Contemporary Challenges to the Laws of War (eBook, PDF)

Essays in Honour of Professor Peter Rowe
Redaktion: Harvey, Caroline

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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 international criminal law. International mechanisms of accountability have increased and international criminal law has greater relevance in the calculations of political and military leaders, yet perpetrators often remain at large and the laws of war raise numerous normative, structural and systemic issues and problems. This edited collection brings together leading academic, military and professional experts to examine the key issues for the continuing role and relevance of the laws of war in the twenty-first century. Marking Professor Peter Rowe's contribution to the subject, this book re-examines the purposes of the laws of war and asks whether existing laws found in treaties and customs work to achieve these purposes and, if not, whether they can be fixed by specific reforms or wholesale revision.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316147269
• Artikelnr.: 52940219

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Christopher Greenwood; Preface Caroline Harvey, James Summers and
Nigel D. White; 1. Introduction James Summers; 2. Army legal services and
academia A. P. V. Rogers and Gordon Risius; Part I. Structural and Systemic
Aspects of the Laws of War: 3. Development of new rules or application of
more than one legal regime? Dieter Fleck; 4. It's a bird! It's a plane!
It's a non-international armed conflict: cross border hostilities between
states and non-state actors Lindsay Moir; 5. Security Council mandates and
the use of lethal force by peacekeepers: what place for the laws of war?
Nigel D. White; 6. The relationship of international humanitarian law and
war crimes: international criminal tribunals and their statutes Robert
Cryer; Part II. Effective Protection?: 7. The future of Article 5 tribunals
in the light of experiences in the Iraq war, 2003 Nicholas Mercer; 8.
Direct participation and the principle of distinction: squaring the circle
Charles Garraway; 9. Droning on: some international humanitarian law
aspects of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in contemporary armed
conflicts David Turns; 10. Does the law of targeting meet
twenty-first-century needs? William Boothby; 11. Protecting civilians from
the effects of explosive weapons in International Humanitarian Law Maya
Brehm; 12. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the initiative
to strengthen legal protection for victims of armed conflicts Michael
Meyer; Part III. Responsibility and Accountability: 13. Corporate criminal
responsibility for war crimes and other violations of international
humanitarian law: the impact of the business and human rights movement Alex
Batesmith; 14. The trial of prisoners of war by military courts in modern
armed conflicts Peter Rowe; 15. The right to conduct one's own defence
before the ICTY and a fair and expeditious trial: an impossible balancing
act Caroline Harvey.