Harvard International Law Journal

The oldest and most-cited student-edited journal of international law, the Harvard International Law Journal covers a wide variety of topics in public and private international law.

Providing a Right of Self-Defense Against Large-Scale Attacks by Irregular Forces

Filed Under: Student Features

I. INTRODUCTION*

During the escalation of the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. Security Council (“SC”) intervened with Resolution 1701 on August 11, 2006. The ambiguity of this resolution does not appear to provide any help in the debate among political scientists and legal scholars on the highly complex Israeli-Lebanese crisis in understanding the positions of the two parties to the dispute on the basis of norms of international law.

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