Overview
In three distinct volumes the editors bring together a distinguished group of contributors whose essays chart the history, practice, and future of international humanitarian law. At a time when the war crimes of recent decades are being examined in the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a new International Criminal Court is being created as a permanent venue to try such crimes, the role of international humanitarian law is seminal to the functioning of such attempts to establish a just world order. The events of September 2001 and the world-wide threat of terrorist attacks, bring into sharper focus questions about the ramifications of unconventional warfare and how prisoners taken in armed conflict short of declared war should be treated. Here again international humanitarian law can provide the guideposts needed to find a just course through difficult times. The intent of these volumes is to help to inform where humanitarian law had its origins, how it has been shaped by world events, and why it can be employed to serve the future.
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Author: John Carey , William Dunlap , Pritchard
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Transnational Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.826kg
ISBN: 9781571052667
ISBN 10: 1571052666
Pages: 350
Publication Date: 01 September 2006
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Table of Contents
Contributors; Introduction to Volume III—Prospects; Foreword; Chapter 1: The Relevance of Humanitarian Law to Terrorism and Terrorists, L.C. Green; Chapter 2: A Plea of Humanity to Law: The Need for an Effective International Criminal Court, Benjamin B. Ferencz; Chapter 3: The Creation of the International Criminal Court and State Sovereignty: The “Problem of an International Criminal Law” Re-Examined, Frédéric Mégret; Chapter 4: Two Cheers for the International Criminal Court, Wade Mansell; Chapter 5: Crimes Within the Limited Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, Jordan J. Paust; Chapter 6: Designing Justice for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, Craig Etcheson; Chapter 7: NATO’s Attack on Yugoslavia: The Deputation of an Ad Hoc International Constabulary, Paul D. Rutkus; Chapter 8: Adapting Traditional Humanitarian Law to Sanctions, Paul Conlon; Chapter 9: The Development of a Victim-Centered Approach to International Criminal Justice for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, Avril McDonald; Chapter 10: The Parameters of Justice: The Evolution of British Civil and Military Perspectives on War Crimes Trials and Their Legal Context (1942–1956), R. John Pritchard; Consolidated Index to Volumes I, II, and III.
Reviews
I hope the third volume of the set (International Humanitarian Law: Prospects)... will be as intellectually engaging as the first two volumes. I highly recommend that all libraries with a focus on international humanitarian law, and more broadly on international law, purchase the set.
I hope the third volume of the set (International Humanitarian Law: Prospects)... will be as intellectually engaging as the first two volumes. I highly recommend that all libraries with a focus on international humanitarian law, and more broadly on international law, purchase the set. Louise Tsang, Georgetown University Law Center, International Journal of Legal Information
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Louise Tsang, Georgetown University Law Center, International Journal of Legal Information
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