Intl Humanitarian Law (LAW-620-001)
Cerone, Williamson
Meets: 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM (MTWThF) - Room 100
Enrolled: 8 / Limit: 15
Notices
5/26/15 - 6/12/15
Description
A study of international principles and rules regulating the conduct of international and other armed conflicts; the complementary nature of human rights and humanitarian law in the historical development of restraints in armed conflict; the distinction between rules governing recourse to armed coercion and those governing the conduct of armed hostilities; the protections afforded by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols to combatants and noncombatants, including civilians, POWs, the wounded and the sick; the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross; and key decisions of international bodies finding criminal responsibility for humanitarian law violations.
Textbooks and Other Materials
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First Class Readings
Not available at this time.