Weapons and the law of armed conflict / William H. Boothby.
| Author/creator | Boothby, William H. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Edition | Second edition. |
| Publication Info | Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016. |
| Description | xxxvii, 422 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-407) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015960854 |
| ISBN | 9780198728504 (hbk.) |