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By Michael N. Schmitt, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
June 12, 2019
The essays selected for this volume explore the entire range of issues related to the question of how to implement and enforce international humanitarian law. Measures of self-help that used to play a key role in past international armed conflicts, especially reprisals, have increasingly been ...
By Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Michael N. Schmitt
June 07, 2019
Detention and occupation are two challenging aspects of international humanitarian law in 21st century warfare. The essays selected for this volume examine the historical foundations of these issues, as well as the contemporary practices surrounding them. Detention law was prominently codified ...
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By Michael N. Schmitt, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
June 07, 2019
This volume is the first of two addressing the legal regime governing the use of force during armed conflicts. Traditionally labeled 'Hague Law', today the norms it examines are commonly referred to as 'conduct of hostilities rules'. At the heart of this body of law is the principle of distinction...
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By Michael N. Schmitt, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
June 07, 2019
The essays selected for this second volume on the conduct of hostilities examine discrete topics of international humanitarian law that are particularly relevant to 21st century warfare. It commences with an examination of the adequacy of traditional weapons law in the face of modern weaponry that...
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By Michael N. Schmitt, Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg
August 30, 2012
The essays selected for the first part of this volume offer an insight into the development, as distinguished from the history, of international humanitarian law. The focus of the majority of the works reprinted here is on an analysis of the adequacy of the law as it stood at the time of the ...
By Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Michael N. Schmitt
August 24, 2012
The applicability of international humanitarian law requires the existence of an armed conflict that is either international or non-international in character. Accordingly, the concept of armed conflict (as well as the related notion of war) and its temporal and material limits are the focus of ...