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Book Review - Michael Byers, War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict (2005) - [Michael Byers, War Law: Understanding International Law and Armed Conflict (2005), Grove Press: New York (2005) ISBN 0-8021-1809-7 224 pp., 24.00 USD]
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- German Law Journal , Volume 8 , Issue 10: Special issue – ‘Coup d'état in the courtroom’ , 01 October 2007 , pp. 1013 - 1020
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- Copyright © 2007 by German Law Journal GbR
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