Public international law: humanitarian law

Faced with the scale of global challenges such as poverty and inequality, one question is where to start.

The proliferation of non-state armed groups and non-international armed conflicts since the end of the Second World War has challenged the legal frameworks which govern conduct in armed conflict.

This book seeks to bridge the gap between academic, political and military thinking concerning the success and failure of peacekeeping operations and their termination.

The instinctual desire to support those in need, irrespective of geographic, cultural or religious links, is both facilitated and overwhelmed by the extent of information now available about the multiple humanitarian crises which occur on a daily basis around the world.

Die Nachkriegsprozesse gegen Ilse Koch, die Ehefrau des Kommandanten von BuchenwaldIlse Koch war die Ehefrau des SS-Kommandanten von Buchenwald und eine der wenigen verurteilten NS-Täterinnen.

This collection of essays explores the legal and moral questions that arise at the end of war and in the transition to less oppressive regimes.

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

This book provides the first comprehensive legal analysis of the twelve war crimes trials held in the American zone of occupation between 1946 and 1949, collectively known as the Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMTs).

Ten new essays critique the practice armed humanitarian intervention, and the 'Responsibility to Protect' doctrine that advocates its use under certain circumstances.

A thorough introduction to the laws of war, the savagery of war crimes, and the international system that demands justice.

The Geneva Conventions are the best-known and longest-established laws governing warfare, but what difference do they make to how states engage in armed conflict?

Offers an overview of international law, policy and practice on nuclear weapons.

Rule of Law in War places international law at the centre of the transformation of United States counterinsurgency (COIN) that occurred during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

This book deals with urgency and human rights.

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

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

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

This textbook offers valuable insights into the nexus between geography, geopolitics, and humanitarian action.

This is the second volume of a projected five-volume series charting the causes of war from 3000 BCE to the present day, written by a leading international lawyer, and using as its principal materials the documentary history of international law, largely in the form of treaties and the negotiations which led up to them.

The number of non-state actors, in the past not accountable for committing international crimes or violating human rights, is proliferating rapidly.

This book aims to delineate major ethical challenges faced by human rights INGOs.

This book explores the objects, means and ends of international cultural heritage protection.

International organizations have increasingly taken on state or quasi state-like functions in order to exercise control over individuals and societies, most pressingly in contexts of conflict and transition.

This book offers new insights and original empirical research on private military and security companies (PMSCs), including China's negotiation approach to governance, an account of Nigeria's first engagement with regulatory cooperation under the threat of Boko Haram, and a study of PMSCs in Ebola-hit Western Africa.

This book contends that the right of access to justice (at national and international levels) constitutes a basic cornerstone of the international protection of human rights, and conforms a true right to the Law.

Provides detailed assessments of law applicable to the most difficult problems encountered during modern armed conflicts and coalitions.

The question of the legality of humanitarian intervention is, at first blush, a simple one.

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.

Drawing on international, state and private sector case studies and a global survey, this book examines local engagement in disaster relief.

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

The legality of preemptive strikes is one of the most controversial questions of contemporary international law.

This is the first book to provide an overview of the processes and practices of transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific region.

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

The result of a three-year project, this manual addresses the entire spectrum of international legal issues raised by cyber warfare.

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.

International law is increasingly applied in domestic courts.

The current challenges and potential future of peacekeeping in an increasingly complex world take center stage in this far-reaching collection.

In 1997, many countries came together to pledge $500 million over five years to 'mine action' programmes to tackle the destruction caused by landmines.

This book presents thirteen chapters which probe the "e;tales less told"e; and "e;pathways less traveled"e; in refugee camp living.

Human security provides one of the most important protections; a person-centred axis of freedom from fear, from want and to live with dignity.

International Refugee Law and the Protection of Stateless Persons examines the extent to which the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees protectsde jure stateless persons.

This book discusses the multilayered legal structures concerning the regulation of crimes under international law.

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

This book addresses the intersection of various domains of international law (refugee law, human rights law including child rights international law and humanitarian law) in terms of the implications for State obligations to child refugee asylum seekers in particular; both as collectives and as individual persons.

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

This book provides the first comprehensive analysis of factors that transform a prima facie non-international armed conflict (NIAC) into an international armed conflict (IAC) and the consequences that follow from this process of internationalization.