Thursday, March 19, 2009

New Volume: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Vol. 10, 2007) is out. Contents include:
  • Ove Bring, Humanitarian law and literature: from Utopia to slaughterhouse-five
  • Marco Sassoli, The implementation of international humanitarian law: current and inherent challenges
  • I.J. MacLeod & A.P.V. Rogers, The use of white phosphorus and the law of war
  • Marten Zwanenburg, The return of the law of occupation
  • Current Developments
    • Amna Guellai & Enrique Carnero Rojo, International criminal courts round up
    • Sarah Finnin, Update on United States military commission
    • Gabor Rona, An appraisal of US practice relating to ‘enemy combatants’
    • John Borrie, The ‘long year’: emerging international efforts to address the humanitarian impacts of cluster munitions, 2006–2007