Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict

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Sandesh Sivakumaran (, Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law) Captain Christian R. Burne (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)

Making and Shaping the Law of Armed Conflict

Sandesh Sivakumaran (, Professor of International Law, University of Cambridge, and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law), Captain Christian R. Burne (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)

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Oxford University Press Inc
24 July 2024

Series: The Lieber Studies Series

How laws are created, shaped, and applied is a significant but often overlooked component of studies on armed conflict. Almost every contentious legal question involves aspects of law-making and shaping, be it the determination of a rule's scope of application, whether and how to regulate a

Volume editor: Sandesh Sivakumaran ( Professor of International Law University of Cambridge and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law), Captain Christian R. Burne (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, United States Military Academy, West Point, New York)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 164mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 699g
ISBN: 9780197775134
ISBN 10: 0197775136
Series: The Lieber Studies Series
Pages: 408
Publication Date: 24 July 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

PART ONE: Introduction 1. Making and Shaping: An Overview Sandesh Sivakumaran and Christian R. Burne PART TWO: Foundational Materials 2. Where Vienna and Geneva Meet: Treaty Interpretation and the Geneva Conventions Jean-Marie Henckaerts 3. Customary International Law: A Transformative Force in the Landscape of IHL Katharine Fortin 4. Principles of International Humanitarian Law: A New Framework Jeroen van den Boogaard 5. Soft Law: What is it Good For? Michael W. Meier PART THREE: Actors and Influences 6. Expert Manuals: An Insider's Account Michael N. Schmitt 7. The Development of International Humanitarian Law by the International Committee of the Red Cross Sandesh Sivakumaran 8. Applying the Law of Armed Conflict in Domestic Courts: The Fusion of Domestic and International Law and the Question of IHL Expertise Yahli Shereshevsky 9. The Development of the Law of Armed Conflict by International Criminal Tribunals Martha M. Bradley 10. The Role of Human Rights Mechanisms in Shaping International Humanitarian Law Alessandra Spadaro 11. Applying and Interpreting the Law of Armed Conflict: Contributions by the United Nations Commissions on the Syrian Arab Republic and the Republic of South Sudan Yousuf Syed Khan 12. Non-State Armed Groups, Law-Making, and the Shaping of International Law in Armed Conflict Ezequiel Heffes PART FOUR: Spaces 13. The Role of Regionalism in the Making and Shaping of the Law of Armed Conflict Gus Waschefort 14. Between War and the Text: The Pedagogical Life of International Humanitarian Law Rebecca Sutton PART FIVE: Unmaking 15. A Prologue to Law of War Unmaking Sean Watts

Sandesh Sivakumaran is Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, and Fellow of St Edmund's College, Cambridge. He was the 2022 Lieber Scholar at the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare, United States Military Academy (West Point). He is the author of numerous works, including The Law of Non-International Armed Conflict/R (2012). Captain Christian R. Burne is a United States Army Judge Advocate and an Assistant Professor of Law in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. Previously, he served as a Trial Counsel and Operational Law Attorney with XVIII Airborne Corps at Fort Bragg (now Fort Liberty), North Carolina. He earned a B.S. from the University of Scranton and a J.D. from the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law.