The right to life [electronic resource] / Christian Tomuschat, Evelyne Lagrange and Stefan Oeter (editors).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tomuschat, Christian.

Lagrange, Evelyne.

Oeter, Stefan.

Series:

Nijhoff eBook titles

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Right to life--Congresses.

Right to life.

Humanitarian law--Congresses.

Humanitarian law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (432 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, c2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The right to life stands at the heart of human rights protection. Individuals cannot enjoy any of the rights guaranteed to them unless their physical existence is ensured. All human rights instrument list the right to life as the first one of their safeguards. Nonetheless, in many situations human life finds itself under structural threat. Although obligated by law to protect the right to life, State authorities time and again engage in deliberate acts of killing. Fortunately, international review bodies have devised many imaginative counter-strategies. Another one of those structural threats

Contents:

The right to life : legal and political foundations / Christian Tomuschat

'Death is different' : the death penalty and the right to a fair trial / Walter Kälin

Le recours à la force par la police / Paul Tavernier

The duty to investigate the death of persons arrested and/or detained by public authorities / Vera Rusinova

The bundesverfassungsgericht on the German Aerial Security Law : a sonderweg from the perspective of international law? / Georg Nolte

Le crime de génocide dans la jurisprudence internationale : débats et hypothèses / Rafaëlle Maison

The right to life and the relationship between human rights and humanitarian law / Vera Gowlland-Debbas

The ICRC's clarification process on the notion of direct participation in hostilities under international humanitarian law / Nils Melzer

Collateral damages : military necessity and the right to life / Stefan Oeter

The status of captured fighters in non-international armed conflict / Michael Bothe

Les " combattants irréguliers " en situation d'occupation militaire / Philippe Weckel

Targeted killings : a challenge for international law? / Stefanie Schmahl

Assassinats ciblés et droit à la vie dans la jurisprudence de la Cour suprême israélienne / Hélène Tigroudja

Le tyrannicide en droit international / Jean d'Aspremont

Le droit à la vie et le droit à une alimentation suffisante / Emmanuel Decaux

The right to life and the right to health, in particular the obligation to reduce child mortality / Eibe Riedel

'Réfugiés écologiques' et droit international / Astrid Epiney

Conclusions générales : " le droit à la vie en tant que jus cogens donnant naissance à des obligations erga omnes? " / Pierre d'Argent.

Notes:

"Papers from the conference held in Hamburg in October 2008 by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Volkerrecht (German Society of International Law) and the French Société française pour le droit international"--P. viii.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-282-95259-5

9786612952593

90-04-18965-3

OCLC:

701704170

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004183919.i-424 DOI