The treatment of combatants under the law of armed conflict emily crawford isbn 9780199578962 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. The treatment of combatants under the law of armed conflict emily crawford offers an innovative thesis on a controversial area of law comprehensive and analytical examination of the distinction between the treatment of combatants under international and internal armed conflict systematic lay out and extensive referencing make the work easy to navigate. Focusing specifically on the issue of combatants and pows in armed conflicts and drawing on the recent us treatment of detainees in guantanamo bay in the war on terror this book draws on considerable legal precedent legal theory and policy arguments to make the case that it is time for the law relating to the regulation of armed conflicts to be more uniformly applied. This book argues that ihl a law which has as one of its primary aims the protection of the person in times of armed conflict should not distinguish between types of armed conflict specifically in how the law treats the vulnerable in times of armed conflict those hors de combat due to illness and injury and those deprived of their liberty through capture or surrender