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Bridging the Divide Between Academia and Practice in International Humanitarian Law by Geoffrey S. Corn
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Both academia and the military legal community are playing crucial roles in the development of international humanitarian law, more commonly referred to in the profession of arms as the law of armed conflict. This leads to an important question: is there a sufficient “cross-leveling” of expertise between these two groups to ensure that this development is informed by both scholarly exploration and practical experience? In the opinion of this author (and many of my former military colleagues and current academic colleagues), the answer to this question is no.