War Crimes Law Comes of Age

Essays
Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-19-826856-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 687 g

In this edited collection, Theodor Meron, the world's most important author on issues of international humanitarian law, brings together a fascinating collection of his essays on war crimes and related areas, together with a new concluding chapter, from which the book takes its title, which brings together the themes explored in the essays.

The rapid and fundamental developments in the last few years on the establishment of individual criminal responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law have been such that now more than ever is an appropriate time to assess their principal features. This book will be welcomed by all scholars in the field as a useful and significant contribution to our understanding of international humanitarian law.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meron, Theodor

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Kriegsrecht, Territorialrecht, Humanitäres Recht
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Öffentliches Recht, Völkerrecht, Internationale Organisationen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Völkermord, Ethnische Säuberung, Kriegsverbrechen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Medieval and renaissance ordinances of war: codifying discipline and humanity

- Shakespeare's Henry V and the law of war

- Crimes and accountability in Shakespeare

- Common rights of mankind in Gentili, Grotius and Suàrez

- Francis Lieber's code and principles of humanity

- Deportation of civilians as a war crime under customary law

- Geneva Conventions as customary law

- The time has come for the United States to ratify Geneva Protocol I

- The case for war crimes in Yugoslavia

- From Nuremberg to the Hague

- Rape as a crime under international humanitarian law

- The normative impact of the international tribunal for former Yugoslavia

- International criminalization of internal atrocities

- The continuing role of custom in the formation of international humanitarian law

- Answering for war crimes: lessons from the Balkans

- Classification of armed conflict in former Yugoslavia: Nicaragua's fallout

- War crimes law comes of age

Über Autor(innen)

Theodor Meron is Professor of International Law at New York University School of Law, specialising in human rights, humanitarian law, international criminal law and law and literature.