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Author:   Matt Killingsworth (University of Tasmania) ,  Tim McCormack (University of Tasmania)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Weight:   0.539kg
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9781108488495

ISBN 10:   1108488498
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   01 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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1. Civility, barbarism and the evolution of international humanitarian law: who do the laws of war protect?: introduction Matt Killingsworth and Tim McCormack; 2. Sieges and the laws of war in Europe's long eighteenth century Gavin Daly; 3. All's fair in love and war or the limits of the limitations: juridification of warfare and its revocation by military necessity Miloš Vec; 4. Cultivating humanitarianism: moral sentiment and international humanitarian law in the civilizing process Richard Devetak; 5. Limits to the scope of humanity as a constraint on the conduct of war Tim McCormack, Siobhain Galea and Daniel Westbury; 6. The state, civility and international humanitarian law Matt Killingsworth; 7. Operationalising distinction in South Sudan: humanitarian decision-making about military asset use Rebecca Sutton; 8. Private military and security companies and international humanitarian law: the montreux document Rebecca Shaw; 9. Protecting warfighters from superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering Rain Liivoja; 10. Blurring the lines: how are female child soldiers protected by the laws of war? Rosemary Grey; 11. A step back to take a step forward: the future of justice in conflict Mark Kersten.

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Matt Killingsworth is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Tasmania. He has held visiting fellowships at the University of Oxford's Institute for Ethics and Armed Conflict and the European University Institute, he is the co-editor of Violence and the State (2016), and the former Chair of the Tasmanian Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Committee. Tim McCormack is Professor of International Law at the University of Tasmania and the Special Adviser on War Crimes to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. He was the Foundation Australian Red Cross Professor of International Humanitarian Law and Founding Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for Military Law at Melbourne Law School, Charles H Stockton Distinguished Scholar-in-Residence at the US Naval War College and James Barr Ames Visiting Professor at Harvard Law School. He co-edited (with Suzannah Linton and Sandesh Sivakumaran) Asia-Pacific Perspectives on International Humanitarian Law (CUP 2019).

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