INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW. Ed by Orna Ben-Naftali Oxford: Oxford University Press (www.oup.com), The Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law vol XIX/1, 2011. xxxv + 388 pp. ISBN 9780191001604. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011. £60.
| Author | Nicholas Tsagourias |
| DOI | 10.3366/elr.2012.0097 |
| Published date | 01 January 2012 |
| Date | 01 January 2012 |
| Pages | 140-141 |
The question of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) and human rights law apply concurrently in situations of armed conflict has been the subject of many heated debates. At present, the prevalent view is that IHL and human rights law apply conjointly but this view gives rise to a host of more specific questions whose practical significance is enormous. The book under review explores these issues from different perspectives and, even if it does not provide an answer to each and every question that it asks, it provides direction and perspective.
The three first chapters explore the normative as well as practical problems relating to the conjoined application of human rights and IHL in the context of “new” paradigms such as the “war on terror”, UN peacekeeping operations, failed states or...
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