Overview
A revised and updated edition of a book which has become widely accepted internationally as a standard work on international humanitarian law. The book contains authoritative texts of the main treaties and other key documents covering a wide variety of issues: the rights and duties of both belligerents and neutrals; prohibitions or restrictions on the use of particular weapons; the protection of victims of war, including the wounded and sick, prisoners of war, and civilians; the application of the law to forces operating under UN auspices; the attempts to apply the laws of war in civil wars; the prosecution of war crimes and genocide; the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; and many other matters This third edition, greatly expanded from the second, contains 13 new documents, including agreements on anti-personnel mines and laser weapons; key extracts from the statutes of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court; two documents on UN forces and international humanitarian law; and an extract from the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on nuclear weapons There is a new appendix l
Full Product Details
Author: Adam Roberts ,
Richard Guelff
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Width: 17.00cm
, Height: 4.60cm
, Length: 24.00cm
Weight: 1.278kg
ISBN: 9780198763895
ISBN 10: 0198763891
Pages: 766
Publication Date: 01 January 1990
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
,
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.
Reviews
""" ... an invaluable resource for all practitioners and scholars of international law. The publication of the third edition could not have been more timely.""-- Professor Christopher Greenwood, London School of Economics ""Indispensable to practitioners and students alike ... We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors.""-- International Affairs ""Editorial judgements are consistently sound ... The selection of documents is impeccable.""--Survival"
... an invaluable resource for all practitioners and scholars of international law. The publication of the third edition could not have been more timely. -- Professor Christopher Greenwood, London School of Economics Indispensable to practitioners and students alike ... We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors. -- International Affairs Editorial judgements are consistently sound ... The selection of documents is impeccable. --Survival
... an invaluable resource for all practitioners and scholars of international law. The publication of the third edition could not have been more timely. -- Professor Christopher Greenwood, London School of Economics<br> Indispensable to practitioners and students alike ... We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors. -- International Affairs<br> Editorial judgements are consistently sound ... The selection of documents is impeccable. --Survival<br>
Author Information
Adam Roberts is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College. Richard Guelff is a member of the District of Columbia Bar with an international law practice in London and counsel to a law firm in Geneva.
