Public international law: humanitarian law

An analysis of the history of transitional justice from the fifth century BC to the present, first published in 2004.

This book explores the new powers and inherent dangers of non-lethal weapons.

A unique insight into the changing role and structure of the United Nations.

An examination of the ethical and political issues raised by the responses of Western states to refugees.

This 2004 book considers customary international law and the application of the rule to, among others, human rights protection and international organizations.

A timely book which considers aspects of human rights law and the armed forces.

This 2006 text examines the international legal instruments and case law relevant to humanitarian and human rights law.

Examines how the concept of ''obligations to the whole international community'' influences international law.

Coverage of developments in anti-terrorism law and policy on six continents by world experts.

This book reviews the war on terror since 9/11 from a human rights perspective.

The first comprehensive analysis of the human rights of refugees under international law.

Indicates a legal framework capable of addressing events such as ''9/11'' and governing responses thereto.

Hilaire McCoubrey wrote extensively on armed conflict law, collective security law and the law relating to arms control.

This 2005 volume is a history of war, from an international law perspective, from Roman times to the present.

Documents US Government attempts to justify torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices in ongoing hostilities.

Aims to offer an easily accessible overview of the protection available to internally displaced persons.

Jayawickrama explores the judicial interpretation of human rights law from all available sources.

Assesses the rights of refugees and asylum seekers and contrasts international law with state practice.

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

This revised 2002 edition considers new legislation relating to the death penalty in international law.

A discussion of issues of accountability in international law of internal armed groups.

Evaluation by experts involved in the implementation of the Charter, including Commissioners, NGOs and academics.

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

Alongside a panel of experts, the UNHCR examines the interpretation of the 1951 Refugee Convention.

Examination of laws to protect civilians in internal armed conflict, from the nineteenth century onwards.

Knop''s investigation takes a new approach to the problem of diversity and self-determination of peoples.

A consideration of the legal remedies available to victims of actions by international organizations.

Provost examines how international human rights and humanitarian law protect vulnerable individuals during peace and war.

An exploration of ''ethical foreign policy'', instruments of ethical foreign policy-making, and three case studies.

This book delves into the complexities of genocide as a legal concept, offering a fresh perspective by exploring the rights of groups to exist under international criminal law.

Based on official records and reports, relevant secondary sources, and observations of members of the Convention's implementary organ, The Convention on the Rights of the Child describes and evaluates the first international human rights treaty to deal specifically with the rights and freedoms of the child.

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.

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

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

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

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

The introduction of the Human Rights Act has led to an explosion in books on human rights, yet no sustained examination of their history and philosophy exists in the burgeoning literature.

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.

A number of commentators assert that the military response to the terrorist atrocities of 11 September 2001 - encompassing attacks on Afghanistan and Iraq, and commonly referred to as the 'war on terror' - has significantly impacted upon the international law regulating resort to armed force by states (jus ad bellum), loosening the constraints on self-defence.

This book aims to resolve the dilemma regarding whether armed intervention as a response to gross human rights violations is ever legally justified without Security Council authorisation.

Principally, this book comprises a conceptual analysis of the illegality of a third-country national's stay by examining the boundaries of the overarching concept of illegality at the EU level.

Principally, this book comprises a conceptual analysis of the illegality of a third-country national's stay by examining the boundaries of the overarching concept of illegality at the EU level.

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 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 question of how to constrain states that commit severe abuses against their own citizens is as persistent as it is vexing.

'Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it' Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy**Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature**A devastating account of China's genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nomineeNury Turkel was born in a 're-education' camp in China at the height of the Cultural Revolution.

In June 1998, diplomats met in Rome to draft the Statute of an International Criminal Court.

From human trafficking to the smuggling of small arms to the looting of antiquities, illicit trade poses significant threats to international order.

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.