Activities of military administrations under martial law in Ukraine

Martial Law and the State of Siege

Military involvement in law enforcement

Law enforcement is not a task usually undertaken by military forces, at least within domestic legal contexts. Conversely, maintaining or restoring security within dysfunctional or ‘post-conflict’ areas of operation is a role commonly undertaken by them. Within these latter operations, the skill sets and highly calibrated application of force that are commonly associated with police forces in th...

From Hunting to Battle: Martial and Military Themes in Qajar Painting

Qajar pictorial arts contain different themes such as political and courtly, heroic and epic, religious, romantic, erotic and sensual, and decorative (vegetal and geometric). Among all these we should consider another subcategory, i.e. military theme. The numerous works in this field have been manifested in various media, including oil paintings, watercolors, wall paintings, tilework, lithograp...

Improving Public Administrations via Law Modeling and BPR

Semantic Web technologies can be used to produce conceptual representations of legal documents and to perform reasoning on the information that they contain. At the same time, Business Process Reengineering is being applied more frequently to optimize the procedures of Public Administrations. While the existing literature on tools and methodologies to analyze, model and manipulate legal documen...

Private military companies: their status under international humanitarian law and its impact on their regulation

States are increasingly hiring private military companies to act in zones where armed conflicts are occurring. The predominant feeling in the international community is that it would be best to regulate such companies. Cognizant of much confusion as to the status of the employees of private military companies under international humanitarian law, this article explains the laws on mercenaries, c...