Kenneth Watkin

Broschiertes Buch

Fighting at the Legal Boundaries

Controlling the Use of Force in Contemporary Conflict

Beschreibung

Fighting at the Legal Boundaries offers a holistic approach towards the application of the various constitutive parts of international law. The author focuses on the interaction between the applicable bodies of law by exploring whether their boundaries are improperly drawn, or are being interpreted in too rigid a fashion. Emphasis is placed on the disconnect that can occur between theory and practice regarding how these legal regimes are applied and interactwith one another. Through a number of case studies, Fighting at the Legal Boundaries explores how the threat posed by insurgents, terrorists, and transnational criminal gangs often occurs not only at the point where these bodies of law interact, but also in situations where there is significant overlap. Inthis regard, the exercise of the longstanding right of States to defend nationals, including the conduct of operations such as hostage rescue, can involve the application of human rights based law enforcement norms to counter threats transcending the conflict spectrum.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 728
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 1086g
• ISBN-13: 9780190942052
• ISBN-10: 0190942053
• Artikelnr.: 56788583