Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law [Paperback]

A commentary on Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge, 2005).This book discusses the study of Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge, 2005) and analyses the law relating to such matters as targeting, prisoners of war, weapons, war crimes and the protection of the environment during conflicts.This book discusses the study of Customary International Humanitarian Law (Cambridge, 2005) and analyses the law relating to such matters as targeting, prisoners of war, weapons, war crimes and the protection of the environment during conflicts.The International Committee of the Red Cross's study of Customary International Humanitarian Law by Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck (Cambridge, 2005) contains a unique collection of evidence of the practice of States and non-State actors in the field of international humanitarian law, together with the authors' assessment of that practice and their compilation of rules of customary law based on that assessment. The study invites comment on its compilation of rules. Perspectives on the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law results from a year-long examination of the study by a group of military lawyers, academics and practitioners, all with experience in international humanitarian law. The book discusses the study, its methodology and its rules and provides a critical analysis of them. It adds its own contribution to scholarship on the interpretation and application of international humanitarian law.Part I. Setting the Scene - Theoretical Perspectives on International Law in the ICRC Study: 1. The methodological framework of the study Daniel Bethlehem; 2. The approach to customary international law in the study Iain Scobbie; 3. Other areas of customary law in relation to the study Fran?oise Hampson; Part II. Status of Conflict and Combatants - The ICRC Study: 4. Status of conflict Jelena Pejic; 5. Combatant status Anthony Rogers; Part III. Commentary on Selected Rules from the ICRC lC†