Contemporary Challenges to the Laws of War

Foreword Christopher Greenwood; Preface Caroline Harvey, James Summers and Nigel D. White; 1. Introduction James Summers; 2. Army legal services and academia A. P. V. Rogers and Gordon Risius; Part I. Structural and Systemic Aspects of the Laws of War: 3. Development of new rules or application of more than one legal regime? Dieter Fleck; 4. It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a non-international armed conflict: cross border hostilities between states and non-state actors Lindsay Moir; 5. Security Council mandates and the use of lethal force by peacekeepers: what place for the laws of war? Nigel D. White; 6. The relationship of international humanitarian law and war crimes: international criminal tribunals and their statutes Robert Cryer; Part II. Effective Protection?: 7. The future of Article 5 tribunals in the light of experiences in the Iraq war, 2003 Nicholas Mercer; 8. Direct participation and the principle of distinction: squaring the circle Charles Garraway; 9. Droning on: some international humanitarian law aspects of the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in contemporary armed conflicts David Turns; 10. Does the law of targeting meet twenty-first-century needs? William Boothby; 11. Protecting civilians from the effects of explosive weapons in International Humanitarian Law Maya Brehm; 12. The International Committee of the Red Cross and the initiative to strengthen legal protection for victims of armed conflicts Michael Meyer; Part III. Responsibility and Accountability: 13. Corporate criminal responsibility for war crimes and other violations of international humanitarian law: the impact of the business and human rights movement Alex Batesmith; 14. The trial of prisoners of war by military courts in modern armed conflicts Peter Rowe; 15. The right to conduct one's own defence before the ICTY and a fair and expeditious trial: an impossible balancing act Caroline Harvey.