Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties and other instruments
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Setting the scene: Theoretical perspectives on international law in the ICRC Study
- Part 2 The status of conflict and combatants: The ICRC Study
- Part 3 Commentary on selected Rules from the ICRC Study
- Part 4 Conclusions
- Index
Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of contributors
- Table of cases
- Table of treaties and other instruments
- Abbreviations
- Part 1 Setting the scene: Theoretical perspectives on international law in the ICRC Study
- Part 2 The status of conflict and combatants: The ICRC Study
- Part 3 Commentary on selected Rules from the ICRC Study
- Part 4 Conclusions
- Index
Summary
The three volumes of Customary International Humanitarian Law by Jean-Marie Henckaerts and Louise Doswald-Beck (the Study) constitute a monumental work which has given rise to a huge amount of interest and discussion throughout the world. As is said in chapter§1 of the present book, all those associated with the preparation of the Study are to be congratulated: in focusing on the actual practice of States they have brought us closer to the heart of international humanitarian law. It is the unanimous view of the authors of this book that the Study represents a valuable work of great service to international humanitarian law. This book is intended as a complement to the Study – and as a compliment to it.
The book emerged from meetings of a group assembled to discuss the Study at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law during 2005/2006. Following a conference at Chatham House to launch the Study in the United Kingdom in April 2005, it was decided that further discussion and analysis would be valuable and would also be in keeping with the spirit expressed by Yves Sandoz in his Foreword to the Study:
[T]his study will have achieved its goal only if it is considered not as the end of a process but as a beginning. It reveals what has been accomplished but also what remains unclear and what remains to be done …[T]he study makes no claim to be the final word.
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