Foreward: these are men too gentle to live among wolves Gary Edles; 1. Hilaire McCoubrey and international conflict and security law Nigel White; 2. The development of operational law within Army Legal Services Gordon Risius; 3. Reflections on the relationship between the duty to educate in humanitarian law and the absence of a defence of mistake of law in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Neil Boister; 4. Superior orders and the International Criminal Court Robert Cryer; 5. Command responsibility: victors' justice or just desserts? Colonel C. H. B. Garraway; 6. The proposed new neutral protective emblem: a long term solution to a long standing problem Michael Meyer; 7. Towards the unification of international humanitarian law? Lindsay Moir; 8. Of vanishing points and paradoxes: terrorism and international humanitarian law Richard Barnes; 9. What is a legitimate military target? A. P. V. Rogers; 10. The application of the European Convention on Human Rights during an international armed conflict Peter Rowe; 11. Regional organizations and the promotion and protection of democracy as a contribution to international peace and security Richard Burchill; 12. Self-defence, Security Council authority and Iraq Nigel D. White; 13. International law and the suppression of maritime violence Scott Davidson; 14. Law, power and force in an unbalanced world Justin Morris; Bibliography of Hilaire McCoubrey's work.