Sixteenth Annual Grotius Lecture Response*: The Post-Postcolonial Woman or Child
Journal: American University international law review
Year: 2015

'Let the child be excused by his age, the woman by her sex,' says Seneca in the treatise in which he vents his anger upon anger.2 So wrote the namesake of this lecture, Hugo Grotius, in his masterwork entitled The Law of War and Peace. With that quotation, Let the child be excused by his age, the woman by her sex, Grotius traced to the writings of an ancient Roman philosopher the injunction against harming women and children in time of war. Grotius's reiteration of Seneca's words tacitly admitte