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Als mensenrechtenadvocaat Philippe Sands wordt uitgenodigd om een college te geven in de West-Oekraïense stad Lviv, ontdekt hij een reeks buitengewone historische toevalligheden. Dit is het begin van een speurtocht die hem de halve wereld over zal voeren op zoek naar de oorsprong van het internationaal recht en zijn eigen geheime familiegeschiedenis, beginnend en eindigend met de laatste dag van de Neurenbergprocessen. Drie mannen vormden de leidraad voor Sands’ zoektocht: mensenrechtenadvocaten Raphael Lemkin en Hersch Lauterpacht, de grondleggers van de begrippen ‘genocide’ en ‘misdaden tegen de menselijkheid’, en Hans Frank, Hitlers advocaat en leider van de nazibezetting in Polen. Het resultaat is een indrukwekkend boek dat laat zien hoe de wereld na de Tweede Wereldoorlog op juridisch gebied worstelde met iets overweldigends als massamoord.

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The high civilian death toll in modern, protracted conflicts such as those in Syria or Iraq indicate the limits of international law in offering protections to civilians at risk. A recent conference of states convened by the International Committee of the Red Cross referred to 'an institutional vacuum in the area of international humanitarian law implementation'. Yet both international humanitarian law and the law of human rights establish a series of rights intended to protect civilians. But which law or laws apply in a particular situation, and what are the obstacles to their implementation? How can the law offer greater protections to civilians caught up in new methods of warfare, such as drone strikes, or targeted by new forms of military organisation, such as transnational armed groups? Can the implementation gap be filled by the growing use of human rights courts to remedy violations of the laws of armed conflict, or are new instruments or mechanisms of civilian legal protection needed? This volume brings together contributions from leading academic authorities and legal practitioners on the situation of civilians in the grey zone between human rights and the laws of war. The chapters in Part 1 address key contested or boundary issues in defining the rights of civilians or non-combatants in today's conflicts. Those in Part 2 examine remedies and current mechanisms for redress both at the international and national level, and those in Part 3 assess prospects for the development of new mechanisms for addressing violations. As military intervention to protect civilians remains contested, this volume looks at the potential for developing alternative approaches to the protection of civilians and their rights

Civilian war casualties. --- Civilians in war. --- Combatants and noncombatants (International law) --- Humanitarian law. --- War (International law) --- War victims --- War --- Civil rights. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Protection of civilians.