War crimes law comes of age : essays
Professor Meron presents a picture of the evolution of international humanitarian and criminal law, slow at first, but dramatic since the beginning of the atrocities in the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. His book will be welcomed by all humanitarian and human rights scholars, by NGOs and by all persons interested in accountability for war crimes, as a useful and significant contribution to our understanding of humanitarian law
Print Book, English, 1998
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, 1998
ix, 336 pages ; 24 cm
9780198268567, 0198268564
39785248
I. Medieval and Renaissance Ordinances of War: Codifying Discipline and Humanity
II. Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth and the Law of War
III. Crimes and Accountability in Shakespeare
IV. Common Rights of Mankind in Gentili, Grotius and Suarez
V. Francis Lieber's Code and Principles of Humanity
VI. Deportation of Civilians as a War Crime under Customary Law
VII. Geneva Conventions as Customary Law
VIII. The Time has Come for the United States to Ratify Geneva Protocol I
IX. The Case for War Crimes Trials in Yugoslavia
X. From Nuremberg to The Hague
XI. Rape as a Crime under International Humanitarian Law
XII. The Normative Impact on International Law of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia
XIII. International Criminalization of Internal Atrocities
XIV. The Continuing Role of Custom in the Formation of International Humanitarian Law
XV. Answering for War Crimes: Lessons from the Balkans
XVI. Classification of Armed Conflict in the former Yugoslavia: Nicaragua's Fallout
XVII. War Crimes Law Comes of Age
Annex. Crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
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