Public international law: humanitarian law

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

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

This book is a contemporary, comprehensive, and accessible text on the use of force and international law suitable for a range of audiences.

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

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim''s right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

This book is a practical guide to freeing political prisoners and provides a comprehensive review of this UN body''s 1,200 jurisprudence cases.

Explores the normative foundation of international humanitarian law by developing and defending a new theory of military necessity.

An analysis of how the European Convention on Human Rights applies to military operations.

Explains how existing and proposed law seek to tackle challenges posed by new and emerging technologies in war and peace.

Explores how international law applies to transitional governance from a multi-actor perspective in conflict-riven countries.

A close examination of the interface between autonomous technologies and the law with legal analysis grounded in technological realities.

Explores how international law applies to transitional governance from a multi-actor perspective in conflict-riven countries.

A close examination of the interface between autonomous technologies and the law with legal analysis grounded in technological realities.

A new perspective on the history of transitional justice and why the discourse prioritises particular responses to human rights violations.

A comprehensive and timely analysis of the prospects for peace and justice in Colombia.

This book describes how international law regulates the problems that arise where economic activity meets violent conflict.

A comprehensive look at the toll US government policies took on civil liberties, human rights, and the rule of law in the name of the war on terror.

Countering mainstream theories, this book focuses on the expanding institutionalisation of international law.

Provides case studies of the intersection of diplomacy and transitional judicial processes during humanitarian crises in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, and Libya.

A comprehensive and timely analysis of the prospects for peace and justice in Colombia.

Humanitarian disarmament is not new, but instead represents a re-emergence of a long-standing sensibility in disarmament discourse

Community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - help people take on injustice.

Challenges the persistent orthodoxies of the Tokyo tribunal and provides a new framework for evaluating the trial, revealing its importance to international jurisprudence.

Three experts address reparation for victims of armed conflict, drawing on international law practice, human rights courts, and domestic law.

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

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

Three experts address reparation for victims of armed conflict, drawing on international law practice, human rights courts, and domestic law.

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between international law and peace settlement practice over core settlement issues.

Addresses some fundamental issues underlying the regime of belligerent occupation.

Community paralegals - sometimes called barefoot lawyers - help people take on injustice.

Provides a comprehensive assessment of the relationship between international law and peace settlement practice over core settlement issues.

Addresses some fundamental issues underlying the regime of belligerent occupation.

Provides case studies of the intersection of diplomacy and transitional judicial processes during humanitarian crises in Rwanda, Bosnia, Kosovo, Darfur, and Libya.

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 authoritative manual on the applicable international law and best practice in the planning and conduct of peace operations.

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

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

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

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

This book considers and clarifies many different facets of the international human right to a healthy environment.

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

Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

This book studies the principles and practice of extending a country''s criminal law to offences committed abroad by their armed forces personnel.

This book studies the principles and practice of extending a country''s criminal law to offences committed abroad by their armed forces personnel.

This book examines how justice and reconciliation in world politics should be conceived in response to the injustice and alienation of modern colonialism?

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

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

This book expands the current ''weapon of war'' discourse on sexual violence, highlighting a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women.

This book expands the current ''weapon of war'' discourse on sexual violence, highlighting a wider spectrum of conflict-related violence against women.

The book teaches how to minimize the social welfare losses from the major market - and regulatory - failures.