Perspectives on the ICRC study on customary international humanitarian law / edited by Elizabeth Wilmshurst and Susan Breau.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Wilmshurst, Elizabeth, editor.

Breau, Susan Carolyn, 1955- editor.

British Institute of International and Comparative Law, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Committee of the Red Cross.

Humanitarian law.

Combatants and noncombatants (International law).

War--Protection of civilians.

War.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxi, 433 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

The International Committee of the Red Cross's study of Customary International Humanitarian Law by Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck (Cambridge University Press, 2005) contains a unique collection of evidence of the practice of States and non-State actors in the field of international humanitarian law, together with the authors' assessment of that practice and their compilation of rules of customary law based on that assessment. The study invites comment on its compilation of rules. Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law was originally published in 2007, and results from a year-long examination of the study by a group of military lawyers, academics and practitioners, all with experience in international humanitarian law. The book discusses the study, its methodology and its rules and provides a critical analysis of them. It adds its own contribution to scholarship on the interpretation and application of international humanitarian law.

Contents:

Part I. Setting the Scene: Theoretical Perspectives on International Law in the ICRC Study:

The methodological framework of the study / Daniel Bethlehem

The approach to customary international law in the study / Iain Scobbie

Other areas of customary law in relation to the study / Françoise Hampson

Part II. Status of Conflict and Combatants: The ICRC Study

Status of conflict / Jelena Pejić

Combatant status / Anthony Rogers

Part III. Commentary on Selected Rules from the ICRC study

Targeting / Michael Schmitt

. Protected persons and objects / Susan C. Breau

Natural environment / Karen Hulme

Specific methods of warfare / William J. Fenrick

Weapons, means and methods of warfare / Steven Haines

Fundamental guarantees / Françoise Hampson

Status and tretament of prisoners of war and other persons deprived of their liberty / Agnieszka Jachec-Neale

Displacement and displaced persons / Ryszard Piotrowicz

Implementation and compliance / David Turns

War crimes / Charles Garraway

Conclusions / Elizabeth Wilmshurst.

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ISBN:

9780511495182

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