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Author: Kenneth Watkin (Brigadier General (Retired), Brigadier General (Retired), Canadian Forces)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.60cm
, Height: 5.10cm
, Length: 15.70cm
Weight: 1.139kg
ISBN: 9780190457976
ISBN 10: 019045797
Pages: 728
Publication Date: 23 June 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
Ken Watkin has combined the pragmatism and realism that marked out his successful career as a military lawyer, a compendious knowledge and understanding of contemporary security threats and operations and impressive scholarship to produce a comprehensive, insightful and compelling assessment of the legal challenges that currently confront those charged in this century with maintaining national and international security. This is a highly authoritative monumental treatise that combines wisdom, law, operational experience and common sense, and which is deserving of a wide readership. By taking the discussion beyond the confines of the law and embracing wider operational, policy and doctrinal issues, the book should appeal to a broad audience... indeed to anyone with an interest in getting to the bottom of what is driving current security concerns and operations. William Boothby, International and Comparative Law Quarterly [Q]uite possibly, the most important single-author IHL monograph written in many years. Watkins book is firmly rooted in a sophisticated and almost exhaustive analysis of the relevant facts and law. The authors depth of experience as a practitioner of holistic operational law is evident on every page. This book is outstanding and one hopes it will be widely read and thought about. - William Fenrick, Lawfare
[Q]uite possibly, the most important single-author IHL monograph written in many years. Watkin's book is firmly rooted in a sophisticated and almost exhaustive analysis of the relevant facts and law. The author's depth of experience as a practitioner of holistic operational law is evident on every page. This book is outstanding and one hopes it will be widely read and thought about. -William Fenrick, Lawfare Blog Ken Watkin has combined the pragmatism and realism that marked out his successful career as a military lawyer, a compendious knowledge and understanding of contemporary security threats and operations and impressive scholarship to produce a comprehensive, insightful and compelling assessment of the legal challenges that currently confront those charged in this century with maintaining national and international security. This is a highly authoritative monumental treatise that combines wisdom, law, operational experience and common sense, and which is deserving of a wide readership. By taking the discussion beyond the confines of the law and embracing wider operational, policy and doctrinal issues, the book should appeal to a broad audience. . . indeed to anyone with an interest in getting to the bottom of what is driving current security concerns and operations. - William Boothby, International and Comparative Law Quarterly
[Q]uite possibly, the most important single-author IHL monograph written in many years. Watkins book is firmly rooted in a sophisticated and almost exhaustive analysis of the relevant facts and law. The authors depth of experience as a practitioner of holistic operational law is evident on every page. This book is outstanding and one hopes it will be widely read and thought about. - William Fenrick, Lawfare
Author Information
Brigadier General (Retired) Kenneth Watkin was a career military legal adviser to the Canadian Forces, who has served in a number of operational, military justice, and general legal advisory positions, most recently as Judge Advocate General for the Canadian Forces. He is widely respected as a scholar of IHL and national security law, with dozens of articles in the field. He won the 2008 Lieber Society Military Prize for his AJIL article, Assessing Proportionality: Moral Complexity and Legal Rules, and served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College from 2011-2012.
