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Non-combatant immunity as a norm of international humanitarian law

Analyzes in detail the content of the customary and conventional rules that give effect to the principle fundamental to the law of armed conflict: noncombatant immunity. It covers both international and non-international armed conflict.
Print Book, English, ©1993
M. Nijhoff Publishers ; Sold and distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, Boston, ©1993
xiii, 199 pages ; 25 cm
9780792322450, 0792322452
27727195
1. Introduction. 2. The Development of Noncombatant Immunity as a Customary Norm. 3. Challenges to the Norm of Noncombatant Immunity in the United Nations Era. 4. The Right of Self-Determination in International Law. 5. Wars of Self-Determination and Just War Theories. 6. Self-Determination and Protocol I. 7. Further Aspects of Protocol I which affect the Norm of Noncombatant Immunity. 8. The Codification of Noncombatant Immunity in Protocol I. 9. The Conventional Regulation of Non-International Armed Conflicts - Protocol II. 10. Noncombatant Immunity as a Customary Norm in International Armed Conflicts. 11. Noncombatant Immunity as a Customary Norm in Non-International ArmedConflicts.Conclusion.Select Bibliography.Index.
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral), University of Melbourne, 1990