Public international law: humanitarian law

Focuses on the four individuals who created the world''s first international tribunals and how they sought justice for millions of victims.

The war on terror is remaking conventional warfare.

The Rise and Decline of a Global Security Actor investigates the rise of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) as a global security actor.

Moving speeches by Nobel Peace Laureate Elie Wiesel and Chilean human rights activist Carmen Quintana are highlights of the collection.

This book trenchantly diagnoses the law''s limits in making sense of mass atrocity.

A theoretical examination of the tense and uncertain relationship between the laws of war and human rights law.

Can international law regulate warfare?

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

This book analyses the primary relevant rules of international law applicable to extra-territorial use of force by states against non-state actors.

A comprehensive and detailed analysis of the international legal framework applying to private military and security companies in armed conflict.

Pasqualucci analyzes all aspects of the advisory jurisdiction, contentious jurisdiction, and provisional measures orders of the Court.

This is the first comprehensive analysis of the politics of war crimes trials.

Explores how international assistance shapes transitional justice around the world, and asks how civil society can play a larger role in them.

This is the first book to examine the shifting relationship between humanitarianism and the expansion, consolidation and postcolonial transformation of the Anglophone world across three centuries, from the antislavery campaign of the late eighteenth century to the role of NGOs balancing humanitarianism and human rights in the late twentieth century.

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This book examines the United Nations Security Council's authorisation of the use of force, considering the extensive body of UN Security Council resolutions across its now eighty years of existence.

Revisits the law of neutrality and discusses its relevance to contemporary international and non-international armed conflict.

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

Leading scholars and practitioners address the challenges in the adjudication of refugee claims from those fleeing violence and conflict.

Provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international humanitarian law.

This book analyses the ubiquitous housing, land and property challenges present in all conflict and post-conflict settings.

How do mass atrocities end?

International humanitarian law is the law that governs the conduct of participants during armed conflict.

This is the third edition of the pioneering work that has become the standard text in the field.

The book systematically analyses the relationship and interaction between rules of engagement (ROE) and the legal framework regulating armed conflicts, both at the international and national levels.

An article-by-article commentary on the Second Geneva Convention based on the latest practice, case law, academic critique and ICRC experience.

Over the past twenty-five years, significant changes in the conduct of wars have increasingly placed civilians in traditional military roles - employing civilians to execute drone strikes, the 'targeted killing' of suspected terrorists, the use of private security contractors in combat zones, and the spread of cyber attacks.

The primary purpose of this book is to demonstrate the scope that already exists for using international human rights law in English courts, regardless of its status as 'incorporated' or 'unincorporated'.

As dictatorships topple around the world and transitional regimes emerge from the political rubble, the new governments inherit a legacy of widespread repression against the civilian population.

The 'Legal Pluriverse' Surrounding Multinational Military Operations conceptualizes and examines the "e;Pluriverse"e;: the multiplicity of rules that apply to and regulate contemporary multinational missions, and the array of actors involved.

Shows how international law is central to ensuring the world''s safety from the threat or use of nuclear weapons.

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.

The application of the right to life during armed conflict is an issue that polarizes opinion and generates considerable debate.

This book provides an article-by-article commentary on the text of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) and its Annexes, one of the cornerstone disarmament and arms control agreements.

Challenges the paradigm of individual responsibility and examines the idea of holding groups accountable for wrongdoing.

The four Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1949, remain the fundamental basis of contemporary international humanitarian law.

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

An examination of the violence perpetrated against women in politically conflicted or militarized areas.

The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law sets out a Black Letter text of international humanitarian law accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts.

'Taxpayers are complicit in the illegal wars waged by their governments.

The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership.

This book explores the historical origins of victory.

This monograph provides a practical and operational perspective to the question of how to lawfully employ autonomous weapon systems (AWS) from the point-of-view of the technology's end-users: field commanders.

The Palestinian refugee question, resulting from the events surrounding the birth of the state of Israel seventy years ago, remains one of the largest and most protracted refugee crises of the post-WWII era.

The behind-the-scenes story of how today's war crimes tribunals came to beWithin days of Madeleine Albright's confirmation as U.

The ever-increasing use of technology is challenging the current status of the law, bringing about new problems and questions.

This volume of essays examines challenges presented by non-state actors, quasi-legal norms, and gaps within normative and institutional frameworks.

This book addresses the international legal obligation to protect economic, social, and cultural human rights in times of armed conflict and other situations of armed violence.