Rules and Institutions of International Humanitarian Law Put to the Test of Recent Armed Conflicts: Les R�gles Et Les Institutions Du Droit ... and Research in International Law and Int) - Hardcover

9789004172838: Rules and Institutions of International Humanitarian Law Put to the Test of Recent Armed Conflicts: Les R�gles Et Les Institutions Du Droit ... and Research in International Law and Int)

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ISBN 10: 9004172831 ISBN 13: 9789004172838

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff, 2010

This volume is the product of the Centre for Studies and Research of the Hague Academy of International Law for 2007. A total of 23 young academics and practitioners from 16 countries participated in the Centre's summer session, and all contributed to a very valuable scholarly exploration and exchange of views on a vital topic. The volume consists of the introductory reports of the two Directors of Studies (Professor D. Momtaz of the University of Teheran and Professor M.J. Matheson of George Washington Law School), together with contributions by 13 of the Centre participants that were deemed to be particularly worthy of publication, an extensive bibliography and a general index.
The topic for 2007 was "Rules and Institutions of International Humanitarian Law Put to the Test of Recent Armed Conflicts". It reflects the fact that international humanitarian law has gone through a period of considerable expansion and development in the past two decades, including the conclusion of several new international humanitarian law conventions and codes of offences, the creation of a number of criminal tribunals
to prosecute international humanitarian law violations, and the effort by the ICRC to produce a comprehensive elaboration of customary law in the field. But the topic also reflects the fact that this body of law has been seriously tested by the armed conflicts of recent years, which have often been vast in scope, long in duration and severe in their human consequences. These conflicts have challenged both the norms themselves
and the new institutions that have been created to enforce them.

Cet ouvrage est le fruit des travaux du Centre d'�tude et de recherche de l'Acad�mie de droit international de La Haye de 2007. Un total de vingt-trois jeunes enseignants et praticiens provenant de seize pays diff�rents ont particip� � la session d'�t� du Centre, et tous ont contribu� � une exploration scientifique et � un �change de vues d'un grand int�r�t sur un sujet essentiel. Ce volume comporte les rapports introductifs des deux
directeurs d'�tudes, ainsi que les contributions de treize participants au Centre qui ont �t� jug�es particuli�rement int�ressantes pour �tre publi�es, une bibliographie tr�s �tendue et un index g�n�ral. Le sujet choisi pour 2007 a �t� � Les r�gles et les institutions du droit international humanitaire � l'�preuve des conflits arm�s r�cents �. Ce choix refl�te le fait que le droit international humanitaire a connu une p�riode d'expansion et de d�veloppements importants au cours des deux derni�res d�cennies, y compris la conclusion de plusieurs nouvelles conventions et codes p�naux en cette mati�re, la cr�ation d'un certain nombre de juridictions p�nales pour la r�pression des violations du droit international humanitaire, et les efforts du CICR en vue de circonscrire le droit coutumier dans ce domaine. Mais le choix de ce sujet refl�te �galement le fait que ce corpus de droit a �t� s�rieusement mis � l'�preuve par les r�cents conflits arm�s, lesquels ont souvent �t� vastes dans leur �tendue, longs dans leur dur�e, et s�v�res dans leurs cons�quences humaines. Ces conflits ont mis au d�fi � la fois les normes ellesm�mes et les nouvelles institutions cr��es pour les sanctionner.

Originally published as Colloques / Workshops - Law Books of the Academy, Volume 30.

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