Law at war : the law as it was and the law as it should be / edited by Ola Engdahl, Pal Wrange.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Engdahl, Ola.

Wrange, Pål.

Bring, Ove, 1943-

Series:

International humanitarian law series ; v. 22.

International humanitarian law series, 1389-6776 ; v. 22

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

War (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (340 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The authors of this volume have been inspired by the scholar to which this Liber Amicorum is dedicated - Professor Ove Bring - to look into both the past and the future of international law. Like Ove Bring, they have dealt with many aspects of the law governing the use of force, from arms control to human rights, international criminal law, the UN Charter, and, of course, international humanitarian law. Like Professor Bring, they have allowed themselves to draw trajectories from history and into the future, and have shunned away from neither the controversial nor the speculative, be it on the Middle East, the invasion of Iraq or the independence of Kosovo. This collection brings together insights from a former UN Legal Counsel, a former Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, present and former judges of the European Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, one present and one former member of the International Law Commission, as well as law professors and practitioners, from all Nordic countries, Germany and Australia. Together they form a highly challenging mosaic of perspectives on topical issues like cluster munitions, targeting, human rights in peace operations and the purposes of sentencing in international tribunals. The volume also contains a bibliography and a presentation of Professor Bring's work.

Contents:

From Ove to Bring / Marie Jacobsson

The writings of Ove Bring

Legal restraints on the use of armed force / Hans Blix

Individual responsibility under national and international law for the conduct of armed conflict / Iain Cameron

Reflections on the Security Council and its mandate to maintain international peace and security / Hans Corell

National sovereignty and responsibility for spent nuclear fuel / Per Cramer

The developing relationship between law and politics in the United Nations Human Rights Council / Gudmundur Eiriksson

The future of human rights law in peace operations / Ola Engdahl

Sense and sensibility in sentencing : taking stock of international criminal punishment / Frederik Harhoff

Submarine operations and international law / Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg

Occupation and sovereignty : still a useful distinction? / Martti Koskenniemi

The Second Lebanon War : reflections on the 2006 Israeli military operations against Hezbollah / Said Mahmoudi

Cluster munitions, proportionalityand the foreseeability of civilian damage / Timothy L.H. McCormack & Paramdeep B. Mtharu

Sacrificial violence and targeting in international humanitarian law / Gregor Noll

J.J. Rousseau and the law of armed force / Allan Rosas

Secession, self-determination of 'peoples' and recognition : the case of Kosovo's declaration of independence and international law / Per Sevastik

Fighting for justice : Ake Hammarskjold at the Permanent Court of International Justice / Ole Spiermann

Do we need a World Court of Human Rights? / Geir Ulfstein

Neutrality, impartiality and our responsibility to uphold international law / Pal Wrange

The diluted, dismantled, disjointed and resilient old collective security system : or, decision-making and the use of force : the law as it could be / Inger Osterdahl.

Notes:

"Liber Amicorum Ove Bring."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-39974-8

9786612399749

90-474-3150-2

OCLC:

567642841

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004170162.1-340 DOI