Public international law: humanitarian law

This book presents a case study of human trafficking from Nigeria to the UK, with a focus on practical measures for ending this trafficking.

A critical analysis of Israel''s control of the Occupied Palestinian Territory, advocating a normative and functional approach.

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

An international legal analysis of the UN Security Council''s agenda on Women, Peace and Security (WPS).

La Trata de Seres Humanos constituye una grave violación de los derechos humanos, de la dignidad y de la libertad de las personas.

This book, a follow-up publication to the 2016 volume Foreign Fighters under International Law and Beyond, zooms in on the responses that the international community and individual States are implementing in response to (prospective and actual) returning foreign fighters (FFs) and their families, focusing on returnees from Syria and Iraq to European countries.

Zehn Jahre nach dem Inkrafttreten des Völkerstrafgesetzbuches (VStGB) vereinigt der vorliegende Sammelband unterschiedliche Blickwinkel und Perspektiven auf das noch junge Gesetzeswerk und dessen Praxis.

This book is a tribute to the work of Professor Terry Gill, offered to him by friends and colleagues who are also academics and/or practitioners in the field of International Law of Military Operations (ILMO).

This book retraces the evolution of crimes against humanity and their application in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content.

This book explores the large and controversial subject of the use of force in international law.

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.

This book introduces readers to the major human rights institutions, courts, and tribunals and critically assesses their legacy as well as the promise they hold for realizing human rights globally, and the challenges they face in doing so.

Today the majority of the armed conflicts around the world are fought between States and armed groups, rather than between States.

This book seeks to understand how and why we should hold leaders responsible for the collective mass atrocities that are committed in times of conflict.

The book tells (and analyzes) the story of the United Nations multidimensional stabilization operation in Mali (MINUSMA), which closed at the end of the 2023 after almost a decade of existence.

An examination of the concept of non-international armed conflict in international humanitarian law, first published in 2009.

A comprehensive analysis of the international law applicable to cyber operations, including a systematic study of attribution, lawfulness and remedies.

Bringing together the law of armed conflict governing the use of weapons into a single volume, the fully updated Second Edition of Weapons and the Law of Armed Conflict interprets these rules and discusses the factors influencing future developments in weapons law.

This book examines notions of procedural fairness applicable to truth commissions.

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

This book explores the continuing legacy of the Peace Process in the everyday life of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

This book uses empirical research on three international criminal tribunals to understand how law and history are combined in the courtroom.

This book presents ten original essays that reassess the meaning, relevance, and legacy of Michael Walzer's classic, Just and Unjust Wars.

Shows that the shari''a and Islamic law are compatible with contemporary international human rights laws and norms, and appropriate for use in Muslim societies.

This book is based on an international project conducted by the Institute for European Studies of the University CEU San Pablo in Madrid and a seminar on Vitoria and International Law which took place on July 2nd 2015 in the convent of San Esteban, the place where Vitoria spent his most productive years as Chair of Theology at the University of Salamanca.

This book investigates the legal implications of ''gray area'' military operations in counterinsurgency, cyber warfare and the war on terror.

Why would anyone commit a mass atrocity such as genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, or terrorism?

Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war-a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination.

How do mass atrocities end?

Russia's annexation of Crimea and involvement in the conflict in eastern Ukraine has in many respects set back post-Cold War improved relations between Russia, the United States, and Europe.

In this book, it is explained that despite a current drop in the number of deaths, terrorism should still be considered a serious and widespread problem.

The UK's new Human Rights Act with its duty to give domestic effect to the European Convention on Human Rights and the jurisprudence of the Strasbourg court will have a significant effect on many aspects of the criminal and regulatory process.

This book examines the methodological problems of accounting for the dead in armed conflicts as well as how the process itself is open to manipulation and controversy.

Although the relationship between international human rights law and the law of armed conflict has been the subject of significant recent academic discussion, there remains a lack of comprehensive guidance in identifying the law applicable to specific situations faced by military forces.

Humanitarian protection has evolved from an act of charity into a legal obligation not to remove certain categories of non-nationals.

This book analyzes civil wars over the past twenty years and examines what motivates some rebel groups to abide by international law.

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

This book provides an examination of whether there is a legally independent ''principle of humanity'' in international humanitarian law.

This comprehensive reference work serves as an important resource for anyone interested in the international prosecution of war crimes and how it has evolved.

This book examines the challenges posed by the largely unfamiliar culture in which the Special Court for Sierra Leone operates.

This book addresses a potential radiation incident caused by the war in Ukraine, from an interdisciplinary approach of medical, nuclear safety and security, nuclear research, geostrategic and population's resilience perspectives.

Thurgood Marshall became a living icon of civil rights when he argued Brown v.

A legal and historical analysis of the first modern attempts to prosecute national leaders for embarking upon aggressive war.

Since World War II, there have been some 250 conflicts throughout the world, leaving between 70-170 million atrocity crime victims.

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.

This book develops ''Collective Equality'' as a new theoretical basis for the law of peace and for transitional justice.