A socio-legal history of the laws of war : constraining carnage

• Main Author: Mullins, Christopher W., (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Bingley, U.K. : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2023]
• Series: Emerald advances in historical criminology
• Subjects: War (International law); War (International law) > History.; War (International law) > Social aspects.; Social Science > Criminology.; Other warfare & defence issues.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781787698598
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (268 pages).

Since the Second World War, international laws governing the conduct of war and the behaviour of soldiers on the field of battle have been of strong academic and legal interest. Yet while they have seen their strongest articulation and enforcement in the contemporary era, rules governing such conduc...