In Europe
European jurists and treaty negotiators picked up Lieber's text and used it as the basis for negotiations that ultimately formed the basis of the Hague Convention of 1899, the first multilateral treaty setting out terms for the laws of land warfare. Some features of the Code are still evident in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.
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