Book Details
Orange Code:91363
Paperback:467 pages
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1. The methodological framework of the Study2. The approach to customary international law in the Study3. Other areas of customary law in relation to the Study4. Status of armed conflicts5. Combatant status6. The law of targeting7. Protected persons and objects8. Natural environment9. Specific methods of warfare10. Weapons, means and methods of warfare11. Fundamental guarantees12. Status and treatment of prisoners of war and other persons deprived of their liberty13. Displacement and displaced persons14. Implementation and compliance15. War crimes16. Conclusions
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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.
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