Law at the bifurcation point: discussion of the conceptual study military problems of International Law (Discussion in the format of the “Round Table” based on the materials of Chapter 6 “Military problems of International Law” Volume III of the monograph “Military Law”)

Abstract

The year 2022 was marked by the publication of a number of interesting conceptual scientific publications in the most popular publishing houses of the country, research institutions and leading universities. One of such scientific works is Volume III of the monograph “Military Law”, published under the auspices of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, under the general editorship of the Director of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor A.N. Savenkov and Doctor of Law, Professor A.V. Kudashkin (I and II volumes published in 2021). The monograph under discussion bursts into the reader’s consciousness with a wide palette of issues under consideration, the theoretical breadth and methodological elaboration of which does not leave him indifferent. The subject of the theoretical discussion is Chapter 6 “Military problems of International Law” of Volume III “Main problems and promising areas of military legal research”, which contains six paragraphs in which current trends in the development of international military and military-technical cooperation, military problems of International and International Humanitarian Law, as well as international State responsibility are consistently studied and other questions. As a result of the discussion, it is noted that the scientific work under consideration is by its nature a conceptual knowledge of military problems of International Law, which accumulates in a systematic form the existing knowledge in the field of military aspects of International Law, opening up broad prospects for its study while studying at universities and conducting further research in this area of military legal knowledge.