{"id":7,"date":"2018-02-01T09:43:54","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T09:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/upgrade-fragmentation-contestation\/?page_id=7"},"modified":"2021-05-28T15:54:16","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T14:54:16","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research in International Law at the BSIS is clustered around questions that engage the performative significance of the International Law of Armed Conflict within a context of institutional and interpretative fragmentation. The focus of this research theme is accordingly on the overlap and contestation between various international law regimes \u2013 international humanitarian law, international criminal law, international human rights law \u2013 and how they come to interact with, influence and potentially govern situations of actual or emerging global conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Special attention is directed at the role of practice and how regimes of international law become used not only by states but also by non-state actors and international lawyers. In this way, the International Law of Armed Conflict is understood as a historic but no less dynamic project situated at the intersection of normative ideals and an evolving professional practice.<\/p>\n<div>Prof. Yutaka Arai is engaged in research in the doctrines and theories on international humanitarian law and international human rights law.\u00a0 Impact of his research in the case-law can be see in citation of his works by the Court and individual opinions of judges of the\u00a0European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). These include:\u00a0 ECtHR, Grand Chamber,\u00a0<em>Svinarenko and Slyadnev v. Russia<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Applications nos.\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng#{%22appno%22:[%2232541\/08%22]}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>32541\/08<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/hudoc.echr.coe.int\/eng#{%22appno%22:[%2243441\/08%22]}\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>43441\/08<\/em><\/a><em>),\u00a0<\/em>(2014), Concurring Opinion of Judge Silvis, fn 3; ECtHR, Grand Ch,\u00a0<em>Chiragov and Others v. Armenia<\/em><em>\u00a0<\/em>(2015), para. 96; and partly Diss. Opinion of Judge Hajiyev; ECtHR, Grd Ch,\u00a0<em>Sargsyan v. Azerbaijan,\u00a0<\/em>(2015), para. 94.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Research in International Law at the BSIS is clustered around questions that engage the performative significance of the International Law of Armed Conflict within a context of institutional and interpretative fragmentation. The focus of this research theme is accordingly on the overlap and contestation between various international law regimes \u2013 international humanitarian law, international criminal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":112,"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7\/revisions\/112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/research.kent.ac.uk\/fragmentation-contestation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}