Documents on the Laws of War - Softcover

Roberts, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0198256574 ISBN 13: 9780198256571

Publisher: Clarendon Press, 1989

Synopsis

The first edition of this book became a standard work in the field, and it has been extensively revised and updated for the second edition. It is prepared with assistance from the official Depositaries of the various international agreements, and is an essential reference book for statesmen and diplomats, lawyers, journalists, and students of international relations and law. From reviews of the first edition: `Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men.' New Society This book is intended for all international lawyers, students and teachers of international relations, peace studies, and politics. Military advisers and personnel, diplomats, and Red Cross officials.

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Review

Praise for the first edition "It is not just in places where public international law is taught that this volume of documents is going to be useful. With the rising of the current tide of interest and concern about the shape armaments and militarism are giving to our collective future and about the likely chatacter of its warfare, rises also an Pnxious public interest in the potential value of legal prohibitions and restraints in war....Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men."--New Society "Not a single textual inaccuracy....Editorial judgements are consistently sound....The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival "Indispensable to practitioners and students alike....We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors."--International Affairs Praise for the first edition: "It is not just in places where public international law is taught that this volume of documents is going to be useful. With the rising of the current tide of interest and concern about the shape armaments and militarism are giving to our collective future and about the likely chatacter of its warfare, rises also an Pnxious public interest in the potential value of legal prohibitions and restraints in war....Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men."--New Society "Not a single textual inaccuracy....Editorial judgements are consistently sound....The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival "Indispensable to practitioners and students alike....We are much indebted to the patient an Praise for the first edition: "It is not just in places where public international law is taught that this volume of documents is going to be useful. With the rising of the current tide of interest and concern about the shape armaments and militarism are giving to our collective future and about the likely chatacter of its warfare, rises also an Pnxious public interest in the potential value of legal prohibitions and restraints in war....Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men."--New Society "Not a single textual inaccuracy....Editorial judgements are consistently sound....The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival "Indispensable to practitioners and students alike....We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors."--International Affairs Praise for the first edition: "It is not just in places where public international law is taught that this volume of documents is going to be useful. With the rising of the current tide of interest and concern about the shape armaments and militarism are giving to our collective future and about the likely chatacter of its warfare, rises also an Pnxious public interest in the potential value of legal prohibitions and restraints in war....Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men."--New Society "Not a single textual inaccuracy....Editorial judgements are consistently sound....The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival "Indispensable to practitioners and students alike....We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors."--International Affairs Praise for the first edition: "It is not just in places where public international law is taught that this volume of documents is going to be useful. With the rising of the current tide of interest and concern about the shape armaments and militarism are giving to our collective future and about the likely chatacter of its warfare, rises also an Pnxious public interest in the potential value of legal prohibitions and restraints in war....Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men."--New Society "Not a single textual inaccuracy....Editorial judgements are consistently sound....The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival "Indispensable to practitioners and students alike....We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors."--International Affairs

About the Author

Professor Sir Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. Professor Robert's is the co-editor of Civil Resistance and Power Politics (O.U.P. 2008) and Hugo Grotius and International Relations (O.U.P. 1992). Richard Guelff is a member of the District of Columbia Bar with an international law practice in London and counsel to a law firm in Geneva.

Edition details

• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198256574
• ISBN 13: 9780198256571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 522