Laws of War Book Talk
Join the Human Rights Center for a conversation and virtual launch recognizing two new, groundbreaking books on the laws of war. Dr Giovanni Mantilla, Lawmaking under Pressure and Dr Craig Jones The War Lawyers will share their work and discuss the role of war lawyers in regulating conflict, the origins and development of the international humanitarian law, and how the rules regulate international and internal armed conflict today. Professor Naz Modirzadeh, Director of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict, will moderate this discussion.
This event is hosted by The University of Minnesota’s Human Rights Center and the Department of Political Science.
About the authors:
Dr. Giovanni Mantilla is University Lecturer in the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) and Fellow of Christ’s College, Cambridge and of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Dr. Mantilla received his Ph.D. in Political Science in 2013 from the University of Minnesota, has held Postdoctoral positions at Princeton University’s Niehaus Center for Globalization and Governance, and at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. He was also a British Academy Newton Fellow. Prior to Cambridge, Dr. Mantilla taught at Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas (CIDE) in Mexico City.Â
Dr. Craig Jones joined the Newcastle University School of Geography, Politics, and Sociology in early 2017. Before moving to Newcastle, he was a PhD student in Geography at the University of British Columbia. Dr. Jones is interested in war and (para)military violence, conflict medicine and forced displacement, the geographies of international law and the contemporary Middle East and North Africa.
About the moderator:
Professor Naz K. Modirzadeh is the founding Director of the Harvard Law School Program on International Law and Armed Conflict (HLS PILAC). In May 2016, she was appointed as a Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School. At HLS PILAC, Modirzadeh is responsible for overall direction of the Program, contributing to its cutting-edge research initiatives and briefing senior decision-makers.