International Humanitarian Law

The world faces more than 60 million people displaced by armed conflict and disasters as of 2022. Climate change is set to trigger large-scale disp...

Combatants are equal under the laws of armed conflict, regardless of whether the wars they fight are just or unjust, legal or illegal. They are per...

How to address the human rights violations of previous regimes and past periods of conflict is one of the most pressing questions facing government...

By comparatively assessing three conflict-affected jurisdictions (Liberia, Northern Ireland and Timor-Leste), Conflict-Related Violence against Wom...

Despite the conclusion of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg that aggression is the 'supreme international crime', armed conflict rem...

Reimagining the National Security State provides the first comprehensive picture of the toll that US government policies took on civil liberties, h...

The question of 'humanitarian intervention' has been a staple of international law for around 200 years, with a renewed interest in the history of ...

This dispassionate analysis of the legal implications of non-international armed conflicts explores the rules regulating the conduct of internal ho...

Human Rights, Democracy, and Legitimacy in a World of Disorder brings together respected scholars from diverse disciplines to examine a trio of key...

The European Convention on Human Rights is being applied to military operations of every kind from internal operations in Russia and Turkey, to int...

International Law and New Wars examines how international law fails to address the contemporary experience of what are known as 'new wars' - instan...

The application and interpretation of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their two Additional Protocols of 1977 have developed significantly i...

Place is inextricably linked to history by way of culture, language, philosophy, faith and the development of worldviews. The richness and depth of...

Why are certain responses to past human rights violations considered instances of transitional justice while others are disregarded? This study int...

In this book, self-defence against non-state actors is examined by three scholars whose geographical, professional, theoretical, and methodological...

The rapid rise of global Islamic Jihadism in the past few decades and the limited success of the anti-terror campaign in halting its expansion have...

The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human...

Since the end of the Cold War, humanitarian interventions have continued to evolve and respond to a wide range of political crises. These insightfu...

This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through ...

This book is a comprehensive presentation of humanitarian intervention in theory and practice during the course of the nineteenth century. Through ...

Like many other areas of life, humanitarian practice and thinking are being transformed by information and communications technology. Despite this,...

In Access to Courts for Asylum Seekers and Refugees, Emma Dunlop focuses on the scope and content of article 16 of the 1951 Refugee Convention. Und...

Though the Qatar 2022 FIFA Men's World Cup is for many a symbol of long-standing corruption and human rights problems, the event may actually repre...

Arms control and disarmament are key elements in promoting international peace and security. In recent decades the scope of disarmament law has bro...

The focus of this edited volume is the often-overlooked importance of secondary rules of international law. Secondary rules of international law-su...

Arms control and disarmament are key elements in promoting international peace and security. In recent decades the scope of disarmament law has bro...

The Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees adopted on 28 July 1951 in Geneva continues to provide the most comprehensive codification of the...

The starting point of this book is the generally shared observation that in violence-torn areas of limited statehood, the civilian population is of...

The 1949 Geneva Conventions are the most important rules for armed conflict ever formulated. To this day they continue to shape contemporary debate...

As wealthy countries build walls to keep migrants out, countries in the Global South are celebrated for their hospitality towards refugees. Hosting...

As wealthy countries build walls to keep migrants out, countries in the Global South are celebrated for their hospitality towards refugees. Hosting...

Law and Morality at War develops a normative framework within which the law of armed conflict should be evaluated, interpreted, and reformed. The b...

The prohibition of the use of force in international law is one of the major achievements of international law in the past century. The attempt to ...

International humanitarian law is the law that governs the conduct of participants during armed conflict. This branch of law aims to regulate the m...

The 2014-2015 Edition Released in annual editions of 6 volumes, the Annual Review of United Nations Affairs is the only thorough annual survey of ...

From videos of rights violations, to satellite images of environmental degradation, to eyewitness accounts disseminated on social media, human righ...