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New wars, new laws? : applying the laws of war in 21st century conflicts / edited by David Wippman & Matthew Evangelista.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ardsley, N.Y. : Transnational Publishers, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: v, 303 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1571053158
  • 9781571053152
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 341.6 22
LOC classification:
  • KZ6355 .N49 2005
Contents:
Introduction: do new wars call for new laws? / David Wippman -- Combating terrorism: the consequences of moving from law enforcement to war / William Leitzau -- Military necessity and due process: the place of human rights in the war on terror / Anthony Dworkin -- Unlawful belligerency after September 11: history revisited and law revised / Michael Newton -- Post-Westphalian crime / Dominic McAlea -- Humans in the cross-hairs: targeting, assassination and extra-legal killing in contemporary armed conflict / Kenneth Watkin -- Targeting: the scope and utility of the concept of "military objectives" for the protection of civilians in contemporary armed conflicts / Marco Sassoli -- Collateral damage and the principle of proportionality / Yoram Dinstein -- Rewriting law: the case of Israel and the Occupied Territories / Kathleen Cavanaugh -- Iraq and occupation / Phillip James Walker.
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"This volume originated in a conference held in June 2003, co-sponsored by the Clarke Center and the Berger Program for International and Comparative Legal Studies at Cornell Law School and the Cornell Peace Studies Program"--Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: do new wars call for new laws? / David Wippman -- Combating terrorism: the consequences of moving from law enforcement to war / William Leitzau -- Military necessity and due process: the place of human rights in the war on terror / Anthony Dworkin -- Unlawful belligerency after September 11: history revisited and law revised / Michael Newton -- Post-Westphalian crime / Dominic McAlea -- Humans in the cross-hairs: targeting, assassination and extra-legal killing in contemporary armed conflict / Kenneth Watkin -- Targeting: the scope and utility of the concept of "military objectives" for the protection of civilians in contemporary armed conflicts / Marco Sassoli -- Collateral damage and the principle of proportionality / Yoram Dinstein -- Rewriting law: the case of Israel and the Occupied Territories / Kathleen Cavanaugh -- Iraq and occupation / Phillip James Walker.

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