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Theodor Meron's collection of essays on war crimes and related topics examines the impact that international law has had on a range of crimes, from the time of Shakespeare through to modern times and the conflict in the former Yugoslavia.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Meron, Theodor, 1930-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : Clarendon, 1998.
Subjects:
War crimes.
War Crimes
Crimes de guerre.
War crimes
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • I. Medieval and Renaissance Ordinances of War: Codifying Discipline and Humanity
  • II. Shakespeare's Henry the Fifth and the Law of War
  • III. Crimes and Accountability in Shakespeare
  • IV. Common Rights of Mankind in Gentili, Grotius and Suarez
  • V. Francis Lieber's Code and Principles of Humanity
  • VI. Deportation of Civilians as a War Crime under Customary Law
  • VII. Geneva Conventions as Customary Law
  • VIII. The Time has Come for the United States to Ratify Geneva Protocol I
  • IX. The Case for War Crimes Trials in Yugoslavia
  • X. From Nuremberg to The Hague
  • XI. Rape as a Crime under International Humanitarian Law
  • XII. The Normative Impact on International Law of the International Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia
  • XIII. International Criminalization of Internal Atrocities
  • XIV. The Continuing Role of Custom in the Formation of International Humanitarian Law
  • XV. Answering for War Crimes: Lessons from the Balkans
  • XVI. Classification of Armed Conflict in the former Yugoslavia: Nicaragua's Fallout
  • XVII. War Crimes Law Comes of Age
  • Annex. Crimes in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.