Weapons and the law of armed conflict /

Fully updated to include recent developments in the law of armed conflict, this volume interprets the rules governing the use of weapons, discusses the factors influencing developments in the law, and contextualizes the debate over the direction of weapons law.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Boothby, William H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law - TRIAL (20 Oct 2020)
Temas:
Military weapons > Law and legislation.
Nuclear weapons (International law)
War (International law)
Humanitarian law.
Armes nucléaires (Droit international)
Guerre (Droit international)
Droit international humanitaire.
LAW > International.
Humanitarian law
Military weapons > Law and legislation
Conventional weapons.
Nuclear weapons.
Armed conflicts.
Laws of war.
International criminal law.
International humanitarian law.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • The evolution of the law of weaponry
  • Components of the international law of weaponry
  • The use of weapons and the law of targeting
  • Customary principles-superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering
  • Customary principles-indiscriminate weapons
  • Weapons and the environment
  • Conventional Weapons Convention
  • Poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating gases, biological and chemical weapons
  • Firearms, bullets, and analogous projectiles
  • Mines, booby-traps, and other devices
  • Rules relating to other specific technologies
  • Nuclear weapons
  • Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems
  • Cluster munitions
  • Maritime and outer space weapons
  • Unexploded and abandoned weapons
  • Non-international armed conflict
  • Compliance with international weapons law
  • Technology, humanitarian concern, and the future.

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