- 780 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
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About this book
Newly revised and updated, The Law of Armed Conflict, introduces students to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict (LOAC) or its civilian counterpart, international humanitarian law (IHL), applies in a particular armed conflict? Are terrorists bound by that law? What constitutes a war crime? What (or who) is a lawful target and how are targeting decisions made? What are 'rules of engagement' and who formulates them? How can an autonomous weapon system be bound by the law of armed conflict? Why were the Guantánamo military commissions a failure? Featuring new chapters, this book takes students through these topics and more, employing real-world examples and legal opinions from the US and abroad. From Nuremberg to 9/11, from courts-martial to the US Supreme Court, from the nineteenth century to the twenty-first, the law of war is explained, interpreted, and applied with clarity and depth.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-title page
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Table of Cases
- Table of International Treaties
- 1 Rules of War, Laws of War
- 2 Codes, Conventions, Declarations, and Regulations
- 3 Two World Wars and Their Law of Armed Conflict Results
- 4 Protocols and Politics
- 5 Conflict Status
- 6 Individual Battlefield Status
- 7 Law of Armed Conflict’s Core Principles
- 8 What Is a “War Crime”?
- 9 Obedience to Orders, the First Defense
- 10 Command Responsibility
- 11 Ruses and Perfidy
- 12 Rules of Engagement
- 13 Targeting Objects
- 14 Targeting Combatants and Others
- 15 AI, Autonomous Weapons, Drones, and Targeted Killing
- 16 Torture
- 17 Cyber in the Law of Armed Conflict
- 18 Attacks on Cultural Property
- 19 The 1980 Certain Conventional Weapons Convention
- 20 Gas, Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Weapons
- 21 Military Commissions
- 22 Security Detention
- References
- Index
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