1. | Joenniemi, Pertti : Civil resistance and the law of military occupations, 1974 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: part of a serial Civil resistance and the law of military occupations / Joenniemi, Pertti ; Roberts, Adam REFERENCE TO GENERIC UNIT (Periodica): Instant research on peace and violence : No. 4(1)., p.38-46. - Tampere : TAPRI (D), 1974. LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: The article is relating the practice of civil resistance to that part of international law which deals with the question of foreign military occupation of a country, and whether international law in its present form implies a general duty of obedience to an occupying power, and to what extent civilians are able to resist the arms of the occupier without explicitly breaking the rules of international law. INDEX WORDS:
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2. | British year book of international law 2006 , 2007 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph series British year book of international law 2006 : 77. year of issue /, xiii, 943 p.. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-923898-9 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Contents:. The Law And Procedure Of The International Court Of Justice 1960-1989. Supplement, 2006: Part Three , Hugh Thirlway. The 'Sinews of Peace': International Law, Strategy, and the Prevention of War , Guglielmo Verdirame. From 'Contract' to 'Pledge': The Structure of International Human Rights Agreements , Lea Brilmayer. Congo's War: The Legal Dimension of a Protracted Conflict , Phoebe Okawa. Occupation Law And Multi-National Operations: Problems And Perspectives , Siobhan Wills. Public Law Enforcement without Public Law Safeguards? An analysis of State Practice on Third-Party Countermeasures and their relationship to the UN Security Council , Martin Dawidowicz. INDEX WORDS:
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3. | Cassese, Antonio : The human dimension of international law, 2008 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph The human dimension of international law : selected papers / Cassese, Antonio, lxxxi, 539 p.. - New York : Oxford university press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-19-923291-8 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Table of Contents. I. The Human Dimension of Wars. A. General. 1. Current trends in the Development of the Law of Armed Conflict. 2. The Martens Clause: Half a Loaf or Simply Pie in the Sky? 3. Revolution and International Law. B. Classes of Wars and Belligerents. 4. Wars of National Liberation and Humanitarian Law. 5. Civil War and International Law. 6. The Spanish Civil War and the Development of Customary Law Concerning Internal Armed Conflicts. 7. The Status of Rebels under the 1977 Geneva Protocol on Non-International Armed Conflicts. C. Means of Warfare. 8. The Prohibition of Indiscriminate Means of Warfare. 9. Weapons Causing Unnecessary Suffering: Are They Prohibited? 10. Means of Warfare: The Traditional and the New Law. D. Military Occupation. 11. Powers and Duties of an Occupant in Relation to Land and Natural Resources. 12. Legal Considerations on the International Status of Jerusalem. II. Our Common Rights. A. Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatments. 13. Prohibition of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment. 14. Can the Notion of Inhuman and Degrading Treatment be Applied to Socio-Economic Conditions? 15. A New Approach to Human Rights: The European Convention for the Prevention of Torture. 16. The European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment Comes of Age. B. Economic Assistance and Human Rights. 17. Foreign Economic Assistance and Respect for Civil and Political Rights: Chile - A Case Study. 18. Foreign Economic Assistance and Human Rights: Two Different Approaches. 19. A 'Contribution' by the West to the Struggle against Hunger: the Nestlé affair. III. Fighting State and Individual Criminality. A. State 'Criminality' v. Individual's Criminal Liability. 20. Remarks on the Present Legal Regulation of Crimes of States. 21. On the Current Trends towards Criminal Prosecution and Punishment of Breaches of International Humanitarian Law. B. International Crimes of Individuals. 22. The International Community, Terrorism and Human Rights. 23. Terrorism is also Disrupting Some Crucial Legal Categories of International Law. 24. Crimes against Humanity: Comments on Some Problematical Aspects. C. Respondeat Superior v. Subordinates' Liability. 25. Abraham and Antigone: Two Conflicting Imperatives. D. New Developments in International Criminal Justice. 26. The Statute of the International Criminal Court: Some Preliminary Reflections. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): ECPT; ECHR; Geneva conventions; Hague conventions; ICCPR; ICC statute; ICESCR; UN charter |
