
ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0198728506
- ISBN 13: 9780198728504
Overview
The evolution of the law of weaponry -- Components of the international law of weaponry -- The use of weapons and the law of targeting -- Customary principles-superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering -- Customary principles-indiscriminate weapons -- Weapons and the environment -- Conventional Weapons Convention -- Poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating gases, biological and chemical weapons -- Firearms, bullets, and analogous projectiles -- The rules relating to mines, booby-traps, and other devices -- Rules relating to other specific technologies -- Nuclear weapons -- Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems -- Cluster munitions -- Weapons in sea warfare -- Unexploded and abandoned weapons -- Non-international armed conflict -- Compliance with international weapons law -- Technology, humanitarian concern, and international weapons law -- The future of weapons lawOther Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press,
- Language: Eng English
- Format: print
- Edition: 2
- Dimensions: xxxvii, 422 pages ; 24 cm
- Date Published: 2016
- Authors: Boothby, William H. (author.)