New wars, new laws? : : applying the laws of war in 21st century conflicts / / edited by David Wippman, and Matthew Evangelista.
This timely new volume brings together experts on the laws of war from academia, the military, and the NGO community to examine the issues surrounding September 11th and its aftermath, which have raised fundamental challenges to the existing corpus of international humanitarian law. The book feature...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ardsley, New York : : Transnational Publishers,, [2005] ©2005 |
| Year of Publication: | 2005 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (309 pages) |
| Notes: | "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. |
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 - Introduction: Do New Wars Call for New Laws?, David Wippman
- Part I - Applying the Law of War to the War on Terrorism
- Chapter 2 - Combating Terrorism:The Consequences of Moving from Law Enforcement to War, William Lietzau
- Chapter 3 - Military Necessity and Due Process:The Place of Human Rights in the War on Terror, Anthony Dworkin
- Chapter 4 - Unlawful Belligerency After September 11: History Revisited and Law Revised, Michael Newton
- Chapter 5 - Post-Westphalian Crime, Dominic McAlea
- Part II - Problems in the Conduct of Armed Conflict
- Chapter 6 - Humans in the Cross-Hairs:Targeting, Assassination and
- Extra-Legal Killing in Contemporary Armed Conflict, Kenneth Watkin
- Chapter 7 - Targeting:The Scope and Utility of the Concept of "Military Objectives" for the Protection of Civilians in Contemporary Armed Conflicts, Marco Sassòli
- Chapter 8 - Collateral Damage and the Principle of Proportionality, Yoram Dinstein
- Part III Law in Occupied Territory
- Chapter 9 - Rewriting Law:The Case of Israel and the Occupied Territories, Kathleen Cavanaugh
- Chapter 10 - Iraq and Occupation, Phillip James Walker
- Table of Cases;Index.