Synopses & Reviews
Armed conflicts and military occupations are the subject of an extensive body of international law that covers a wide variety of issues. Documents on the Laws of War answers the need for a volume that focuses on the major currently applicable agreements. It contains the texts of twenty-five formal international agreements, from the 1856 Paris Declaration to the 1981 U.N. Weapons Convention. Each document is prefaced by useful notes by the editors explaining the legal and historical context of the agreement. In addition, each binding international agreement is followed by a complete and authoritative list of all the countries party to it, along with the dates of adherence and details of any reservations or declarations that the countries have made.
Review
Praise for the first edition: "It is not just in places where public international law is taught that this volume of documents is going to be useful. With the rising of the current tide of interest and concern about the shape armaments and militarism are giving to our collective future and about the likely chatacter of its warfare, rises also an Pnxious public interest in the potential value of legal prohibitions and restraints in war....Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men."--
New Society"Not a single textual inaccuracy....Editorial judgements are consistently sound....The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival
"Indispensable to practitioners and students alike....We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors."--International Affairs
Review
"Masterly...The third edition of Roberts and Guelff's Documents on the Laws of War is an essential and invaluable working tool for all those who are interested in international humanitarian law."--International Review of the Red Cross, Geneva.
"An indispensable tool for any international lawyer."--Professor Antonio Cassese, President of the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal, The Hague
" ... an invaluable resource for all practitioners and scholars of international law. The publication of the third edition could not have been more timely."-- Professor Christopher Greenwood, London School of Economics
"Indispensable to practitioners and students alike ... We are much indebted to the patient and scholarly labours of the two editors."-- International Affairs
"Editorial judgements are consistently sound ... The selection of documents is impeccable."--Survival
Synopsis
This second edition, extensively revised and updated, is an essential reference on the legal basis of war, and is indispensable for diplomats, lawyers, journalists, and students of international relations and law.
Synopsis
Armed conflicts and military occupations are the subject of an extensive body of international law that covers a wide variety of issues. Documents on the Laws of War answers the need for a volume that focuses on the major currently applicable agreements. It contains the texts of twenty-five formal international agreements, from the 1856 Paris Declaration to the 1981 U.N. Weapons Convention. Each document is prefaced by useful notes by the editors explaining the legal and historical context of the agreement. In addition, each binding international agreement is followed by a complete and authoritative list of all the countries party to it, along with the dates of adherence and details of any reservations or declarations that the countries have made.
Synopsis
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [735]-746) and index.
About the Author
Professor Sir Adam Roberts is President of the British Academy and Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University, and Emeritus Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford University. His main academic interests are in the fields of international security, international organizations, and international law (including the laws of war). He has also worked extensively on the role of civil resistance against dictatorial regimes and foreign rule, and on the history of thought about international relations. Professor Robert's is the co-editor of Civil Resistance and Power Politics (OUP 2008) and Hugo Grotius and International Relations (OUP 1992).
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
Introduction by the Editors
1856 Paris Declaration Respecting Maritime Law
1868 St Petersburg Declaration Renouncing the Use, in Time of War, of Explosive Projectiles Under 400 Grammes Weight
1899 Hague Declaration 2 Concerning Asphyxiating Gases
1899 Hague Declaration 3 Concerning Expanding Bullets
1907 Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
Annex to the Convention: Regulations Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land
1907 Hague Convention V Respecting the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land
1907 Hague Convention VII Relating to the Conversion of Merchant Ships into Warships
1907 Hague Convention VIII Relative to the Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines
1907 Hague Convention IX Concerning Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War
1907 Hague Convention XI Relative to Certain Restrictions with Regard to Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War
1907 Hague Convention XIII Concerning the Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War
1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare
1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare
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
1946 Judgment of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg: Extracts on Crimes Against International Law
1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
1949 Geneva Convention I for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field
1949 Geneva Convention II for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea
1949 Geneva Convention III Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War
1949 Geneva Convention IV Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War
1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
Regulations for the Execution of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
1954 First Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
1976 UN Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques
1977 Geneva Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts
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
1978 Red Cross Fundamental Rules of International Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts
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
1980 Protocol I on Non-Detectable Fragments
1980 Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices
1980 Protocol III on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Incendiary Weapons
1995 Protocol IV on Blinding Laser Weapons
1996 Amended Protocol II on Prohibitions or Restrictions on the Use of Mines, Booby-Traps and Other Devices
1991 Operation Desert Storm, US Rules of Engagement (Pocket Card)
1993 Statute of International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia: Extracts
1994 San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea
1994 ICRC/UNGA Guidelines for Military Manuals and Instructions on the Protection of the Environment in Time of Armed Conflict
1994 Statute of International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda: Extracts
1994 UN Convention on the Safety of United Nations and Associated Personnel
1996 Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons: Extract
1997 Ottawa Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction
1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Extracts
1999 Second Hague Protocol for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict
1999 UN Secretary-General's Bulletin on Observance by UN Forces of International Humanitarian Law
Appendix I : Emblems and Signs
Appendix II : Electronic Media
Select Bibliography on the Laws of War
Index