In three distinct volumes the editors bring together a distinguished group of contributors whose essays chart the history, practice, and future of international humanitarian law. At a time when the war crimes of recent decades are being examined in the International Criminal Tribunals for Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda and a new International Criminal Court is being created as a permanent venue to try such crimes, the role of international humanitarian law is seminal to the functioning of such attempts to establish a just world order.
The intent of these volumes is to help to inform where humanitarian law had its origins, how it has been shaped by world events, and why it can be employed to serve the future. The other volumes in this set are International Humanitarian Law: Origins and International Humanitarian Law: Challenges
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John Carey has been the editor of the United Nations Law Reports for 35 years.
William V. Dunlap is Professor of law at the Quinnipiac University School of Law.
R. John Pritchard is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Association and Member of the Middle Temple. He is Director of the Robert M.W. Kempner Collegium.
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I hope the third volume of the set (International Humanitarian Law: Prospects)... will be as intellectually engaging as the first two volumes. I highly recommend that all libraries with a focus on international humanitarian law, and more broadly on international law, purchase the set.”
Louise Tsang, Georgetown University Law Center,
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Contributors; Introduction to Volume III—Prospects; Foreword;
Chapter 1: The Relevance of Humanitarian Law to Terrorism and Terrorists, L.C. Green;
Chapter 2: A Plea of Humanity to Law: The Need for an Effective International Criminal Court, Benjamin B. Ferencz;
Chapter 3: The Creation of the International Criminal Court and State Sovereignty: The “Problem of an International Criminal Law” Re-Examined, Frédéric Mégret;
Chapter 4: Two Cheers for the International Criminal Court, Wade Mansell;
Chapter 5: Crimes Within the Limited Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, Jordan J. Paust;
Chapter 6: Designing Justice for Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge, Craig Etcheson;
Chapter 7: NATO’s Attack on Yugoslavia: The Deputation of an Ad Hoc International Constabulary, Paul D. Rutkus;
Chapter 8: Adapting Traditional Humanitarian Law to Sanctions, Paul Conlon;
Chapter 9: The Development of a Victim-Centered Approach to International Criminal Justice for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law, Avril McDonald;
Chapter 10: The Parameters of Justice: The Evolution of British Civil and Military Perspectives on War Crimes Trials and Their Legal Context (1942–1956), R. John Pritchard; Consolidated Index to Volumes I, II, and III.