Human rights and humanitarian norms as customary law /
Clarifies the status of international human rights and humanitarian norms in public international law, and examines the sources, evidence, and process of the creation of such rights.
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| Language: | English |
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Oxford : Oxford ; New York :
Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press,
1989.
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Humanitarian Instruments as Customary Law. I. The importance of a norm's customary character
- II. Reservations to humanitarian and human rights instruments and customary law
- III. The Nicaragua judgment
- IV. The antecedents to Nicaragua
- V. Geneva Conventions: assessing practice, opinio juris, and violations
- VI. Additional Protocols of 1977. Part II: Human Rights Instruments and Customary Law. I. The quest for universality
- II. The International Court of Justice and customary human rights
- III. Customary human rights in selected national courts. Part III: Responsibility of States for Violations of Human Rights and Humanitarian Norms. I. Mapping recourse options
- II. Acts of State, imputability, private acts
- III. Exhaustion of local remedies
- IV. Obligations of means and obligations of result
- V. Obligations erga omnes
- VI. Judicial remedies: is damage a condition for State responsibility?
- VII. Violations as international crimes and international delicts
- VIII. State of necessity and derogations
- IX. Responsibility for violations of international humanitarian law: special problems
- X. The relationship between remedies in human rights treaties and other remedies
- XI. Countermeasures, non-judicial remedies.