Edited by Dieter Fleck, Formerly Director for International Agreements & Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Honorary President, International Society for Military Law and the Law of War
Dieter Fleck, Dr.iur. (Cologne), is the Former Director International Agreements and Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Honorary President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War; Member of the Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL); former Chairman of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of the International Law Association, and Rapporteur of its new Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-proliferation and Contemporary International Law. He is the author of publications on the law of peace and security, international humanitarian law, and the law of visiting forces.
Contributors:
Professor Michael Bothe -Universität Frankfurt
Dr Knut Dörmann - International Committee of the Red Cross
Professor Horst Fischer - Leiden University, Academic Director of the Institut für riedenssicherungsrecht und Humanitäres Völkerrecht, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Dr Hans-Peter Gasser - formerly Senior Legal Advisor of the International Committee of the Red Cross; Editor of the International Review of the Red Cross
Professor Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg - Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder)
Professor Knut Ipsen - , Ruhr-Universität Bochum, former President of the German Red Cross
Ben F. Klappe - Military Judge in the District Court, Arnhem
Dr Jann K. Kleffner - Swedish National Defence College
Major General Nilendra Kumar, AVSM, VSM - Judge Advocate General of the Army, Integrated Headquarters of the Ministry of Defence, New Delhi
Professor Mary Ellen O'Connell - University of Notre Dame
Dr Roger O'Keefe - Cambridge University
Professor Stefan Oeter - Direktor des Instituts für Internationale Angelegenheiten, Universität Hamburg
Professor Silja Vöneky - Institut für Staatswissenschaft und Rechtsphilosophie, Universität Freiburg
Review(s) from previous edition
"[An] important and useful work on international humanitarian law in armed conflicts...All national armed and auxiliary forces throughout the world...should obtain this Handbook and distribute it as widely as possible. - The Lawyers Review
"An important and highly valuable book in a field of international law that has seen far too few works of this scope in recent decades." - George H. Aldrich, American Journal of International Law
"Deserves to be on the shelf of all lawyers interested in the law of armed conflict. It is a useful compilation to be added to the rich literature in the field." - Natalino Ronzitti, Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol XVIII
"...the work under review...has no equivalent at the present day, and is therefore absolutely necessary to everyone interested in IHL." - Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont, Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Volume 3, 2, Spring 2009
"...although giving a clear, precise and definitive answer to the current challenges posed by modern international humanitarian law remains an uneasy task-this handbook may be regarded as a fundamental source of knowledge, as it is tailored to support legal advisors on the ground but also practising lawyers and academics with an interest in international humanitarian law." - Davide Giovannelli, The Military Law and the Law of War Review 47, 2008
"[This book's] comprehensive presentation of a not easily accessible body of law, its most thoroughly researched and well documented chapters, its clear structure and layout, as well as its easily traceable writing style make it a standard manual on international humanitarian law." - European Journal of International Law, 20, 2009
"The new edition of the Handbook of International Humanitarian Law gives an up-to-date and even more comprehensive look at international humanitarian law, that certainly tall those who are dealing with it in theory and practice will highly appreciate." - Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Vol 21
