Montreux Five Years On

This past fall, Laura A. Dickinson, Oswald Symister Colclough Research Professor of Law, worked with a team of five students from her government contracts seminar on a section of a "shadow report" evaluating the implementation of the "Montreux Principles." Several governments adopted the principles, which seek to improve regulation of private military contractors, after consulting with industry and humanitarian law groups five years ago. Alongside other academics and civil society organizations, Professor Dickinson's team circulated their findings at Montreux Plus Five, an intergovernmental conference held in Geneva last December, and at a release event at American University.