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Fighting at the Legal Boundaries
Kenneth Watkin
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Description for Fighting at the Legal Boundaries
Hardback. Num Pages: 728 pages. BIC Classification: JPS; LBBR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1166.
The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense and conduct of inter-state conflict finds itself confronted with violent 21st Century disputes of a very different character. Military practitioners who seek to stay within the bounds of international law often find themselves applying bodies of law-IHRL, IHL, ICL-in an exclusionary fashion, and adherence to those boundaries can lead to a formal and often rigid application of the law that does not adequately address contemporary security challenges. Fighting at the Legal Boundaries offers a holistic ... Read more
The international law governing armed conflict is at a crossroads, as the formal framework of laws designed to control the exercise of self-defense and conduct of inter-state conflict finds itself confronted with violent 21st Century disputes of a very different character. Military practitioners who seek to stay within the bounds of international law often find themselves applying bodies of law-IHRL, IHL, ICL-in an exclusionary fashion, and adherence to those boundaries can lead to a formal and often rigid application of the law that does not adequately address contemporary security challenges. Fighting at the Legal Boundaries offers a holistic ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
728
Condition
New
Number of Pages
728
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780190457976
SKU
V9780190457976
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About Kenneth Watkin
Brigadier General (Retired) Kenneth Watkin was a career military legal adviser to the Canadian Forces, who has served in a number of operational, military justice, and general legal advisory positions, most recently as Judge Advocate General for the Canadian Forces. He is widely respected as a scholar of IHL and national security law, with dozens of articles in the field. ... Read more
Reviews for Fighting at the Legal Boundaries
Watkin's book can be seen both as a work of operational law and a major scholarly treatment of the law governing the use of force. It provides detailed accounts of how situations arise on the ground that evade easy classification in terms of our existing conceptual and legal categories. These will provide vivid instruction for those not familiar with the ... Read more