International Conflict and Security Law: Essays in Memory of Hilaire McCoubrey

by Edited by Richard Burchill , Nigel D. White , Justin Morris

• ISBN13: 9780521845311
• ISBN10: 0521845319
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-07-25
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Hilaire McCoubrey wrote extensively in the area of armed conflict law, and on the issues of collective security law and the law relating to arms control. Although he died at the early age of 46 in 2000 he had contributed significantly to the separate study of these areas, but also to the idea of studying the issues as a whole subject. The collection covers difficult and controversial issues in the area of conflict and security law. The contributors, drawn both from academe and practice, provide expert analysis of many aspects of the law governing armed conflict and collective security. As well as providing a fitting tribute to the main aspects of Hilaire's contribution to knowledge, the volume provides a coherent reconsideration and development of key aspects of conflict and security law at a time when that law is being applied, breached, debated or reformed on almost a daily basis.

Table of Contents

Biography of Hilaire McCoubrey	ix
Notes on contributors	xi
Foreword: There are men too gentle to live among wolves	xvi
Gary Edles
List of abbreviations	xix
Hilaire McCoubrey and international conflict and security law	1	(20)
Nigel D. White
The development of operational law within Army Legal Services	21	(11)
Gordon Risius
Reflections on the relationship between the duty to educate in humanitarian law and the absence of a defence of mistake of law in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court	32	(17)
Neil Boister
Superior orders and the International Criminal Court	49	(19)
Robert Cryer
Command responsibility: victors' justice or just desserts?	68	(16)
Colonel C. H. B. Garraway
The proposed new neutral protective emblem: a long-term solution to a long-standing problem	84	(24)
Michael Meyer
Towards the unification of international humanitarian law?	108	(21)
Lindsay Moir
Of vanishing points and paradoxes: terrorism and international humanitarian law	129	(31)
Richard Barnes
What is a legitimate military target?	160	(25)
A. P. V. Rogers
The application of the European Convention on Human Rights during an international armed conflict	185	(24)
Peter Rowe
Regional organizations and the promotion and protection of democracy as a contribution to international peace and security	209	(26)
Richard Burchill
Self-defence, Security Council authority and Iraq	235	(30)
Nigel D. White
International law and the suppression of maritime violence	265	(21)
Scott Davidson
Law, power and force in an unbalanced world	286	(28)
Justin Morris
Bibliography of Hilaire McCoubrey's work	314	(3)
Index	317