Public international law: humanitarian law

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

International law is increasingly applied in domestic courts.

Studies what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and the transition from violence.

The laws are not silent in war, but what should they say?

Commentary on the European Convention and a groundbreaking work of theory which challenges human rights orthodoxy.

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

Addresses the military''s pursuit of ''usable'' weaponry that is deliberately crafted to be less powerful, less deadly, and less destructive than the systems it is designed to supplement or replace.

This book seeks to decolonize practices of arms control and disarmament.

Examines a trio of key concepts that help to stabilize states and the international order: human rights, democracy, and legitimacy.

Critically analyses how institutional actors interact on the international scene in the control and management of migration in the Mediterranean.

This book examines the Supreme Court''s proper role in adjudicating moral controversies that implicate constitutional rights.

The technological characteristics of drones, together with the law, have been instrumental in expanding warfare in time and space in the counter-terrorism context.

A comprehensive analysis into the lawfulness of state-sponsored targeted killings under international human rights and humanitarian law, this book examines treaties, custom and general principles of law to determine the normative paradigms which govern the intentional use of lethal force against selected individuals in law enforcement and the conduct of hostilities.

An evaluation of the importance of reciprocity in considering states'' legal obligations in armed conflicts.

This book provides an analysis of whether the International Criminal Court can be regarded as an International Criminal World Court, capable of exercising its jurisdiction upon every individual despite the fact that not every State is a Party to the Rome Statute.

Does international law make perpetrators responsible for war crimes committed during civil wars?

Article-by-article commentary on the Third Geneva Convention based on latest practice, case law, academic commentary and ICRC experience.

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?

The imperatives of sovereignty, human rights and national security very often pull in different directions, yet the relations between these three different notions are considerably more subtle than those of simple opposition.

An examination of the historical narratives surrounding humanitarian intervention, presenting an undogmatic, alternative history of human rights protection.

The most comprehensive analysis of the right to effective domestic remedies in the European Convention on Human Rights Article 13.

An evaluation of the importance of reciprocity in considering states'' legal obligations in armed conflicts.

Understanding the global security environment and delivering the necessary governance responses is a central challenge of the 21st century.

The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law sets out a Black Letter text of international humanitarian law accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts.

At the turn of the millennium, a new phenomenon emerged: conservatives, who just decades before had rejected the expanding human rights culture, began to embrace human rights in order to advance their political goals.

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

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.

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.

Rejecting the assumption that migration is a ''crisis'' for Europe, Squire explores alternative responses which provide openings for a renewed humanism.

Critically analyses states'' obligations to control PMSCs in armed conflict and assesses how PMSC misconduct may lead to state responsibility.

This book brings together the viewpoints of leading scholars and policy makers on the topic of exceptional courts and military commissions.

Despite the disasters of Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and ever more visible evidence of the horrors of war, the concepts of 'Humanitarian Intervention' and 'Just War' enjoy widespread legitimacy and continue to exercise an unshakeable grip on our imaginations.

The first comprehensive monograph on the defence of superior orders after the second world war, which remains pre-eminent in the field, the republication of this highly-sophisticated work once again makes this book available to scholars and students in the field.

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

This book examines the challenges posed to contemporary international law by the shifting role of the border, which has recently re-emerged as a central issue in international relations.

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

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 is the third 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.

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

Analyses the legal implications of non-international armed conflicts at a time when their number is constantly growing.

This volume of essays examines challenges presented by non-state actors, quasi-legal norms, and gaps within normative and institutional frameworks.

This book explores the extent to which the International Criminal Court (ICC) has influenced peace processes in Cote d'Ivoire, Kenya and Uganda.

Over the past ten years the content and application of international law in armed conflict has changed dramatically.

An extensive analysis of the norms and legal institutions of the African Union and their relevance to Africa''s quest for peace.

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

This is the first volume of a projected four-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.

Countering mainstream theories, this book focuses on the expanding institutionalisation of international law.

Addresses the military''s pursuit of ''usable'' weaponry that is deliberately crafted to be less powerful, less deadly, and less destructive than the systems it is designed to supplement or replace.