Public international law: humanitarian law

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

An eyewitness account of the first major international war-crimes tribunal since the Nuremberg trials, Twilight of Impunity is a gripping guide to the prosecution of Slobodan Milosevic for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.

This book introduces students to the essential questions of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law.

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the entities responsible for the production of data on armed conflicts (DAC), the processes by which it is generated, and the international norms that govern it.

The high civilian death toll in modern, protracted conflicts such as those in Syria or Iraq indicate the limits of international law in offering protections to civilians at risk.

The book examines the international treaty regimes and the Indian laws in depth.

This book examines how the functioning of the International Criminal Court has become a forum of convergence between the common law and civil law criminal justice systems.

Addresses challenges to the implementation of international human rights law from institutional, normative and practical perspectives.

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

The Bush Administration has notoriously argued that detainees at Guantanamo do not enjoy constitutional rights because they are held outside American borders.

This edited volume critically examines the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) as a guiding norm in international politics.

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

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

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

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

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

In this hugely influential book, originally published in 2001 but just as - if not more - relevant today, Mark Duffield shows how war has become an integral component of development discourse.

The first monograph analysing all legal regimes applicable to the use of less-lethal weapons.

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had previously been exclusively for generals and commanders.

Since 1996, when new, harsher deportation laws went into effect, the United States has deported millions of noncitizens back to their countries of origin.

The law of occupation imposes two types of obligations on an army that seizes control of enemy land during armed conflict: obligations to respect and protect the inhabitants and their rights, and an obligation to respect the sovereign rights of the ousted government.

This Manual provides an up-to-date restatement of existing international law applicable to the conduct of air and missile warfare.

This contributed volume examines the trend whereby the EU resorts ever more often to informal arrangements and deals with third countries in an effort to curb and manage migration flows towards the EU and facilitate the return of irregular migrants to their countries of origin or transit.

This book explores the historical origins of victory.

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.

This book examines reciprocity between asymmetrical sides in war and conflict.

The recent spate of threats to cultural heritage, including in Iraq, Mali, Nepal, Syria, and Yemen, has led to increased focus on the sources of international cultural heritage law.

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

This book explores the human rights consequences of the new mercenarism, as channeled through so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs), and offers an overview of the evolution and status quo of both non-legal (soft law and self-regulation) and legal initiatives seeking to limit them.

Since the end of the last century, UN peacekeeping has undergone a fundamental and largely unexamined change.

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

This book comprises contributions by leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law on the subject of the categorisation or classification of armed conflict.

Yoram Dinstein''s influential War, Aggression and Self-Defence is an indispensable guide to the international legal issues of war and peace.

The long-awaited second edition of this seminal text, reconceived as a critical analysis of the world''s leading comparative asylum jurisprudence.

A constant yet oftentimes concealed practice in war has been the use of informers and collaborators by parties to an armed conflict.

This book addresses the technological evolution of modern warfare due to unmanned systems and the growing capacity for cyberwarfare.

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.

This first-of-its-kind volume revisits current findings on ADHD in terms of classic thinking on developmental neuropsychology for a more rounded concept of brain disorganization.

Drone Wars presents a diverse and comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective on drones and the current state of the field.

This volume compiles lessons learned by field researchers, many of whom have faced demanding situations characterized by violence, distrust and social fragmentation.

This book brings together leading experts to explore contemporary issues facing the laws of war.

An examination of the scope of States'' right of self-defence under Article 51 of the UN Charter in the post-9/11 security environment.

This is the first book to focus on the theoretical and practical issues of export control.

This textbook examines a wide range of humanitarian action issues in five parts, presented by specialists from different academic fields.

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

David Luban analyzes the torture debate in the struggle against terrorism from a sophisticated philosophical and legal perspective.

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

This book provides expert analysis of the impact of international and national courts on the development of international law applying to armed conflicts.