Public international law: humanitarian law

Terrorism and International Law: Accountability, Remedies, and Reform A Report of the IBA Task Force on Terrorism examines the developments in international law and practice in a dynamic and often controversial area.

What are the limits of human rights, and what do these limits mean?

At the 2005 UN World Summit, world leaders endorsed the international principle of Responsibility to Protect (R2P), acknowledging that they had a responsibility to protect their citizens from genocide and mass atrocities and pledging to act in cases where governments manifestly failed in their responsibility.

The essays in this volume are dedicated to Gareth Jones, the retiring Downing Professor of English Law at the University of Cambridge.

Pioneering study of the transition from war to peace and the birth of humanitarian rights after the Great War.

The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes.

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

This book analyses how existing international law limits the use of means of warfare utilising the properties of nanomaterials.

A comprehensive examination of the legal limits to the military commander''s assessment of military necessity during armed conflict.

This book offers a thematic and comprehensive account of international humanitarian law by juxtaposing key materials and targeted commentary.

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

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

Over the past twenty-five years, significant changes in the conduct of wars have increasingly placed civilians in traditional military roles - employing civilians to execute drone strikes, the 'targeted killing' of suspected terrorists, the use of private security contractors in combat zones, and the spread of cyber attacks.

Develops a coherent and realistic legal framework which strengthens the human rights protection and the accountability mechanisms in peace operations.

A comprehensive definition of autonomous weapons systems and their operation and what happens when they cause violations of international law.

Shortlisted for the 2008 Young Authors Inner Temple Book PrizeThere are believed to be about 700 million small arms and light weapons (SALW) in the world, often contributing to highly destabilising security and other concerns in international law.

This book reframes the historical, legal and moral discourse on the question of whether torture can be justified in exceptional circumstances.

The first comprehensive and systemic analysis of States'' weapons review obligation under international law underpinned by empirical research.

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

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.

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

An exploration into how uncertainty and political and ethical biases affect international law governing the use of force.

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

The Rights of Others examines the boundaries of political community by focusing on political membership.

The international community's efforts to halt child soldiering have yielded some successes.

The four Geneva Conventions, adopted in 1949, remain the fundamental basis of contemporary international humanitarian law.

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

This accessible account of the war in Iraq argues that US military actions constituted a criminal war of aggression.

This book celebrates the scholarship of Richard Baxter, former Judge of the International Court of Justice and former Professor of International Law at Harvard Law School.

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This book addresses the international legal obligation to protect economic, social, and cultural human rights in times of armed conflict and other situations of armed violence.

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

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

States invariably justify using force extraterritorially by reference to their right of self-defence.

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

Human Rights between Idealism and Realism presents human rights in action, focusing on their effectiveness as legal tools designed to benefit human beings.

This books asks, can the UN violate human rights, and if so, how can it be held accountable?

This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg.

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

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

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

Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility To Protect considers who should undertake humanitarian intervention in response to an ongoing or impending humanitarian crisis, such as found in Rwanda in early 1994, Kosovo in 1999, and Darfur more recently.

This book sets out the legal issues surrounding privatized peacekeepers, and asks the essential questions for the debate going forward.

The first comprehensive study of the challenges faced by children in establishing entitlement to refugee protection.

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