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9780521870887

The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521870887

  • ISBN10:

    0521870887

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2010-02-15
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Summary

The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law applies to particular armed conflicts? Does that law apply to terrorists as well? What is the status of participants in an armed conflict? What constitutes a war crime? What is a lawful target and how are targeting decisions made? What are rules of engagement? What weapons are lawful and unlawful, and why? This text takes the reader through these essential questions of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to an awareness of finer points of battlefield law. The U.S.-weighted text incorporates lessons from many nations and includes hundreds of cases from jurisdictions worldwide.

Table of Contents

Foundation
Rules of war, laws of war
Codes, conventions, declarations and regulations
Two world wars and their law of armed conflict results
Protocols and politics
A Framework
Conflict status
Individual battlefield status
LOAC's four core principles
What is a 'war crime'?
Battlefield Issues
Obedience to orders, the first defense
Command responsibility and respondent superior
Ruses and perfidy
Torture
Rules of engagement
Targeting
Attacks on cultural property
The 1980 certain conventional weapons convention
Gas, biological and chemical weapons treaties
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