The human dimension of international law: selected papers/

Other Authors: Gaeta, Paola, Zappala, Salvatore
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK ; New York: Oxford University Press, 2008
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Current trends in the development of the law of armed conflict
  • The Martens clause : half a loaf or simply pie in the sky?
  • The diffusion of revolutionary ideas and the evolution of international law
  • Wars of national liberation and humanitarian law
  • Civil war and international law
  • The Spanish civil war and the development of customary law concerning internal armed conflicts
  • The status of rebels under the 1977 Geneva protocol on non-international armed conflicts
  • The prohibition of indiscriminate means of warfare
  • Weapons causing unnecessary suffering : are they prohibited?
  • Means of warfare : the traditional and the new law
  • Powers and duties of an occupant in relation to land and natural resources
  • Legal considerations on the international status of Jerusalem
  • Prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment
  • Can the notion of inhuman and degrading treatment be applied to socio-economic conditions?
  • A new approach to human rights : the European convention for the prevention of torture
  • The European committee for the prevention of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment comes of age
  • Foreign economic assistance and respect for civil and political rights : Chile
  • a case study
  • A 'contribution' by the west to the struggle against hunger : the Nestle? affair
  • Remarks on the present legal regulation of crimes of states
  • On the current trends towards criminal prosecution and punishment of breaches and international humanitarian law
  • The international community, terrorism and human rights
  • Terrorism is also disrupting some crucial legal categories of international law
  • Crimes against humanity : comments on some problematic aspects
  • Abraham and Antigone : two conflicting imperatives
  • The statute of the international criminal court : some preliminary reflections.