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The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2018/The Development of Humanity as a Constraint on the Conduct of War

The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2018/The Development of Humanity as a... The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2018 The Development of Humanity as a Constraint on the Conduct of War Tim McCormack *, Siobhain Galea** and Daniel Westbury*** I Preliminary Remarks I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we meet. 1 I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging. I deeply respect and admire the ability of the Ngunnawal, and of many other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to ha -ve sur vived invasion and violent dispossession of their land and to have maintained the richness of their cultural, linguistic, legal and spiritual traditions. On the subject matter of my lecture, humanity as a constraint on the conduct of war, I acknowledge that many of our Aboriginal peoples were extended little, if any, humanity in the colonial violence to which they were subjected. This is cer - tainly true of the frontier wars in my own State of Tasmania (Van Diemen’s Land) in the 1820s and 1830s which resulted in the near annihilation of Aborigi - nality in the colon2y Social D . arwinism influenced the justificatory view that * Tim McCormack is Dean of the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Australian Year Book of International Law Online Brill

The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2018/The Development of Humanity as a Constraint on the Conduct of War

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The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2018 The Development of Humanity as a Constraint on the Conduct of War Tim McCormack *, Siobhain Galea** and Daniel Westbury*** I Preliminary Remarks I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people as the traditional owners and custodians of the land on which we meet. 1 I pay my respects to their elders, past, present and emerging. I deeply respect and admire the ability of the Ngunnawal, and of many other Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, to ha -ve sur vived invasion and violent dispossession of their land and to have maintained the richness of their cultural, linguistic, legal and spiritual traditions. On the subject matter of my lecture, humanity as a constraint on the conduct of war, I acknowledge that many of our Aboriginal peoples were extended little, if any, humanity in the colonial violence to which they were subjected. This is cer - tainly true of the frontier wars in my own State of Tasmania (Van Diemen’s Land) in the 1820s and 1830s which resulted in the near annihilation of Aborigi - nality in the colon2y Social D . arwinism influenced the justificatory view that * Tim McCormack is Dean of the

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The Australian Year Book of International Law Online – Brill

Published: Jun 22, 2020

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