International humanitarian law books

Measures taken by states in the name of countering terrorism constantly give rise to new international legal issues....  Read More >>

In The War on Terror and the Laws of War seven legal scholars, each with experience as military officers, focus...  Read More >>

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Commemorating Morton Deutsch’s 95th birthday, this book presents ten major texts by this highly respected social...  Read More >>

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The work also examines certain examples of the various modes in which armed State and/or non-State groups or forces...  Read More >>

This book analyses the current state of child soldiering internationally. The proscriptive content of contemporary...  Read More >>

This innovative Research Handbook brings together leading international law scholars from around the world to discuss...  Read More >>

This book provides a clear and concise explanation of the central principles of international humanitarian law (or...  Read More >>

This Oxford Handbook provides an authoritative and comprehensive analysis of one of the most controversial areas...  Read More >>

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In the modern globalized world, so-called private military and security companies (PMSCs) are employed by a variety...  Read More >>

Larissa van den Herik and Nico Schrijver explore the challenges posed to international law by terrorism in this...  Read More >>

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Key features include:• Focus on key questions, exploring the whole system of law and its practical working• Covers...  Read More >>

Key features include:• Focus on key questions, exploring the whole system of law and its practical working• Covers...  Read More >>

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Since the historic Nuremberg Trial of 1945 an international customary law principle has developed that commission...  Read More >>

War and security have traditionally been held up as two areas where it is largely assumed international law has...  Read More >>

The Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on...  Read More >>

Through US military history, Lavender directly confronts the dominant US viewpoint of redemptive violence, the concept...  Read More >>

Drone Wars presents a series of essays that is a diverse and comprehensive interdisciplinary perspective on drones....  Read More >>

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Divided Sovereignty explores new institutional solutions to the old question of how to constrain states when they...  Read More >>

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