Human Rights in Times of Conflict and Terrorism - Softcover

Doswald-Beck, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019957894X ISBN 13: 9780199578948

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

The extent to which international human rights law continues to apply in situations of armed conflict or national emergency is often unclear. This book sets out how human rights law applies in situations of violence or upheaval, systematically covering the whole range of rights and concentrating on relevant case law and international instruments.

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About the Author

Louise Doswald-Beck is a Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International Studies at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She was formerly Director of its predecessor, the University Center for International Humanitarian Law.

Initially a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter and London, between 1987 and 2001 she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. At the ICRC, she acted in negotiations leading to various international instruments: the Statute of the International Criminal Court and its Elements of Crimes, Protocols II and IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, and Protocol II to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property. She won the Ciardi Prize for co-authoring the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law, and has written extensively on the use of of force and human rights.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019957894X
• ISBN 13: 9780199578948
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 600