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Rain Liivoja explores why, and to what extent, armed forces personnel who commit offences abroad are prosecuted under their own country's laws. After clarifying several conceptual uncertainties in the doctrine of jurisdiction and immunities, he applies the doctrine to the extraterritorial deployment of service personnel. Comparing the law and practice of different states, the author shows the sheer breadth of criminal jurisdiction that countries claim over their service personnel. He argues that such claims disclose a discrete category of jurisdiction, with its own scope and rationale, which can be justified as a matter of international law. By distinguishing service jurisdiction as a distinct category, the analysis explains some of the peculiarities of military criminal law and also provides a basis for extending national criminal law to private military contractors serving the state. This book is essential for scholars and practitioners in international and criminal law, especially in military contexts.

Armed Forces in foreign countries. --- Criminal jurisdiction. --- Conflict of criminal jurisdiction --- Conflict of laws --- Criminal law --- Criminal procedure --- Exterritorial crime --- Jurisdiction --- International criminal law

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The law of armed conflict is a key element of the global legal order yet it is recognised that this branch of law is often honoured more in the breach than in the observance. This handbook provides a unique perspective on the field covering all the key aspects of the law as well as identifying developing and often contentious areas of interest driven by the changes in the nature of warfare.

War (International law) --- Krigets lagar --- Folkrätt --- Humanitär rätt --- Intervention (folkrätt) --- Krig --- War --- Humanitarian law --- Intervention (International law) --- Krigets lagar. --- Folkrätt. --- Humanitär rätt. --- Intervention (folkrätt). --- Krig. --- War (International law). --- War. --- Humanitarian law. --- Intervention (International law).