Reflections on Law and Armed Conflicts : : The Selected Works on the Laws of War by the Late Professor Colonel G. I. A. C. Draper, OBE.

• Author: McCoubrey, Hilaire.
• TeilnehmendeR: Meyer, Michael A.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : BRILL,, 1998.; ©1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (318 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Biographical Note -- List of Publications -- Chapter 1 Christianity and War -- Prefatory Note -- The Origins of the Just War Tradition -- The Christian and War -- Penitential Discipline and Public Wars in the Middle Ages -- Chapter 2 Development of the Law of War -- Prefatory Note -- The Contribution of the Emperor Asoka Maurya to the Development of the Humanitarian Ideal in Warfare -- Grotius' Place in the Development of Legal Ideas about War -- The Historical Background and General Principles of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 -- The Emerging Law of Weapons Restraint -- The Development of International Humanitarian Law -- Chapter 3 Implementation and Enforcement -- Prefatory Note -- Rules Governing the Conduct of Hostilities - the Laws of War and their Enforcement -- Collective and Individual Responsibility for the Application of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts -- The Implementation of the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the Additional Protocols of 1977 -- The Place of the Laws of War in Military Instruction -- Comments on Military Manuals -- Chapter 4 Humanitarian Law and Human Rights -- Prefatory Note -- The Relationship between the Human Rights Regime and the Law of Armed Conflict -- Human Rights and the Law of Armed Conflicts: General Principles of Implementation -- Humanitarian Law and Human Rights -- Chapter 5 War Criminality -- Prefatory Note -- The Modern Pattern of War Criminality -- The Eichmann Trial - A Judicial Precedent -- Wars of National Liberation and War Criminality -- Chapter 6 Personnel and Issues of Status -- Prefatory Note -- The Legal Classification of Belligerent Individuals -- The Status of Combatants and the Question of Guerrilla Warfare -- The Historical Perspective of the Status of Women in the Armed Forces.

Protection of Religious Personnel in War -- Chapter 7 Comments on World Events -- Prefatory Note -- Some Legal Aspects of Forced Repatriation of Soviet Citizens -- A Legal Evaluation of the Final Report of the Commission of Inquiry into the Events at the Refugee Camps in Beirut 1982 -- Index.