The Law of Belligerant Occupation
"What are the rights and obligations of “Occupying Powers,” the legal term for countries that occupy an adversary’s territory?"
Michael N. Schmitt is Professor of International Law at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. In this article, he notes that "As growing portions of Iraq fall to U.S. and British forces, it is a propitious time to review the basic requirements of that body of law."
We recommend Schmitt's tour of The Annexed Regulations to Hague Convention IV of 1907, the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, and customary international law setting forth the laws of belligerent occupation applicable in this conflict.
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