Dr SCARLETT MCARDLE's Outputs (2)

COVID-19 and the World Health Organization: further exposing weaknesses in the foundation of the law of responsibility (2024)
Book Chapter
McArdle, S. (2024). COVID-19 and the World Health Organization: further exposing weaknesses in the foundation of the law of responsibility. In A. Berkes, R. Collins, & R. Deplano (Eds.), Reassessing the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: From Theory to Practice (263-286). Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035309115.00023

The focus on the state within the development of the law of responsibility has left it stunted. The principles of responsibility in relation to organisations are problematic in themselves but become further limited when facing the growth of other non... Read More about COVID-19 and the World Health Organization: further exposing weaknesses in the foundation of the law of responsibility.

International Non-State Humanitarian Actors outside of the International Legal System: Can there be any Legal Consequences for Humanitarian Actors? (2021)
Journal Article
McArdle, S., & Shucksmith-Wesley, C. (2021). International Non-State Humanitarian Actors outside of the International Legal System: Can there be any Legal Consequences for Humanitarian Actors?. Journal of Conflict and Security Law, 26(3), 525-550. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcsl/krab018

Humanitarians are saviours, people employed by organisations that were created to provide neutral and professional help in times of conflict, disaster or other emergencies. We assume that we can trust the humanitarians.1 This, at least, is the theory... Read More about International Non-State Humanitarian Actors outside of the International Legal System: Can there be any Legal Consequences for Humanitarian Actors?.