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Selected chapters from Crimes of War:
What the Public Should Know
Act
of War
Biological
Weapons
Carpet
or Area Bombing
Chemical
Weapons
Collateral
Damage
Command
Responsibility
Evacuation
of Civilians from Battlefield
Illegal
or Prohibited Acts
Indiscriminate
Attack
Just
and Unjust War
Military
Objectives
Principle
of Proportionality
Property:
Civilian, Destruction of
Property: Wanton Destruction
Refugee,
Rights of
Reprisal
Terrorism
Against Civilians
Total
War
Universal
Jurisdiction
Wanton
Destruction
Reports
& Statements from Human Rights and Humanitarian Organizations
International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
Afghanistan:
ICRC calls on all parties to conflict to respect international
humanitarian law
Press Release, 24 October 2001
Bombing
and occupation of ICRC facilities in Afghanistan
Press Release, 26 October 2001
Human
Rights Watch
September
11 Attacks: Crimes Against Humanity
Questions
and Answers about International Humanitarian Law:
Legal Issues Arising from the War in Afghanistan and Related Anti-Terrorism
Efforts
Afghanistan: New War Puts Women's Rights In Peril
“Due
Process Protections Afforded Defendants: A Comparison between
the Proposed U.S. Military Commissions and the International Criminal
Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia”
Physicians
for Human Rights (PHR)
Women's
Health and Human Rights in Afghanistan: A Population-Based Assessment
- A report by Physicians for Human Rights
Other
Resource Collections
ASIL
Insight: Terrorist Attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon
Expert commentary and debate from the American Society
of International Law.
EurasiaNet
EurasiaNet provides information and analysis about political, economic,
environmental and social developments in the countries of Central
Asia and the Caucasus, as well as in Russia, the Middle East, and
Southwest Asia.
Terrorism
Law and Policy
JURIST: The Legal Education Network, University of Pittsburgh
School of Law.
Treaties
and Legal References
United
Nations Charter
United
Nations Treaty Collection: Conventions on Terrorism
Includes:
-
International Convention against the Taking of Hostages. New York,
17 December 1979
- International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorist Bombings.
New York, 15 December 1997
- International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing
of Terrorism. New York, 9 December 1999
Status
Of International Conventions On Terrorism
List prepared by the United Nations Association/USA
UN
Security Council resolution 1214 (8 Dec. 1998) “on the situation
in Afghanistan”
UN
Security Council resolution 1368 (12 Sept. 2001) on “Threats
to international peace and security caused by terrorist acts”
(pdf file)
North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
-Text
of the Treaty
-Document
addressing the question, "What is Art. 5?"
Major
Treaties on Aviation Law (pdf files)
Institute of Air and Space Law, McGill University
U.S.
State Department
Outlines of the major conventions against terrorism
Selected
Articles in the Media
“The
Military Tribunals on Trial”
By Aryeh Neier
The New York Review of Books, February 14,
2002
“US
Doesn't Have the Right to Decide Who Is or Isn't a Pow”
By Michael Byers
Guardian, Monday January 14, 2002
“In
Letter, 300 Law Professors Oppose Tribunals Plan”
By Katharine Q. Seelye, The New York Times, December 8, 2001, p.
B7.
“Trial
by Fury: Why Congress Must Curb Bush’s Military Courts”
By Laurence H. Tribe,
The New Republic, Online Post date: 11.29.01, Issue date 12.10.01
“Justice
Deformed: War and the Constitution”
The New York Times, editorial, Sunday, December 2,
2001,
“Tribunal v. Court-Martial: Matter of Perception”
By William Glaberson, December 2, 2001, p. B6.
“No Lawyer to Call”
By Stephen Gillers, The New York Times, op-ed, December 3,
2001, p. A19.
"What Kind of War Is It?"
By Kenneth Anderson, from the Times Literary Supplement.
A
Defining Moment in the Parsing of War
By Anne-Marie Slaughter, from The Washington Post.
ASSAULT
ON AMERICA: Paying for security with liberty
By Michael Ignatieff, the Financial Times.
Bibliography
Articles (1990-2001) from the ASIL Library on Legal Aspects of Terrorism
Association
of American University Presses
A bibliography of books by experts, published by AAUP member presses.
Topics include Terrorism, War, Peace, and Global Issues, Islamic
Thought and Culture, and Fundamentalism and Islamic States.
Laqueur,
Walter, A History of Terrorism
(Transaction, 2001).
Laqueur,
Walter (ed.), The Terrorism Reader: A Historical Anthology
(Meridian, 1978).
Rogers,
A.P.V., Law on the Battlefield
(Manchester University Press, 1996).
Wedgwood,
Ruth,
“Responding to Terrorism: The Strikes Against bin Laden,”
(Yale Journal of International Law, vol. 24: 1999, pp.559-575).
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