Fair and Unfair Play: Regulating Means and Methods of Warfare

... hard, strike everywhere!” [ 2 ]. That approach was challenged by the Russian lawyer F.F. Martens who authored the famous “Martens Clause” on the need to introduce “the principles of humanity and the requirements of public conscience” into warfare. That Clause was later included in all key documents of humanitarian law. The international conferences in The Hague back in 1899 and 1907 brought about the so-called Law of The Hague, mainly dealing with rules of conducting hostilities and establishing limitations or prohibitions on specific means and methods ...