The Treatment of Combatants and Insurgents Under the Law of Armed Conflict
- ISBN-10
- 0199578966
- ISBN-13
- 9780199578962
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-01-14
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Emily Crawford
Description
On the recent US treatment of detainees in Guantanamo Bay in the "War on Terror", this book draws on considerable legal precedent, legal theory, and policy arguments to make the case that it is time for the law relating to the regulation of armed conflicts to be more uniformly applied. Readership: Scholars of international humanitarian law, international human rights law, and international criminal law; post-graduate students; practitioners in these areas.
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