Weapons and the law of armed conflict/
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Oxford ; New York:
Oxford University Press,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- The evolution of the law of weaponry
- Components of the international law of weaponry
- The use of weapons and the law of targeting
- Customary principles-superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering
- Customary principles-indiscriminate weapons
- Weapons and the environment
- Conventional Weapons Convention
- Poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating gases, biological and chemical weapons
- Firearms, bullets, and analogous projectiles
- The rules relating to mines, booby-traps, and other devices
- Rules relating to other specific technologies
- Nuclear weapons
- Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems
- Cluster munitions
- Weapons in sea warfare
- Unexploded and abandoned weapons
- Non-international armed conflict
- Compliance with international weapons law
- Technology, humanitarian concern, and international weapons law
- The future of weapons law