Victim Reparation Under the Ius Post Bellum - An Historical and Normative Perspective

Takes an in-depth look into the war victim's right to reparation from the seventeenth century until the present day.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Peace treaties and Admiralty Courts; 3. The Anglo-Dutch wars; 4. The Silesian loan affair and the Seven Years War; 5. The American War of Independence; 6. The Anglo-Argentine Commission; 7. The American Civil War; 8. The Second Anglo-Boer War; 9. Reparation and international law from the twentieth century; 10. A peaceful and normative conclusion?; List of cases; List of treaties, Legislation and other legal instruments; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Shavana Musa is a Lecturer in international law, security and human rights at the University of Manchester, and a Fulbright Scholar in Cyber Security at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC. She is also Founder and CEO of Ontogeny Global, a revolutionary risk management firm. She has conducted projects on human rights within the international investment regime, child labour, as well as the complexities surrounding law and technology.

Summary

This book is interdisciplinary and covers a wide range of academic genres. It will be of interest to international lawyers, legal historians, military historians, maritime lawyers and historians, political scientists, arbitrators and legal practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: Shavana Musa, Shavana (University of Manchester) Musa, Musa Shavana
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108471732
• ISBN: 978-1-108-47173-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in Internati; Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / International, Legal History, International humanitarian law, Public international law: humanitarian law