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Weapons and the law of armed conflict
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- Creator
- William H. Boothby
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009
- Physical Details
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- xlviii, 412 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 0199569940, 9780199569946
- OCLC
- ocn310154671
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [389]-403) and index.
- The evolution of the law of weaponry -- Components of the international law of weaponry -- The use of weapons and the law of targeting -- Customary principles-superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering -- Customary principles-indiscriminate weapons -- Weapons and the environment -- Conventional Weapons Convention -- Poison, poisoned weapons, asphyxiating gases, biological and chemical weapons -- Firearms, bullets, and analogous projectiles -- The rules relating to mines, booby-traps, and other devices -- Rules relating to other specific technologies -- Nuclear weapons -- Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems -- Cluster munitions -- Weapons in sea warfare -- Unexploded and abandoned weapons -- Non-international armed conflict -- Compliance with international weapons law -- Technology, humanitarian concern, and international weapons law -- The future of weapons law