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4. | Costa, Karen Da : Extraterritorial application of selected human rights treaties, 2013 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph Extraterritorial application of selected human rights treaties / Costa, Karen Da - (Graduate Institute of international and development studies ; vol. 11), x, 324 p.. - Leiden : Martinus Nijhoff publ., 2013. ISBN 978-90-04-22837-5 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: Table of contents:. INTRODUCTION. 1. ORIGINS OF THE CURRENT DEBATE. 2. OBJECT AND METHOD OF THE PRESENT INVESTIGATION. 3. ARE STATES BOUND BY HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES WHEN THEY OPERATE ABROAD?. A. MAIN ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING THE TERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES. B. MAIN ARGUMENTS SUPPORTING THE EXTRATERRITORIAL APPLICATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS TREATIES. CHAPTER 1: THE INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON CIVIL AND POLITICAL RIGHTS PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS ON THE INTERPRETATION OF INTERNATIONAL TREATIES:. 1. WORDING AND ORIGINS. 2. HISTORY OF THE PROCEEDINGS. A. SPATIAL SCOPE OF THE COVENANT DURING THE INITIAL PHASE (1947-1948). B. RELEVANT DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE DRAFTING PHASE (1949-1954). C. RELEVANT DEVELOPMENTS DURING THE DELIBERATION PHASE (1954-1966). CONCLUSION: EXTRATERRITORIALITY IN THE PREPARATORY WORK OF THE ICCPR 3. THE JURISDICTIONAL CLAUSE OF THE ICCPR INTERPRETED BY MONITORING BODIES PRELIMINARY CONSIDERATIONS. A. QUASI-JUDICIAL BODIES: THE POSITION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE. B. JUDICIAL BODIES: THE POSITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE. C. FURTHER INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISMS: UN SPECIAL PROCEDURES CONCLUSION. CHAPTER 2: THE SPATIAL REACH OF THE EUROPEAN CONVENTION ON HUMAN RIGHTS. INTRODUCTION. 1. WORDING AND ORIGINS OF ARTICLE 1 ECHR. 2. EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF HUMAN RIGHTS: ‘AUTHORITY AND CONTROL OVER PERSONS’. A. CASES RELATED TO DIPLOMATIC AND CONSULAR AUTHORITIES. B. CASES INVOLVING ARREST OR DETENTION OF PERSONS ABROAD. C. FURTHER EXERCISE OF PUBLIC POWERS ABROAD. D. CASES INVOLVING THE PRESENCE OF TROOPS ABROAD. CONCLUSION. 3. CASES BEFORE THE EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS. A. CASES BEFORE BANKOVIC'. B. THE BANKOVIC' CASE. C. FIRST CASES AFTER BANKOVIC'. D. LATER CASES AFTER BANKOVIC'. CHAPTER 3: THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE. 1. A DIFFERENT TREATY COVERING AN ABSOLUTE RIGHT. 2. EXTENT OF STATES PARTIES’ OBLIGATIONS. A. STATES’ MAIN OBLIGATION UNDER THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE. B. PREPARATORY WORK OF THE CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE. 3. DOUBTS RAISED ON THE GEOGRAPHICAL EXTENT OF APPLICATION OF THE CAT. A. THE POSITION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM. B. THE POSITION OF THE UNITED STATES. C. THE POSITION OF THE COMMITTEE AS REFLECTED IN ITS FURTHER PRACTICE. CONCLUSION. INDEX WORDS:
GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Austria / Belgium / Bosnia-Herzegovina / Cambodia / Canada / Costa rica / Cyprus / Denmark / France / Haiti / Iran / Iraq / Israel / Italy / Japan / Jordan / Kenya / Kuwait / Lebanon / Morocco / Netherlands / Palestine / Peru / Philippines / Poland / Romania / Russian Federation / Somalia / sweden / Switzerland / Turkey / Uganda / USA / Uruguay / USSR / Yugoslavia LOCAL GEOGRAPHICAL TERMS: Kosovo NOTE (GENERAL): UDHR; Vienna convention on the law of treaties; CAT; ECHR; ICCPR; ICESCR;
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5. | Pocar, Fausto (ed.) : War crimes and the conduct of hostilities, 2013 |
BIBLIOGRAPHIC LEVEL: monograph War crimes and the conduct of hostilities : challenges to adjudication and investigation / Pocar, Fausto (ed.) ; Pedrazzi, Marco (ed.) ; Frulli, Micaela (ed.), xxi, 383 p.. - Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar, 2013. ISBN 978-1-78195-591-8 LANGUAGE: ENG ABSTRACT: CONTENTS:. PART 1: Setting the legal framework. 1. Fausto Pocar: The criminalization of the violations of international humanitarian law from Nuremberg to the Rome Statute. 2. Paola Gaeta: Serious violations of the law on the conduct of hostilities: a neglected class of war crimes?. 3. Edoardo Greppi: To what extent do the international rules on human rights matter?. PART II: Violations of the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution. 4. Francesco Moneta: Direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks as war crimes. 5. Andrea Carcano: The criminalization and prosecution of attacks against cultural property. 6. Marco Pedrazzi: Using human shields as a war crime. PART III: Violations of the rules protecting particular categories of persons. 7. Alberto Oddenino: The enlistment, conscription and use of child soldiers as war crimes. 8. Ludovica Poli: Criminalizing rape and sexual violence as methods of warfare. 9. Andrea Spagnolo: The crime of attacking peacekeepers. PART IV: Violations of the rules of means of warfare. 10. Andrea Cannone: The use of prohibited weapons and war crimes. 11. Marina Castellaneta: New weapons, old crimes?. 12. Annita Larissa Sciacovelli: The criminalization of the use of biological and chemical weapons. 13. Antonio Leandro: Arms transfer and complicity in war crimes. PART V: The special case of terrorism in armed conflicts. 14. Giuseppe Nesi: International terrorism, the law of war and the negotiation of a UN compehensive convention. 15. Julinda Beqiraj: Terror and terrorism in armed conflicts: developments in international criminal law. 16. Marco Pertile: Fighting terror with the law? Terrorism, counterterrorism and military occupations. 17. Antonino Ali: The relevance of international humanitarian law in national case law on terrorism. PART VI: Investigations and fact finding: a(n) (im)possible mission?. 18. Stephen Wilkinson: The challenges of establishing the facts in relation to 'Hague law' violations. 19. Michaela Frulli: UN fact-finding commissions and the prosecution of war crimes: an evolution towards justice-oriented missions?. 20. Simone Vezzani: Fact-finding by international human rights institutions and criminal prosecution. INDEX WORDS:
NOTE (GENERAL): Geneva conventions; Additional protocols to the Geneva conventions; ICC statute; ICCPR; ECHR; Convention for the protection of cultural property in the event of armed conflict; Hague conventions |