Law of Armed Conflict (The), 2nd Revised edition

Law of Armed Conflict (The), 2nd Revised edition

International Humanitarian Law in War

Solis, Gary D.

Cambridge University Press

04/2016

864

Dura

Inglês

9781107135604

15 a 20 dias

This book introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. Gary D. Solis leads readers from the basics of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to the finer points of battlefield law. Though US-focused, it includes hundreds of cases from jurisdictions worldwide.
- Foreword
- Preface
- Part I. Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War: 1. Rules of war, laws of war
- 2. Codes, conventions, declarations, and regulations
- 3. Two World Wars and their law of armed conflict results
- 4. Protocols and politics
- Part II. Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law: A Framework: 5. Conflict status
- 6. Individual battlefield status
- 7. Law of armed conflict's four core principles
- 8. What is a 'war crime'?
- Part III. Law of Armed Conflict and International Humanitarian Law: Battlefield Issues: 9. Obedience to orders, the first defense
- 10. Command responsibility and respondeat superior
- 11. Ruses and perfidy
- 12. Rules of engagement
- 13. Targeting objects
- 14. Autonomous weapons, drones, and targeted killing
- 15. Human targeting and cross-border counter-attacks
- 16. Torture
- 17. Cyberwarfare
- 18. Attacks on cultural property
- 19. The 1980 certain conventional weapons convention
- 20. Gas, biological, and chemical weapons treaties
- Part IV. Dealing with Violations of Customs and Usages of Warfare: 21. Military commissions
- 22. Security detention.
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