About the Author:
Dieter Fleck, Dr.iur. (Cologne), is the Former Director International Agreements and Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Honorary President of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War; Member of the Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL); former Chairman of the Committee on Arms Control and Disarmament Law of the International Law Association, and Rapporteur of its new Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-proliferation and Contemporary International Law. He is the author of publications on the law of peace and security, international humanitarian law, and the law of visiting forces.
Review:
Review from previous edition: "[An] important and useful work on international humanitarian law in armed conflicts...All national armed and auxiliary forces throughout the world...should obtain this Handbook and distribute it as widely as possible."
--The Lawyers Review 1996
"An important and highly valuable book in a field of international law that has seen far too few works of this scope in recent decades."
--George H. Aldrich, American Journal of International Law 1996
"Deserves to be on the shelf of all lawyers interested in the law of armed conflict. It is a useful compilation to be added to the rich literature in the field."
--Natalino Ronzitti, Italian Yearbook of International Law, Vol XVIII 2009
"..the work under review...has no equivalent at the present day, and is therefore absolutely necessary to everyone interested in IHL."
--Pierre-Emmanuel Dupont, Caucasian Review of International Affairs, Volume 3, 2, Spring 2009
"...although giving a clear, precise and definitive answer to the current challenges posed by modern international humanitarian law remains an uneasy task-this handbook may be regarded as a fundamental source of knowledge, as it is tailored to support legal advisors on the ground but also
practising lawyers and academics with an interest in international humanitarian law."
--Davide Giovannelli, The Military Law and the Law of War Review 47, 2008
"[This book's] comprehensive presentation of a not easily accessible body of law, its most thoroughly researched and well documented chapters, its clear structure and layout, as well as its easily traceable writing style make it a standard manual on international humanitarian law"
--European Journal of International Law, 20, 2009
"The new edition of the Handbook of International Humanitarian Law gives an up-to-date and even more comprehensive look at international humanitarian law, that certainly tall those who are dealing with it in theory and practice will highly appreciate."
--Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict, Vol 21 April 2008
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