Weapons and the law of armed conflict / William H. Boothby. [electronic resource]

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Boothby, William H.

Series:

• Oxford scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Military weapons--Law and legislation.
• Nuclear weapons (International law).
• War (International law).
• Humanitarian law.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xlviii, 412 p. )

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is an examination of the international law of armed conflict as it applies to weapons. The text interprets the rules governing the use of weapons and discusses the factors influencing developments in the law.

Contents:

• The evolution of the law of weaponry
• Components of the international law of weaponry
• The use of weapons and the law of targeting
• Customary principles-superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering
• Customary principles-indiscriminate weapons
• Weapons and the environment
• Conventional Weapons Convention
• Poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating gases, biological and chemical weapons
• Firearms, bullets, and analogous projectiles
• The rules relating to mines, booby-traps, and other devices
• Rules relating to other specific technologies
• Nuclear weapons
• Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems
• Cluster munitions
• Weapons in sea warfare
• Unexploded and abandoned weapons
• Non-international armed conflict
• Compliance with international weapons law
• Technology, humanitarian concern, and international weapons law
• The future of weapons law.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [389]-403) and index.
• Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-170525-X