In this thoroughly updated second edition of what has quickly become the definitive text in
the field of international humanitarian law (IHL), leading expert Marco Sassòli evaluates the …

The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict brings together and critically analyses the
disparate conventional, customary, and soft law relating to non-international armed conflict …

The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and
yet continues to be one of the most dynamic and relevant areas of law today. Now in its third …

The third edition of Ingrid Detter's authoritative work explores the changing legal context of
modern warfare in light of events over the last decade. Ingrid Detter reviews the status of non …

On June 8, 1977, following two years of preparatory meetings and four years of negotiations,
the Diplomatic Conference on the Reaffirmation and Development of International …

DECONSTRUCTING DIRECT PARTICIPATION IN HOSTILITIES: THE CONSTITUTIVE
ELEMENTS The product of five years of efforts by a group of Page 1 DECONSTRUCTING …

In 2014, a militant group calling itself the Islamic State (ISIS), rapidly took over more than
thirty percent of the territory of Syria and Iraq. 2 In the process, it captured billions of dollars …

The primary purpose of international humanitarian law (IHL) is to protect the victims of armed
conflict and to regulate the conduct of hostilities based on a balance between military …

This is the first book to explore the concept of'Grotian Moments'. Named for Hugo Grotius,
whose masterpiece De jure belli ac pacis helped marshal in the modern system of …

Critical to the law of targeting is the principle of distinction. Under this most fundamental of
principles, at all times during military operations a distinction must be maintained between …