LIESBETH ZEGVELD practises as an international and criminal lawyer. In 1998, she received a Fulbright Scholarship to do research at New York University and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in Washington, D.C. For her dissertation on armed opposition groups she received the degree 'cum laude' and The Netherlands' Human Rights Award, 2000. She is the co-author, with Frits Kalshocven, of the third edition of Constraints on the waging of war: an introduction to international humanitarian law (ICRC 2001).
Table of treaties and declarations
Table of cases
Table of other documents
List of abbreviations
Introduction
Part I. The Normative Gap: 1. Legal restraints on armed opposition groups as such
2. Substantive obligations of armed opposition groups as such
Part II. The Accountability Gap: 3. Accountability of group leaders
4. Accountability of armed opposition groups as such
5. Accountability of the state for acts of armed opposition groups
6. The quest for accountability
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
