The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in WarThe Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law applies to particular armed conflicts? Does that law apply to terrorists as well? What is the status of participants in an armed conflict? What constitutes a war crime? What is a lawful target and how are targeting decisions made? What are rules of engagement? What weapons are lawful and unlawful, and why? This text takes the reader through these essential questions of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to an awareness of finer points of battlefield law. The U.S.-weighted text incorporates lessons from many nations and includes hundreds of cases from jurisdictions worldwide. |
Contents
Rules of War Laws of | 3 |
The 1980 Certain Conventional Weapons Convention | 16 |
Codes Conventions Declarations and Regulations | 38 |
Protocols and Politics | 119 |
Cases and Materials | 139 |
Conflict Status | 149 |
Rumsfeld | 173 |
Security Council Consideration of a Complaint by Iraq | 183 |
10 | 381 |
Cases and Materials | 405 |
Blaškic | 413 |
Ruses and Perfidy | 420 |
224 | 473 |
Rules of Engagement | 490 |
Cases and Materials | 512 |
Targeting | 519 |
or Modern Preview? 6 6 1 Out of Uniform Out of Status? 6 7 Detainee Enemy Combatant and Unlawful Enemy Combatant | 238 |
battlefield issues | 239 |
7 | 250 |
Cases and Materials | 265 |
220 | 294 |
Galic | 298 |
Obedience to Orders the First Defense | 341 |
Cases and Materials | 364 |
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