Military and defence law and civilian service law

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had previously been exclusively for generals and commanders.

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

On May 23, 1957, US Army Sergeant Robert Reynolds was acquitted of murdering Chinese officer Liu Ziran in Taiwan.

In countries such as Syria, Iraq, South Sudan, and Yemen, internationally recognized governments embroiled in protracted armed conflicts, and with very little control over their territory, have requested direct military assistance from other states.

This book explores a disciplinary matrix for the study of the law and governance concerning mining and minerals from a global perspective.

From going AWOL to collaborating with communists, assaulting fellow servicemen to marrying without permission, military crime during the Cold War offers a telling glimpse into a military undergoing a demographic and legal transformation.

In October 1948-one year after the creation of the U.

In this highly unusual role for a lawyer, the author found himself in 1998 having to learn on his feet at a frightening pace as the newly promoted senior legal advisor to the charismatic General Sir Mike Jackson, the commander who led the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps into strife-torn Kosovo the following year to restore some sort of normality in the aftermath of the NATO bombing campaign.

In recent history, planned violent attacks have persisted in the United States and abroad.

Necessity and proportionality hold a firm place in the international law governing the use of force by states, as well as in the law of armed 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.

Terrorism: Commentary on Security Documents is a series that provides primary source documents and expert commentary on various topics relating to the worldwide effort to combat terrorism, as well as efforts by the United States and other nations to protect their national security interests.

This book examines the legislative patchwork surrounding access to the European Commission's cartel case files.

Presenting the first analytical overview of the legal foundations of the EU's Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP), this book provides a detailed examination of the law and practice of the EU's security policy.

Addresses some fundamental issues underlying the regime of belligerent occupation.

Experts anticipate that more than 350,000 veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will return to civilian life with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Targeting is the primary method for securing strategic objectives in an armed conflict.

Using contemporary case studies, this book offers a novel legal perspective on the protection of cultural heritage during war.

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.

Highlights the main trends and concerns in the changing relationship between private security providers and state security forces.

This book addresses 3 questions: is money a way to create a European Union identity?

What is the future of constitutionalism, state and law in the new technological age?

The conduct of warfare is constantly shaped by new forces that create complexities in the battlespace for military operations.

'Saidov has produced a detailed and highly readable text that considers in turn the methods of limiting damages, the determination of loss and the calculation of damages.

On 11 November 1918, the last day of the Great War, the Canadian Corps, led by Sir Arthur Currie, liberated Mons after four years of German occupation.

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

This book is the first detailed and comprehensive research of the history of the Cape Town Convention and its protocols.

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

Over the last 20 years the world's most advanced militaries have invited a small number of military legal professionals into the heart of their targeting operations, spaces which had previously been exclusively for generals and commanders.

This innovative collection offers one of the first analyses of criminologies of the military from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Military justice is changing rapidly due to both domestic and international influences.

The My Lai Massacre was the most publicized incident subjected to military law during the Vietnam War, but military lawyers in all the service branches had their hands full with less-publicized desertions, drug use, rapes, fraggings, black marketeering, and even small claims.

1992-Planning for Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology provides a summary of the relevant legislation, research programs, and proposals for the establishment of a single European market for the chemical, pharmaceutical, and biotechnology industries.

The authoritative guide to the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract The New Engineering Contract (NEC) is one of the leading standard forms of contract for major construction and infrastructure projects.

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

Challenging the conventional narrative that the European Union suffers from a "e;democratic deficit,"e; Athanasios Psygkas argues that EU mandates have enhanced the democratic accountability of national regulatory agencies.

The first monograph analysing all legal regimes applicable to the use of less-lethal weapons.

The only book addressed to both law students and military officers undergoing training in the law of armed conflict.

The first monograph analysing all legal regimes applicable to the use of less-lethal weapons.

This book trenchantly diagnoses the law''s limits in making sense of mass atrocity.

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.

Watch the author describe his take on critical supply chain threats in his most current NBC/WPXI-Pittsburgh interview.

Surveys show that the all-volunteer military is our most respected and trusted institution, but over the last thirty-five years it has grown estranged from civilian society.

Torture has lately become front page news, featured in popular movies and TV shows, and a topic of intense public debate.

Targeting Americans: The Constitutionality of the U.

In a clear-eyed and shrewd examinationof how the US seems to be mired in a losing and intractable battle against global terrorism (Publishers Weekly), Mark Danner describes a nation forever altered by President George W.

Since the "e;surge"e; in Iraq in 2006, counterinsurgency effectively became America's dominant approach for fighting wars.