Investigating civilian casualties in time of armed conflict and belligerent occupation : : manoeuvring between legal regimes and paradigms for the use of force / / by Alon Margalit.

In Investigating Civilian Casualties in Time of Armed Conflict and Belligerent Occupation Alon Margalit discusses the appropriate State response to civilian casualties caused by its armed forces. Various legal and practical challenges, arising when investigating the fatal consequences of the use of...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill Nijhoff,, 2018.
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:International Humanitarian Law Series 54.
Physical Description:1 online resource (304 pages).
Notes:Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of London, 2014), issued under title: Investigating civil casualties in times of armed conflict and occupation.
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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • List of Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • The Investigative Response to Civilian Casualties: More Questions Than Answers
  • Setting the Normative Framework
  • ‘The Trigger Question’: When Do Civilian Casualties Require an Investigation?
  • ‘The Standards Question’: How to Investigate Civilian Casualties?
  • Translating Investigation Obligations to LOAC Situations
  • Investigating Civilian Casualties in Practice
  • Challenges in Classifying and Identifying the Applicable Normative Framework(s)
  • Investigation Models and Constraints in Domestic Military Justice Systems
  • Military In-House Investigations and Some Mitigating Arrangements
  • Civilian Oversight of Military Investigations
  • Looking Forward
  • A Proposal for a Permanent Expert Commission
  • The Duty to Investigate and Shaping the Normative Discourse
  • Table of Treaties and Other International Instruments
  • Table of International Cases
  • Table of Domestic Instruments
  • Table of Domestic Cases.