International Humanitarian Law

This book provides a pathbreaking attempt both to define the important legal questions related to the growing use of big data in extraterritorial m...

Military uses in space are rapidly changing and expanding, challenging both states and non-governmental agencies in identifying and applying the go...

This book offers a new, more critical perspective on the regulation and protection of individuals under international humanitarian law. Providing a...

Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate normalisation of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international polit...

This book arises from a cybersecurity conference at the University of Adelaide attended by a group of government and academic experts. It presents ...

What guidance can Buddhism provide to those involved in armed conflict and to belligerents who must perhaps kill or be killed or defend their famil...

The most commonly cited justification for international criminal law is that it addresses crimes of such gravity that they shock the conscience of ...

Dieser open access Band beschäftigt sich mit völkerrechtlichen Aspekten des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine. Drei Fragen stehen dabei im ...

This book delves into the complexities of genocide as a legal concept, offering a fresh perspective by exploring the rights of groups to exist unde...

Relief Chief is Mark Lowcock's behind-the-scenes account of his experience as the world's most senior humanitarian officialthe UN Relief Chief. In ...

First Published in 1998, this book presents an analysis of international humanitarian law, the law governing and seeking to mitigate the conduct of...

The accountability of armed non-state actors is a neglected field of international law, overtaken by the regimes of state responsibility and indivi...

The Handbook of International Humanitarian Law sets out a Black Letter text of international humanitarian law accompanied by case analysis and exte...

In Wars of Law, Tanisha M. Fazal assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war for the commencement, conduct, and co...

The history of war is also a history of its justification. The contributions to this book argue that the justification of war rarely happens as emp...

The adage 'ignorance of the law is no excuse' is significantly inaccurate. Ignorance and mistake of law do, under certain circumstances, exclude re...

This is the first book to focus on international efforts to address Syrian chemical weapons issues in an international law context. It provides an ...

This book addresses a potential radiation incident caused by the war in Ukraine, from an interdisciplinary approach of medical, nuclear safety and ...

This monograph provides a practical and operational perspective to the question of how to lawfully employ autonomous weapon systems (AWS) from the ...

This book offers a distinctive approach to the right not to be subjected to enforced disappearance. Over the last decade, the entry into force of t...

A history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries. Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. ...

Dominating Ukraine has been the cornerstone of Russian policy for centuries - now, we are witnessing a genocide. The Russian invas...

The Small Arms Survey 2014 considers the multiple roles of women in the context of armed violence, security, and the small arms agenda. The volume'...

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the entities responsible for the production of data on armed conflicts (DAC), the ...

This book covers the issue of global migration flows, with a particular focus on irregular migration. It presents and evaluates the principal drive...

[I]f humanitarian intervention is, indeed, an unacceptable assault on sovereignty, how should we respond to a Rwanda, to a Srebrenicato gross and s...

Understanding the global security environment and delivering the necessary governance responses is a central challenge of the 21st century. On a gl...

Proving International Crimes elucidates how international criminal tribunals have tackled the immense and complex task of proving international cri...

The book tells (and analyzes) the story of the United Nations multidimensional stabilization operation in Mali (MINUSMA), which closed at the end o...

Interventions on behalf of Armenia and Armenians have come to be identified by scholars and practitioners alike as defining moments in the history ...

The defining moments of 2001, the terrorist attacks of September 11 against the UnitedStatesofAmerica,markedaturningpointininternational lawandrela...

This book reviews the nature of the alleged abuse committed by the UK military forces, exploring the legal paradigm in which the abuse allegedly oc...

This illuminating study describes the genesis of the contemporary doctrine of humanitarian intervention. It is the first comprehensive analysis of ...

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on internationa...

How laws are created, shaped, and applied is a significant but often overlooked component of studies on armed conflict. Almost every contentious le...

The question of what constitutes an armed conflict has featured prominently in international law debates. However, international lawyers have paid ...

The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law provides a t...

The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law provides a t...

Since the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, jihad has become symbolic of the confrontation between Muslims and the West. According to...

The Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) is certainly a source of innovation in human rights law and policy. However, uncertainty reigns o...

In the 1990s, the promise of justice for atrocity crimes was associated with the revival of international criminal tribunals (ICTs). More recently,...

The laws of war are facing new challenges from emerging technologies and changing methods of warfare, as well as the growth of human rights and int...