Making and shaping the law of armed conflict / editors Professor Sandesh Sivakumaran, Captain Christian R. Burne.

"This Volume explores the making and shaping of the law of armed conflict. A variety of aspects of law-making and shaping are analysed, from identification of a rule of customary international humanitarian law to questions of treaty interpretation and from whether and how to regulate a 'ne...

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Other Authors: Sivakumaran, Sandesh (Editor), Burne, Christian R. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]
Series:Lieber studies ; v. 10.
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Summary:"This Volume explores the making and shaping of the law of armed conflict. A variety of aspects of law-making and shaping are analysed, from identification of a rule of customary international humanitarian law to questions of treaty interpretation and from whether and how to regulate a 'new' situation to whether a treaty rule continues to bind the parties. Issues of making and shaping the law underlie almost every contentious legal issue, from whether an intended practice is covered by an existing rule of conventional or customary international humanitarian law to the weight to be given to interpretations of particular actors. Despite the importance of questions of making and shaping the law, there are relatively few in depth treatments of the subject. The Volume explores the fundamental materials of the law of armed conflict, actors and influences, spaces and questions of unmaking"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xxiv, 368 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780197775165
0197775160
9780197775141
0197775144
9780197775158
0197775152
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 03, 2024).