Documents on the Laws of War - Hardcover

Roberts, Adam

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198763891 ISBN 13: 9780198763895

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1990

Synopsis

A revised and updated edition of a book which has become widely accepted internationally as a standard work on international humanitarian law. The book contains authoritative texts of the main treaties and other key documents covering a wide variety of issues: the rights and duties of both belligerents and neutrals; prohibitions or restrictions on the use of particular weapons; the protection of victims of war, including the wounded and sick, prisoners of war, and civilians; the application of the law to forces operating under UN auspices; the attempts to apply the laws of war in civil wars; the prosecution of war crimes and genocide; the legality of the threat or use of nuclear weapons; and many other matters This third edition, greatly expanded from the second, contains 13 new documents, including agreements on anti-personnel mines and laser weapons; key extracts from the statutes of the international criminal tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, and the International Criminal Court; two documents on UN forces and international humanitarian law; and an extract from the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on nuclear weapons There is a new appendix l

About this title

About the Author

Adam Roberts is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College.

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: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198763891
• ISBN 13: 9780198763895
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 766