Documents on the Laws of War,9780198763901

Documents on the Laws of War

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Edition: 3rd
ISBN13: 9780198763901
ISBN10: 0198763905
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2000-06-22
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This new edition of the popular and authoritative text on the laws of war has been revised and completely updated to take account of the many diplomatic, legal and military developments of the last ten years. Conflicts in the Gulf, Yugoslavia and Rwanda in the 1990s have ensured that the laws of war remain a topic of considerable international relevance.

Author Biography


Adam Roberts is Montague Burton Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Balliol College.
Richard Guelff is a member of the District of Columbia Bar with an international law practice in London and counsel to a law firm in Geneva.

Table of Contents

Note on Third Edition vi
Acknowledgements viii
Principal Abbreviations xv
Introduction By the Editors 1(46)
Documents
1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
47(6)
1868 St. Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight
53(6)
1899 Hague Declaration 2 Concerning Asphyxiating Gases
59(4)
1899 Hague Declaration 3 Concerning Expanding Bullets
63(4)
1907 Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
67(18)
Annex to the Convention: Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
73(12)
1907 Hague Convention V Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land
85(10)
1907 Hague Convention VII Relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into Warships
95(8)
1907 Hague Convention VIII Relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines
103(8)
1907 Hague Convention IX Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War
111(8)
1907 Hague Convention XI Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War
119(8)
1907 Hague Convention XIII Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War
127(12)
1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare
139(16)
1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
155(14)
1936 London Proces-Verbal Relating to the Rules of Submarine Warfare Set Forth in Part IV of the Treaty of London of 22 April 1930
169(6)
1946 Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: Extracts on Crimes Against International law
175(4)
1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
179(16)
1949 Geneva Convention I for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
195(26)
1949 Geneva Convention II for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
221(22)
1949 Geneva Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
243(56)
1949 Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
299(72)
1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
371(26)
Regulations for the Execution of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
387(10)
1954 First Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
397(10)
1976 UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
407(12)
1977 Geneva Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
419(62)
1977 Geneva Protocol II Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed Conflicts
481(32)
1978 Red Cross Fundamental Rules of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts
513(2)
1980 UN Convention on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons Which May be Deemed to be Excessively Injurious or to Have Indiscriminate Effects
515(46)
1980 Protocol I on Non-Detectable Fragments
527(1)
1980 Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices
528(5)
1980 Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons
533(2)
1995 Protocl IV on Blinding Laser Weapons
535(1)
1996 Amended Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices
536(25)
1991 Operation Desert Storm, US Rules of Engagement: Pocket Card
561(4)
1993 Staute of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia: Extracts
565(8)
1994 San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea
573(34)
1994 ICRC/UNGA Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on the Protection of the Environment in Times of Armed Conflict
607(8)
1994 Statute of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Extracts
615(8)
1994 UN Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
623(16)
1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: Extract
639(6)
1997 Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
645(22)
1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Extracts
667(32)
1999 Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
699(22)
1999 UN Secretary-General's Bulletin on Observance by United Nations Forces of International Humanitarian Law
721(10)
Appendix I: Emblems and Signs 731(2)
Appendix II: Electronic Media 733(2)
Select Bibliography on the Laws of War 735(12)
Index 747

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