Fighting at the Legal Boundaries: Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict

ISBN-13: 9780190942052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 728 str.

Kenneth Watkin

Recenzje

Ken Watkin has combined the pragmatism and realism that marked out his successful career as a military lawyer, a compendious knowledge and understanding of contemporary security threats and operations and impressive scholarship to produce a comprehensive, insightful and compelling assessment of the legal challenges that currently confront those charged in this century with maintaining national and international security. This is a highly authoritative monumental treatise that combines wisdom, law, operational experience and common sense, and which is deserving of a wide readership. By taking the discussion beyond the confines of the law and embracing wider operational, policy and doctrinal issues, the book should appeal to a broad audience. . . indeed to anyone with an interest in getting to the bottom of what is driving current security concerns and operations." - William Boothby, International and Comparative Law Quarterly

O autorze

Brigadier General (Retired) Kenneth Watkin was a career military legal adviser to the Canadian Forces, who has served in a number of operational, military justice, and general legal advisory positions, most recently as Judge Advocate General for the Canadian Forces. He is widely respected as a scholar of IHL and national security law, with dozens of articles in the field. He won the 2008 Lieber Society Military Prize for his AJIL article, Assessing Proportionality: Moral Complexity and Legal Rules, and served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College from 2011-2012.