When a soldier in the field of battle is under attack in a small village and comes upon a villager who could be a combatant or a civilian, what rules govern how that soldier should act? If the soldier detains the villager and determines that the villager is an unaffiliated combatant, what do the rules of detention require? In The War on Terror and the Laws of War, six legal scholars with experience as military officers bring practical wisdom to the contentious topic of applying international law to the battlefield. The authors apply their unique expertise to issues that have gained greater urgency during the United States' wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: including categorizing targets and properly detaining combatants. The modern battlefield has proven to be a difficult arena in which to apply traditional legal rules. The War on Terror and the Laws of War brings clarity to the subject with an insider's perspective.

The War on Terror and the Laws of War: A Military Perspective (Terrorism and Global Justice Series)

Jackson, Richard

Corn, Geoffrey

JENSEN, ERIC

Hansen, Victor

Schoettler, James

LEWIS, Michael

Foreign & International Law

Oxford University Press

The Law in War: A Concise Overview

This book provides a comprehensive yet concise overview of key issues related to the regulation of armed hostilities between States, and between States and non-State groups. Coverage begins with an explanation of the conditions that result in the applicability of international humanitarian law, and then subsequently addresses how the law influences a broad range of operational, humanitarian, and accountability issues that arise during military operations. Each chapter provides a clear and comprehensive explanation of humanitarian law, focusing especially on how it impacts operations. The chapters also highlight both contemporary controversies in the field and potentially emerging norms of the law. The book is an ideal text for students studying international humanitarian law for the first time, as well as an excellent introduction for students and practitioners of public international law and international relations.

The Law in War

Watkin, Ken

Williamson, Jamie

Reference

Routledge

This unique new concise treatise provides a highly accessible but also comprehensive and timely supplement for students studying National Security Law. Written by a team of experts in the field, this treatise serves as a useful supplement for the substantively rich but often overwhelming National Security Law texts currently on the market.
Key Features
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<li>Comprehensive overview of both the general legal framework for national security decision-making and commonly explored specific national security topics.</li>
<li>Narrative explanation of complex jurisprudential, statutory, treaty, and regulatory sources of national security law.</li>
<li>Complements a range of the most commonly addressed national security topics.</li>
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National Security Law: Principles and Policy

Legal Education

Wolters Kluwer

Criminal Law: Concepts, Crimes, and Defenses is a new first-year text structured to facilitate students' comprehensive understanding of criminal law principles, foundational crimes, defenses, and modes of liability. Closely aligned with the coverage of the Multi-State bar examination, this book covers the common law foundation of criminal law and important Model Penal Code evolutions of the law. Each chapter is introduced with a summary of the essential aspects of the law followed by carefully edited cases selected from a variety of jurisdictions and concludes with discussion questions and formative assessments. The book includes a number of innovative charts and diagrams to facilitate student understanding of the law and how each topic is implemented in practice. 
The book leverages decades of the authors' collective experience in teaching criminal law at a number of institutions and varied criminal law practice as prosecutors, defense counsel, and habeas counsel. Several hundred law students from Cornell University School of Law, the SMU Dedman School of Law and South Texas College of Law Houston, and have already "test driven" drafts of the text and provided highly positive feedback. 
Teaching materials include power point slides for each class; syllabus/assignment templates; author notes on each chapter including answers and explanations for all formative assessments and discussion questions/problems; proposed learning outcomes, practice mid-term with comprehensive solution, and final exams with model answers. 
The full set of 217 PowerPoint slides is available upon adoption. Click here to view a sample presentation. If you are a professor using this book for a class, please contact Rachael Meier at remeier@cap-press.com to request your slides.

Criminal Law: Concepts, Crimes, and Defenses

Jenks, Chris

Williams, Kenneth

Criminal Law

Carolina Academic Press

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