The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law in War - Hardcover

Solis, Gary D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521870887 ISBN 13: 9780521870887

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

The Law of Armed Conflict: International Humanitarian Law introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. What law of armed conflict/international humanitarian law applies to particular armed conflicts? Does that law apply to terrorists as well? What is the status of participants in an armed conflict? What constitutes a war crime? What is a lawful target and how are targeting decisions made? What are rules of engagement? What weapons are lawful and unlawful, and why? This text takes the reader through these essential questions of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to an awareness of finer points of battlefield law. The U.S.-weighted text incorporates lessons from many nations and includes hundreds of cases from jurisdictions worldwide.

About this title

Book Description:

This book introduces law students and undergraduates to the law of war in an age of terrorism. It takes the reader through essential questions of the law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law to an awareness of finer points of battlefield law. The U.S.-weighted text incorporates lessons from many nations and includes hundreds of cases from jurisdictions worldwide.

About the Author:

Gary D. Solis is a retired Professor of Law of the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he headed the law of war program. He received Phi Kappa Phi's distinguished teaching award and, in 2006, the Apgar Award as the Military Academy's outstanding instructor. He is a retired U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, holds a Ph.D. in the law of war from The London School of Economics & Political Science, and is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. Solis is the author of Marines and Military Law in Vietnam and Son Thang: An American War Crime.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521870887
• ISBN 13: 9780521870887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 692