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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]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 March 2019

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