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The Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict. By Roger O’Keefe. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xix, 361. Index. $106, £55.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Ronald J. Bettauer*
Affiliation:
George Washington University Law School

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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2008

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References

1 May 14, 1954, 249 UNTS 240. The current list of the states party and text of the Convention, as well as its two Protocols (May 14,1954, and Mar, 26,1999, respectively), is available at <http://ponal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php-URL_ID=35744&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html>.

2 S. Treaty Doc. No. 106-1 (1999), available at <http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=106_cong_documents&docid=f:td001.106.pdf>. The reviewer was involved in recent U.S. efforts to obtain Senate advice and consent to ratification of this treaty in his former capacity as deputy legal adviser in the Department of State.

4 The 1907 Regulations, as well as the Roerich Pact and 1977 Protocols I and II mentioned below, are available on the treaty database of the International Committee of the Red Cross, <http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/TOPICS?OpenView>.

5 U.S. Department of State, Office of the Legal Adviser [News] Release, U.S. Initial Reactions to ICRC Study on Customary International Law (Nov. 3, 2006), at <http://www.state.gov/s/l/rls/82630.htm> (letter from John Bellinger III and William Haynes II to Jacob Kellenberger). See also the article based on this letter, at 89 Int'l Rev. Red Cross 443 (2007), and the response by Jean-Marie Henckaerts, id. at 473, both of which are available at the ICRC Web site, <http://www.icrc.org>.

6 S. Treaty Doc. No. 100-2, at 6-7 (1987).

7 S. Treaty Doc. No. 106-1, supra note 2, at ix, 7.

8 Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, 1996 ICJ Rep. 226 (July 8).

9 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2004 ICJ Rep. 136 (July 9).