Public international law: humanitarian law

The legal consequence of the superior orders defense has long been debated as one of the major problems in international criminal law.

This book offers an in-depth analysis of the problem of mistakes of fact in connection with the law of state responsibility - mistakes which have significant implications for global governance and legal certainty that have yet to be fully mapped out in contemporary international law.

Provides a multi-perspective study of the international law on self-defence against non-State actors.

This unique work of reference traces the origins of the modern laws of warfare from the earliest times to the present day.

This book addresses questions in connection with the international legal regime on demands for secession, which have arisen in various States.

Innovative history of how volunteers helped build a global consensus that Western development intervention across the Global South was desirable.

This book examines the position of 'contextual elements' as a constitutive element of the legal definition of the crime of genocide, and determines the extent to which an individual genocidaire is required to act within a particular genocidal context.

This analysis of international law using social movement theory provides a fundamental critique of international law.

This book analyses two key topics within international politics: the responsibility to protect (R2P) and the commercialization and privatization of security.

The book outlines legal limits to the veto power of UN Security Council permanent members while atrocity crimes are occurring.

This is a comprehensive Report on every armed conflict which took place during 2012.

The reconstruction of Kosovo after 1999 was one of the largest and most ambitious international interventions in a post-conflict country.

Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.

The history of international criminal justice told through the revealing stories of some of its primary intellectual figures.

At a time when human rights are coming under increasing pressure, in-depth knowledge and understanding of their foundations, conceptual underpinnings and current practice remain crucial.

This book offers a multidisciplinary treatment of targeting.

Promoting cultural and scientific creativity, and knowledge and understanding, cultural rights work as atrocity prevention tools and enable people to aspire to a better future.

The book focuses, through multiple levels of international reality, on the pervasive and widespread effect of the Syrian civil war on the unravelling of established norms---both global or national--- which have determined international relations during the last seven decades.

Comprehensive analysis of international law''s protection of women''s rights in armed conflict, with an emphasis on how these protections operate in practice.

This book critically re-evaluates the problem of sex between international personnel and local people and offers regulatory solutions to legal problems.

This book considers the Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child on a communication procedure as a key contributor to the realization of children's Article 12 Convention on the Rights of the Child participation rights.

The principle of proportionality is one of the corner-stones of international humanitarian law.

This book brings together the viewpoints of leading scholars and policy makers on the topic of exceptional courts and military commissions.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

Litigating War offers an in-depth examination of the law and procedure of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, which was tasked with deciding, through binding arbitration, claims for losses, damages, and injuries resulting from the 1998-2000 Eritrean-Ethiopian war.

Attacks on humanitarian aid operations are both a symptom and a weapon of modern warfare, and as armed groups increasingly target aid workers for violence, relief operations are curtailed in places where civilians are most in need.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

This 2006 book seeks to promote a legal regime to protect the holy sites.

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century.

The book considers how speech on social media during an armed conflict could potentially be considered a criminal offence.

Analyses the expansion of the nuclear arms control regime, evaluating Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty negotiations and preparations for on-site inspections.

The only book addressed to both law students and military officers undergoing training in the law of armed conflict.

This book examines selected legal complexities of the notion of torture and the issue of the proper foundation for legally characterizing certain acts as torture, especially when children are the targeted victims of torture.

This book situates the war in Syria within the actual and imagined system of international criminal justice.

The book makes a comprehensive analysis of the basic principles and theories of military law, restructuring the theoretic framework of military law.

Overshadowed for many years by the Nuremberg trials, the Tokyo Trial--one of the major events in the aftermath of World War II--has elicited renewed interest since the 50th anniversary of the war's end.

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently.

This timely handbook offers an examination of man's history of war crimes and the parallel development of rules of war to prevent them in the future.

Analysis of how to prevent war and reinforce UN systems by imposing accountability on individuals and states for the unlawful use of force.

This multidisciplinary book introduces readers to original perspectives on crimmigration that foster holistic, contextual, and critical appreciation of the concept in Australia and its individual consequences and broader effects.

'Child Soldiers and the Lubanga Case' and 'The Tallinn Manual on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Warfare' are the two central themes of this volume.

At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals.

This book examines the processes through which the resolutions adopted by the UN General Assembly acquire legal significance through state practice.

The new edition of this essential text offers a comprehensive, critical and future-thinking commentary on international environmental law.

This book describes militias as significant and prevalent actors in today's international security environment.

From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human rights practitioners have access to more data today than ever before.

This book examines the hard legal core, if any, of the "e;Responsibility to Protect (R2P)"e; concept with regard to the commitment to take collective action through the UN Security Council.

From events at Nuremberg and Tokyo after World War II, to the recent trials of Slobodan Milo evi and Saddam Hussein, war crimes trials are an increasingly pervasive feature of the aftermath of conflict.