Overview
- First systematic study on the right of conscientious objection in international human rights law
- Explores the questions of the individual duty under international law to refuse to fight in an unlawful conflict or to obey an illegal military order
- Exceptionally extensive research comprising many branches of public international law
- Significant historical component
- Critical and original thinking
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
International human rights law grants individuals both rights and responsibilities. In this respect international criminal and international humanitarian law are no different. As members of the public international law family they are charged with the regulation, maintenance and protection of human dignity. The right and duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders traverses these three schools of public international law. This book is the first systematic study of the right to conscientious objection under international human rights law. Understanding that rights and duties are not mutually exclusive but complementary, this study analyses the right to conscientious objection and the duties of individuals under international law from various perspectives of public international law.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders
Editors: Hitomi Takemura
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70527-7
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2009
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-70526-0Published: 08 December 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-08945-9Published: 15 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-70527-7Published: 14 December 2008
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 253
Topics: Human Rights, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, International Criminal Law, Political Science, Philosophy of Law