Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law - 2005: Volume 8

ISBN-13: 9789067042444 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 669 str.

Dr A. McDonald

Opis

3 The 1977 Protocol I Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 instituted the following obligation for States Parties: Article 36. New weapons In the study, development, acquisition or adoption of a new weapon, means or method of warfare, a High Contracting Party is under an obligation to determine whether its employment would, in some or all circumstances, be prohibited by this Protocol or by 4 any other rule of international law applicable to the High Contracting Party. The obligation to ensure the legality of weapons of war was not new. Article 1 of Hague Convention II with Respect to the Laws and Customs of War on Land of 29 July 1899 obligated States Parties to issue instructions to their armed land forces, which were to conform to the rules contained in the Annex to that Convention. This included Article 23(e), which prohibited employment of arms, projectiles or material of a nature to cause superfluous injury . With non-substantive alteration, Article 1 of the Convention and Article 23(e) of the Annex were re-adopted in Hague Convention IV Respecting the Laws and Customs of War on Land of 18 5 October 1907. Under the international law maxim pacta sunt servanda states have a general duty to engage in good faith performance of their treaty obligations. This would have included a duty to ensure military weapons and munitions complied 6 with Hague Convention IV and obligations contained in other treaties."

Spis treści

Articles.- Assessing Proportionality: Moral Complexity and Legal Rules.- Conventional Weapons and Weapons Reviews.- Customary International Humanitarian Law: Some Reflections on the ICRC Study.- The International Law of Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.- Current Developments.- The Year in Review.- International Criminal Courts Round-Up.- Crystallising an Emblem: On the Adoption of the Third Additional Protocol to the Geneva Conventions.- The Darfur Referral of the Security Council and the Scope of the Jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court.- Israel and the Fourth Geneva Convention: On the ICJ Advisory Opinion Concerning the Separation Barrier.- The Israeli Disengagement from the Gaza Strip: An End of the Occupation?.- Faraway, So Close: The Legal Status of Gaza After Israel’s Disengagement.- Correspondents’ Reports.- Correspondents’ Reports.

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The world's only annual publication devoted to the study of the laws of armed conflict, the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law provides a truly international forum for high-quality, peer-reviewed academic articles focusing on this highly topical branch of international law. The Yearbook also includes a selection of documents from the reporting period, many of which are not accessible elsewhere, and a comprehensive bibliography of all recent publications in humanitarian law and other relevant fields. Ease of use of the Yearbook is guaranteed by the inclusion of a detailed index.

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