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Necessity, Proportionality and the Use of Force by States
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 42.00Against the background of recent armed conflicts under the United Nations Charter, this book considers how the requirements of proportionality and necessity operate as legal restraints on the forceful actions of States. It also examines the relationship between proportionality in the law on the use of force and international humanitarian law. more...
Humanitarian Intervention
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 38.00An interdisciplinary approach to humanitarian intervention by experts in law, politics, and ethics. more...
The Threat of Force in International Law
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 34.00This book examines the relationship between military coercion and international law. more...
International Humanitarian Law Facing New Challenges
Springer 2007; US$ 129.99Recent armed conflicts, whether international or non-international in character, are in many respects characterized by a variety of asymmetries. These asymmetries may be overstressed, sometime even abused, and ultimately virtually meaningless. Still, either as such or in conjunction with other developments, they seem to challenge the law of armed conflicts... more...
Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 66.00A commentary on Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge University Press, 2005). more...
United Nations Sanctions and the Rule of Law
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 50.00Farrall surveys the history of UN sanctions. more...
Human Security and International Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2007; US$ 84.60Aims to evaluate human security as a concept that could be used in the analysis of international law, and to determine what insights about a human security approach might be gained by considering it from the perspective of international law. more...
Aggression and Crimes Against Peace
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 25.00In this volume, Larry May locates a normative grounding for the crime of aggression. more...
An Introduction to the International Law of Armed Conflicts
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 59.40This book provides a modern and basic introduction to a branch of international law constantly gaining in importance in international life, namely international humanitarian law (the law of armed conflict). It is constructed in a way suitable for self-study. The subject-matters are discussed in self-contained chapters, allowing each to be studied independently... more...
The Iraq War and International Law
Hart Publishing Limited 2008; US$ 61.20The decision by the US and UK governments to use military force against Iraq in 2003 and the subsequent occupation and administration of that State, has brought into sharp focus fundamental fault lines in international law. The decision to invade, the conduct of the war and occupation and the mechanisms used to administer the country all challenge... more...









