The law of armed conflict international humanitarian law in war - Solis, Gary D. (Cambridge ; New York ; Melbourne : Cambridge University Press, 2010)
Law of armed conflict : international humanitarian law in war. Rules of war, laws of war -- Codes, conventions, declarations, and regulations -- Two world wars and their law of armed conflict results -- Protocols and politics -- Law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law : a framework. Conflict status -- Individual battlefield status -- Law of armed conflict's four core principles -- What is a "war crime"? -- Law of armed conflict and international humanitarian law : battlefield issues. Obedience to orders, the first defense -- Command responsibility and Respondeat Superior -- Ruses and perfidy -- Torture -- Rules of engagement -- Targeting -- Attacks on cultural property -- The 1980 Certain Conventional Weapons Convention -- Gas, biological, and chemical weapons treaties.
Bibliogr. p. 623-652. Index.
Keywords: War (International law); Humanitarian law; Humanitarian law; War (International law)