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Venue: German Historical Institute ParisDate: 14-16 January 2015Organisation: Steffen Prauser (IHA) and Hanna Sonkajärvi (Universidad del Pais Vasco)Conference Programme:Wednesday 14th January 201514h30                Welcome and RegistrationThomas Maissen (Director of the IHA), Hanna Sonkajärvi (Universidad del País Vasco), Steffen Prauser (IHA),15h00                Military Justice in the Early Modern PeriodSandro Wiggerich (Universität Münster), Why Military Justice? - History of an ArgumentPD Dr. Markus Meumann (Universität Erfurt), Searching for the Origins of the Conseils de Guerre in Seventeenth Century FranceDiscussion followed by a coffee break16h30                Family, Gender, and Eighteenth Century Military JusticeMaria Sjöberg (Gothenburg University), Family Matters and Military Justice in Eighteenth Century WarsMarianna Muravyeva (Oxford Brookes University), Creating a Model Citizen: Sex Crimes and the Military in Eighteenth-Century RussiaDiscussion followed by a leg stretch18h00                Laws of War in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth CenturiesRenaud Morieux (Cambridge University), The Laws of War and the Laws of the Prison. French and British Prisoners of War in the Eighteenth CenturyJakob Zollmann (Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung),  N.N.DiscussionThursday 15th January 20159h15                  Military Justice in the First World WarSebastian Steiner (Universität Bern), Between Peace and War: Swiss military justice in the First World WarTerry Patton (Open University), Field General Courts Martial in the British army during the First World WarDiscussion followed by a coffee break10h45                Decolonisation and International Law IFabian Klose (Leibniz Institute of European History Mainz), Decolonization and International Humanitarian LawKerstin von Lingen (Universität Heidelberg), Transcultural Legal Debates in the wake of Cold War and Decolonization: The impact of the United Nations War Crimes Commission (UNWCC) on International LawDiscussion12h00                Lunch14h00                Decolonisation and International Law IIAndrew Thompson (University of Exeter), Rewriting the Geneva Conventions: Political Detention, Article 3 and DecolonisationDiscussion14h45                European Military Courts in the Aftermath of the Second World War in AsiaLisette Schouten (Universität Heidelberg), Justice in times of turmoil. Postwar trials in the Dutch East Indies, 1946-1949Anne-Schoepfel-Aboukrat (Universität Heidelberg), War, War Crimes, Power and Justice: the French Military Court in Saigon (1946–1951)Discussion followed by a coffee break16h15                The Laws of War in the First World WarDaniel Palmieri, (Archives Unit International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Geneva), Une autre forme de justice ? Le CICR face aux violations de la Convention de Genève durant la Grande GuerreDiscussion17h00                N.N. (Talk of representative of the Minister of Defence) followed by a coffee break18h00h              Key note speechKarma Nabulsi (University of Oxford), From Grotius to the Present: Ideal Theory as an Instrument for Legitimising War Crimes. How the Modern Laws of War are under Siege by a New Language Re-Defining the Nature of War, the Distinction between Combatants and Non-Combatants, and the Rights of Civilian PopulationsComments opening the discussion: Céline Spector, Université Bordeaux MontaigneFriday 16th January 20159h15                  Military Courts in the aftermath of the Second World War in China and RussiaAnja Bihler (Universität Heidelberg), Japanese War Crimes and the Post-World War II Interpretation of the Laws of War in the Republic of ChinaValentyna Polunina (Universität Heidelberg), The development of Soviet war crimes trials policy during and after the Second World WarDiscussion followed by a coffee break10h45h              Ethical and Legal Issues of Today’s Military OperationsPeter Gray (University of Birmingham), Drone Law: Legal Issues on the Use of Remotely Piloted VehiclesMichael L. Gross (University of Haifa), May Guerrillas Use Human Shields to Defend Against Drones and other Threats?Discussion12h00                Summing up (Hanna Sonkajärvi (Universidad del País Vasco) Steffen Prauser (IHA))Entrée libre sur réservation préalable: event@dhi-paris.fr