War Economies and International Law

War Economies and International Law

Author: Mark B. Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1108483704

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


The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict

The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Armed Conflict

Author: Andrew Clapham

Publisher:

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 1009

ISBN-13: 0199559694

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Written by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned experts, this Oxford Handbook gives an analytical overview of international law as it applies in armed conflicts. The Handbook draws on international humanitarian law, human rights law, and the law of neutrality to provide a comprehensive picture of the status of law in war.


Legitimate Targets?

Legitimate Targets?

Author: Janina Dill

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 387

ISBN-13: 1107056756

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Can international law regulate warfare? Experiences of US bombing suggests it does not solve the twenty-first-century belligerent's legitimacy dilemma.


An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts

An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts

Author: Robert Kolb

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2008-09-17

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 1847314600

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This book provides a modern and basic introduction to a branch of international law constantly gaining in importance in international life, namely international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict). It is constructed in a way suitable for self-study. The subject-matters are discussed in self-contained chapters, allowing each to be studied independently of the others. Among the subject-matters discussed are, inter alia: the Relationship between jus ad bellum / jus in bello; Historical Evolution of IHL; Basic Principles and Sources of IHL; Martens Clause; International and Non-International Armed Conflicts; Material, Spatial, Personal and Temporal Scope of Application of IHL; Special Agreements under IHL; Role of the ICRC; Targeting; Objects Specifically Protected against Attack; Prohibited Weapons; Perfidy; Reprisals; Assistance of the Wounded and Sick; Definition of Combatants; Protection of Prisoners of War; Protection of Civilians; Occupied Territories; Protective Emblems; Sea Warfare; Neutrality; Implementation of IHL.


International Law and New Wars

International Law and New Wars

Author: Christine Chinkin

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-04-27

Total Pages: 611

ISBN-13: 1107171210

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Examines the difficulties in applying international law to recent armed conflicts known as 'new wars'.


Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations

Tallinn Manual 2.0 on the International Law Applicable to Cyber Operations

Author: Michael N. Schmitt

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-02-02

Total Pages: 641

ISBN-13: 1316828646

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Tallinn Manual 2.0 expands on the highly influential first edition by extending its coverage of the international law governing cyber operations to peacetime legal regimes. The product of a three-year follow-on project by a new group of twenty renowned international law experts, it addresses such topics as sovereignty, state responsibility, human rights, and the law of air, space, and the sea. Tallinn Manual 2.0 identifies 154 'black letter' rules governing cyber operations and provides extensive commentary on each rule. Although Tallinn Manual 2.0 represents the views of the experts in their personal capacity, the project benefitted from the unofficial input of many states and over fifty peer reviewers.


International Law and the Classification of Conflicts

International Law and the Classification of Conflicts

Author: Elizabeth Wilmshurst

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2012-08-02

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 0191632236

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This book comprises contributions by leading experts in the field of international humanitarian law on the subject of the categorisation or classification of armed conflict. It is divided into two sections: the first aims to provide the reader with a sound understanding of the legal questions surrounding the classification of hostilities and its consequences; the second includes ten case studies that examine practice in respect of classification. Understanding how classification operates in theory and practice is a precursor to identifying the relevant rules that govern parties to hostilities. With changing forms of armed conflict which may involve multi-national operations, transnational armed groups and organized criminal gangs, the need for clarity of the law is all-important. The case studies selected for analysis are Northern Ireland, DRC, Colombia, Afghanistan (from 2001), Gaza, South Ossetia, Iraq (from 2003), Lebanon (2006), the so-called war against Al-Qaeda, and future trends. The studies explore the legal consequences of classification particularly in respect of the use of force, detention in armed conflict, and the relationship between human rights law and international humanitarian law. The practice identified in the case studies allows the final chapter to draw conclusions as to the state of the law on classification.


War Law

War Law

Author: Michael Byers

Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Published: 2007-12-01

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 155584846X

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“Professor Byers’s book goes to the heart of some of the most bitterly contested recent controversies about the International Rule of Law.” —Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University International law governing the use of military force has been the subject of intense public debate. Under what conditions is it appropriate, or necessary, for a country to use force when diplomacy has failed? Michael Byers, a widely known world expert on international law, weighs these issues in War Law. Byers examines the history of armed conflict and international law through a series of case studies of past conflicts, ranging from the 1837 Caroline Incident to the abuse of detainees by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Byers explores the legal controversies that surrounded the 1999 and 2001 interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the 2003 war in Iraq; the development of international humanitarian law from the 1859 Battle of Solferino to the present; and the role of war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. He also considers the unique influence of the United States in the evolution of this extremely controversial area of international law. War Law is neither a textbook nor a treatise, but a fascinating account of a highly controversial topic that is necessary reading for fans of military history and general readers alike. “Should be read, and pondered, by those who are seriously concerned with the legacy we will leave to future generations.” —Noam Chomsky


A Scrap of Paper

A Scrap of Paper

Author: Isabel V. Hull

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2014-04-16

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 0801470641

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In A Scrap of Paper, Isabel V. Hull compares wartime decision making in Germany, Great Britain, and France, weighing the impact of legal considerations in each. She demonstrates how differences in state structures and legal traditions shaped the way the three belligerents fought the war. Hull focuses on seven cases: Belgian neutrality, the land war in the west, the occupation of enemy territory, the blockade, unrestricted submarine warfare, the introduction of new weaponry, and reprisals. A Scrap of Paper reconstructs the debates over military decision-making and clarifies the role law played—where it constrained action, where it was manipulated, where it was ignored, and how it developed in combat—in each case. A Scrap of Paper is a passionate defense of the role that the law must play to govern interstate relations in both peace and war.