Weapons and the law of armed conflict / William H. Boothby.
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016Edition: Second editionDescription: xxxvii, 422 pagesContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198728504Subject(s): Military weapons -- Law and legislation![](/opac-tmpl/bootstrap/images/filefind.png)
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Item type | Current library | Class number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 341.63 BOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 013664 |
Introduction -- 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 -- Mines, booby-traps, and other devices -- Rules relating to other specific technologies -- Nuclear weapons -- Applying weapons law to particular weapon systems -- Cluster munitions -- Maritime and outer space weapons -- Unexploded and abandoned weapons -- Non-international armed conflict -- Compliance with international weapons law -- Technology, humanitarian concern, and the future.