Search results for ""Author Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne""
Oxford University Press Detention in NonInternational Armed Conflict Oxford Monographs in International Humanitarian Criminal Law
International law has long differentiated between international and non-international armed conflicts, traditionally regulating the former far more comprehensively than the latter. This is particularly stark in the case of detention, where the law of non-international armed conflict contains no rules on who may be detained, what processes must be provided to review their detention, and when they must be released. Given that non-international armed conflicts are now the most common form of conflict, this is especially worrying, and the consequences of this have been seen in the detention practices of states such as the US and UK in Iraq and Afghanistan. This book provides a comprehensive examination of the procedural rules that apply to detention in non-international armed conflict, with the focus on preventive security detention, or ''internment''. All relevant areas of international law, most notably international humanitarian law and international human rights law, are analysed in de
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