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War
This book provides an accessible and engaging account of the contemporary laws of war. It highlights how, even though war has been outlawed and should be finished as an institution, states continue to claim that they can wage necessary wars of self-defence, engage in lawful killings in war, and imprison law-of-war detainees.
| Author(s) | By Andrew Clapham (Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 624 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 29 Jul 2021 |
| Availability | Available |
This book provides an accessible and engaging account of the contemporary laws of war. It highlights how, even though war has been outlawed and should be finished as an institution, states continue to claim that they can wage necessary wars of self-defence, engage in lawful killings in war, and imprison law-of-war detainees.
Andrew Clapham is Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, which he joined in 1997. He has been a member of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan since October 2017. He is an H
