, Law-Making, and the Shaping of International Law in Armed Conflict Ezequiel Heffes PART FOUR: Spaces 13. The Role of Regionalism in the Making and Shaping of the Law of Armed Conflict Gus Waschefort 14. Between War and the Text: The Pedagogical Life of International Humanitarian Law Rebecca Sutton PART FIVE: Unmaking 15. A Prologue to Law of War Unmaking Sean Watts.