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"Contents" [2013] ELECD 1047; in Pocar, Fausto; Pedrazzi, Marco; Frulli, Micaela (eds), "War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013) v

Book Title: War Crimes and the Conduct of Hostilities

Editor(s): Pocar, Fausto; Pedrazzi, Marco; Frulli, Micaela

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781781955918

Section Title: Contents

Number of pages: 3

Extract:

Contents
List of contributors viii
Preface x
Table of cases xii


PART I SETTING THE LEGAL FRAMEWORK
1 The criminalization of the violations of international
humanitarian law from Nuremberg to the Rome Statute 3
Fausto Pocar
2 Serious violations of the law on the conduct of hostilities: A
neglected class of war crimes? 20
Paola Gaeta
3 To what extent do the international rules on human rights
matter? 38
Edoardo Greppi


PART II VIOLATIONS OF THE PRINCIPLES OF
DISTINCTION, PROPORTIONALITY AND PRECAUTION
4 Direct attacks on civilians and indiscriminate attacks as war
crimes 59
Francesco Moneta
5 The criminalization and prosecution of attacks against cultural
property 78
Andrea Carcano
6 Using human shields as a war crime 98
Marco Pedrazzi




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PART III VIOLATIONS OF THE RULES PROTECTING
PARTICULAR CATEGORIES OF PERSONS
7 The enlistment, conscription and use of child soldiers as war
crimes 119
Alberto Oddenino
8 Criminalizing rape and sexual violence as methods of warfare 136
Ludovica Poli
9 The crime of attacking peacekeepers 153
Andrea Spagnolo

PART IV VIOLATIONS OF THE RULES ON MEANS OF
WARFARE
10 The use of prohibited weapons and war crimes 173
Andrea Cannone
11 New weapons, old crimes? 194
Marina Castellaneta
12 The criminalization of the use of biological and chemical
weapons 211
Annita Larissa Sciacovelli
13 Arms transfer and complicity in war crimes 225
Antonio Leandro

PART V THE SPECIAL CASE OF TERRORISM IN ARMED
CONFLICTS
14 International terrorism, the law of war ...