This edition also incorporates new chapters covering the law of non-international armed conflicts and international peace operations.

Focusing on the controversies that impact IHL in practice, this much-anticipated book from leading expert Marco Sassòli discusses when IHL applies, its substantive rules, how to ensure its respect and whether the traditional distinction ...

This innovative book provides a thought-provoking introduction to international humanitarian law.

In this thoroughly updated second edition of what has quickly become the definitive text in the field of international humanitarian law (IHL), leading expert Marco Sassòli evaluates the application of IHL, the way in which hostilities ...

This book gives an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of international humanitarian law or the laws of war.

The third edition of this work sets out a comprehensive and analytical manual of international humanitarian law, accompanied by case analysis and extensive explanatory commentary by a team of distinguished and internationally renowned ...

The Practical Guide to Humanitarian Law explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

In the absence of ratifications of important treaties in this area, this is clearly a publication of major importance, carried out at the express request of the international community.

This incisive book observes that while states appear to be reluctant to act as agents of change, informal methods of law-making are flourishing.