War Crimes Law Comes of Age: EssaysClarendon Press, 1998 - 336 էջ In this edited collection, Theodor Meron, the world's most important author on issues of international humanitarian law, brings together a fascinating collection of his essays on war crimes and related areas, together with a new concluding chapter, from which the book takes its title, which brings together the themes explored in the essays. The rapid and fundamental developments in the last few years on the establishment of individual criminal responsibility for serious violations of international humanitarian law have been such that now more than ever is an appropriate time to assess their principal features. This book will be welcomed by all scholars in the field as a useful and significant contribution to our understanding of international humanitarian law. |
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Codifying Discipline and Humanity | 1 |
Shakespeares Henry the Fifth and the Law of War | 11 |
Crimes and Accountability in Shakespeare | 67 |
Common Rights of Mankind in Gentili Grotius and Suárez | 122 |
Francis Liebers Code and Principles of Humanity | 131 |
Deportation of Civilians as a War Crime under Customary Law | 142 |
Geneva Conventions as Customary Law | 154 |
The Time has Come for the United States to Ratify Geneva Protocol I | 175 |
The Normative Impact on International Law of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia | 210 |
International Criminalization of Internal Atrocities | 228 |
The Continuing Role of Custom in the Formation of International Humanitarian Law | 262 |
Lessons from the Balkans | 278 |
Nicaraguas Fallout | 286 |
War Crimes Law Comes of Age | 296 |
Epilogue | 305 |
Crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court | 310 |
The Case for War Crimes Trials in Yugoslavia | 187 |
From Nuremberg to The Hague | 198 |
Rape as a Crime under International Humanitarian Law | 204 |
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