Overview

The application of the right to life during armed conflict is an issue that polarizes opinion and generates considerable debate. Many believe that human rights law has no place in armed conflict, yet the European Court of Human Rights, and domestic courts, have ruled that it can apply. The exact contours of how the right to life applies during armed conflict remain largely unresolved. In this text, Ian Park seeks to clearly articulate the right to life obligations of states during both international and non-international armed conflict in respect of those individuals affected by the actions of states' armed forces and members of the armed forces themselves. In determining the right to life obligations of states, Park identifies the sources of law from which right to life obligations arise, how case law has developed and modified these obligations, and analyses how the law creates obligations in practice. Implicit in this analysis is a consideration of recent armed conflicts, and the actions of states, that lead to a series of concrete proposals designed to best ensure compliance with a state's right to life obligations.

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for those directly involved in this developing field of law, the text is indispensable. It should find its way into large academic law libraries, government libraries with National Defense users, and any law firm library with a significant international human rights practice group. * Ken Fox, Canadian Law Library Review *

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Ian Park is a Barrister practising in international law. He has been a Hudson Fellow at Oxford University, a Visiting Fellow at Harvard Law School, a First Sea Lord's Fellow, and has a DPhil in law from Balliol College, Oxford.

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