Armed Conflicts and the Law (paperback) (Student edition)

Philip De Man studied Law at the University of Antwerp from 2001 through 2006. He performed an internship with the Permanent Representation of Belgium with the United Nations, New York, as Advisor on Development issues in the Second Committee of the General Assembly.He has interned with the Association of Defence Counsel practising before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, for the Defence in Popovic et al. He assigned as Legal Assistant and Case Manager to the Defence in the same case from July 2007 through March 2008.He was later employed as Legal Researcher with the Srebrenica Historical Project (2008).In 2008 he started as Junior Legal Researcher attached to the Institute for International Law and the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies at Leuven University.Nele Verlinden joined the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies as a PhD fellow in 2014. The working title of her PhD is 'Are we at war?' State support to armed conflict: gradation, international consequences and national parliamentary accountability. Her research is supported by the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).She previously worked as a legal adviser in the arms unit of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), where her work mainly focused on the Arms Trade Treaty. She also worked as a consultant for the customary law database of the ICRC and as a legal attach in the ICRC's legal division. Nele obtained a Master of Laws (summa cum laude) from the KU Leuven in 2011, including one year of exchange studies at the Universit Capitole 1 in Toulouse, France. With the support of the Swiss government and the OaK Foundation, she moved to Geneva and obtained an LL.M in International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights Law (summa cum laude) from the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights.