Conflict Law The Influence of New Weapons Technology, Human Rights and Emerging Actors /

• Main Author: Boothby, William H. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2014.
• Subjects: Law.; International relations.; Public international law.; Human rights.; International humanitarian law.; International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict.; Human Rights.; Public International Law.; International Relations.

In this, the second decade of the 21st Century, the law relating to conflict is confronted by a number of challenges this book seeks to identify and to discuss. Topics as diverse as the evolving spectrum of conflict, innovations in weaponry, automated and autonomous attack, the depersonalisation of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Changing Legal Spectrum of Conflict
• International manuals and international law
• Interacting technologies and legal challenge
• Weapons law and future conflict
• Legal implications of emerging approaches to war
• People and the Legal Spectrum of Conflict
• Detention operations: Legal safeguards for internees
• The law of armed conflict and human rights law
• Making sense of the human rights law/law of armed conflict conundrum - a practical proposal
• War in the spotlight
• Bringing the strands together.