The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War 3rd Edition

International Law

The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War 3rd Edition

By Gary D. Solis
Cambridge University Press October 2021

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ISBN-13
9781108926935
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication
October 2021
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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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.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface and acknowledgments
Table of cases
Table of 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. A.I., 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 and internment
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