Posthumous Existence and the Law: The (Il)legality of Withholding Dead Bodies by States -The Case of Israel

我感兴趣的是国家扣留“敌人”尸体以获取政治利益的做法。使用已被杀害的敌人尸体作为“人质”在国际法中没有解释，在法律的文献中也很少受到关注。利用以色列最高法院的众多裁决以及比较法律的来源，我的目的是探讨国际法和国内法的规范如何管理（或不管理）“死后人质”劫持，以及，只要有一个法律的空白，是否可以制定明确的权利和义务的规定。

I am interested in the state practice of withholding the dead bodies of 'enemies' in order to use them for political gain. The use of enemy bodies who have been killed as 'hostages' is unaccounted for in international law and has received little attention within legal literature. Using numerous Supreme Court rulings from Israel as well as comparative legal sources, I aim to explore how the norms of international and domestic law govern (or fail to govern) 'posthumous hostage' taking, and, insofar as there is a legal lacuna, whether clear provisions of rights and obligations could be formulated.