Internationell humanitär rätt

När juristen Philippe Sands får en inbjudan att föreläsa i Lviv i Ukraina öppnas en okänd dörr till hans familjs historia. Med utgångspunkt i morfaderns flykt undan nazisterna inleds en andlös resa som tar läsaren från det forna Lemberg till rätte...

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In 1946, the judges at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg declared 'crimes against peace' - the planning, initiation or waging of aggressive wars - to be 'the supreme international crime'. At the time, the prosecuting powers heralded...

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This book traces the evolution of crimes against humanity (CAH) and their application from the end of World War I to the present day, in terms of both historic legal analysis and subject-matter content. The first part of the book addresses general...

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The law that regulates armed conflicts is one of the oldest branches of international law, and yet continues to be one of the most dynamic areas of law today. This book provides an accessible, scholarly, and up-to-date examination of international...

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Are nuclear weapons legal or illegal under international law? This book aims to put in your hands information about all the main legal arguments you are likely to encounter. This question has been addressed by several quasi-legal independent tribu...

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This Handbook draws together leading and emerging scholars to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of international refugee law. This book provides an account as well as a critique of the status quo, setting the agenda for future research in ...

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The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice is the first major reference work to provide a complete overview of international criminal law. It offers a comprehensive survey of the issues surrounding international humanitarian law and hu...

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National Human Rights Institutions: Rules, Requirements, and Practice is an authoritative guide to National Human Rights Institutions (NHRI) in their important role as promoters and protectors of human rights at the national level.

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This book covers the developing field of open source research and discusses how to use social media, satellite imagery, big data analytics, and user-generated content to strengthen human rights research and investigations. The topics are presented...

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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the broad spectrum of human rights issues and violations as they are experienced by women and sexual minorities across civil, political, social, economic, and/or cultural domains, in different reg...

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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 Sassli evaluates the application of IHL, the way in which hostilities should be con...

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It is now widely accepted that international human rights law applies in situations of armed conflict alongside international humanitarian law, but the contours and consequences of this development remain unclear. This book revisits, organizes and...

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Rogue States is a collection of essays written by Chomsky in the late 1990s, all of which subvert the United States foreign policy discourse and the notion of the rogue state, turning the focus of criticism inwards and demonstrating how Western po...

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In August 1945 Great Britain, France, the USSR, and the United States established a tribunal at Nuremberg to try military and civilian leaders of the Nazi regime. G. M. Gilbert, the prison psychologist, had an unrivaled firsthand opportunity to wa...

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Questioning the idea that the growth of the international human rights regime is limitless, this book examines the functional, systemic, and ideological boundaries of human rights law from a multidisciplinary perspective.

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This volume of essays examines key cutting-edge areas of international refugee law, including strategies for interpretative harmony, the rights of refugees and the standard of proof in complementary protection. Each topic is examined from a theore...

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This volume explores the various challenges faced by migrant unaccompanied children, using a clinical sociological approach and a global perspective. It applies a human rights and comparative framework to examine the reception of unaccompanied chi...

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The extent to which international human rights law continues to apply in situations of armed conflict or national emergency is often unclear. This book sets out how human rights law applies in situations of violence or upheaval, systematically cov...

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The Nuremberg Interviews reveals the chilling innermost thoughts of the former Nazi officials under indictment at the famous postwar trial. The architects of one of history's greatest atrocities speak out about their lives, their careers in t...

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The Right of Conquest examines the ancient principle of international law that a state emerging victorious in war is entitled to claim sovereignty over conquered territory. In an important and wide-ranging study, Korman discusses the role of the r...

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This addition to the Elements of International Law series provides an introduction to the framework and dilemmas of the international law of occupation.

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Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Winner of the Moore Prize for Human Rights Writing** A devastating account of Chinas genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist ...

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A devastating personal account of China's oppression of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur activist and Time #100 nominee

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?Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it? Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy**Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature**A devastating account of China?s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur...

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?Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it? Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy**Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature**A devastating account of China?s genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur...

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Anyone interested in the future of autocracy should buy it Anne Applebaum, author of Twilight of Demoracy **Shortlisted for the Moore Prize for Human Rights Literature** A devastating account of Chinas genocide of the Uyghurs, by a leading Uyghur ...

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Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the beginning of the Nuremberg trials, and drawing upon hitherto unseen first-hand accounts and prison documents, a re-creation of the trials, providing character portraits of the 21 Nazi leaders ...

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Focused on the international community's response to the conflict in Syria, this is a book about the inexorable quest for justice, even in the face of seemingly impenetrable obstacles erected by actors intent on ensuring impunity. It features a nu...

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This book situates the war in Syria within the actual and imagined system of international criminal justice. It explores the legal impediments and diplomatic challenges that have led to the fatal trinity affecting Syria: the massive commission of ...

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This book situates the war in Syria within the actual and imagined system of international criminal justice. It explores the legal impediments and diplomatic challenges that have led to the fatal trinity affecting Syria: the massive commission of ...

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