Raphael Van Steenberghe

About/Bio

Raphael Van Steenberghe is a Permanent Researcher of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (FNRS) at the Centre Charles de Visscher for International Law of the University of Louvain (Belgium); Lecturer in Humanitarian Law at this University and Guest Professor at the Royal Military School of Belgium as well as at the University of Lille (France). His research focuses on public international law, use of force, humanitarian law and international criminal law. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal on Use of Force and International Law (JUFIL). He has recently published two books, one on self-defence in public international law (Larcier, 2012) and the other on humanitarian law as a special regime in international law (Bruylant, 2013).

Recently Published

The Alleged Prohibition on Intervening in Civil Wars Is Still Alive after the Airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq: A Response to Dapo Akande and Zachary Vermeer

In a recent post on ‘The Airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq’ (hereafter “the post”), Dapo Akande and Zachary Vermeer argue that the legal justifications given by the states intervening in Iraq “seem to count against the existence of [a prohibition on intervening in civil wars] as part of contemporary international law”. The aim of this…

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