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Targeted Killing in International Law. By Nils Melzer. Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. Pp. liv, 468. Index. $130, £65, cloth; $60, £29.99, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Michael N. Schmitt*
Affiliation:
Marshall Center for Security Studies

Abstract

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Recent Books on International Law
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Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of International Law

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References

1 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, opened for signature Dec. 12, 1977, 1125 UNTS 3, reprinted in 16 ILM 1391 (1977).

2 Customary International Humanitarian Law 3743 (Jean–Marie, Henckaerts & Louise, Doswald–Beck eds., 2005)Google Scholar.

3 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and Relating to the Protection of Victims of Non–international Armed Conflicts, opened for signature Dec. 12, 1977, 1125 UNTS 609, reprinted in 16 ILM 1442 (1977).

4 The employment of potentially deadly force to save another person from being fatally or seriously injured by another.