Ben Saul is a Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney

This book is a fine example of great scholarship. Saul provides the reader with many references to literature and philosophy, thereby opening up the reader's understanding of terrorism and international law more generally. Undoubtedly, this book deserves to be called 'seminal', for there are no other works that provide such an in-depth examination and analysis of the concept of terrorism.

• Introduction: Concepts of Terrorism ; 1. Reasons for Defining and Criminalizing Terrorism ; Nature of International Crimes ; International Criminological Policy ; Terrorism as a Discrete International Crime ; Elements of a Definition of Terrorism ; 2. Defending 'Terrorism': Justifications and Excuses for Terrorist Violence ; Common Justifications for Terrorism ; Criminal Law Defences to Terrorism ; Circumstances Precluding Group Responsibility ; 'Illegal but Justifiable' Terrorism ; Discretion and Law: Never Negotiate with Terrorists? ; 3. Terrorism in International and Regional Treaty Law ; Transnational Criminal Law Treaties ; Treaties of Regional Organizations ; Attempts at Definition in Treaty Law 1930 - 2005 ; 4. Terrorism in Customary International Law ; UN General Assembley Practice ; UN Security Council Practice ; Judicial Decisions Defining Terrorism ; National Terrorism Legislation ; 5. Terrorism in International Humanitarian Law ; Early Developments 1919 - 1948 ; Second World War and Aftermath 1939 - 1948 ; 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Protocols ; International Criminal Tribunals since 1993 ; Individual Criminal Responsibility for 'Terrorism' ; Customary Crimes of Terrorism in Armed Conflict ; US Military Commissions and 'Terrorism' ; No Separate Category of 'Terrorist' ; Conclusion: Proving Terror, Avoiding Duplication ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ben Saul is a Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney

This book is a fine example of great scholarship. Saul provides the reader with many references to literature and philosophy, thereby opening up the reader's understanding of terrorism and international law more generally. Undoubtedly, this book deserves to be called 'seminal', for there are no other works that provide such an in-depth examination and analysis of the concept of terrorism.

• Introduction: Concepts of Terrorism ; 1. Reasons for Defining and Criminalizing Terrorism ; Nature of International Crimes ; International Criminological Policy ; Terrorism as a Discrete International Crime ; Elements of a Definition of Terrorism ; 2. Defending 'Terrorism': Justifications and Excuses for Terrorist Violence ; Common Justifications for Terrorism ; Criminal Law Defences to Terrorism ; Circumstances Precluding Group Responsibility ; 'Illegal but Justifiable' Terrorism ; Discretion and Law: Never Negotiate with Terrorists? ; 3. Terrorism in International and Regional Treaty Law ; Transnational Criminal Law Treaties ; Treaties of Regional Organizations ; Attempts at Definition in Treaty Law 1930 - 2005 ; 4. Terrorism in Customary International Law ; UN General Assembley Practice ; UN Security Council Practice ; Judicial Decisions Defining Terrorism ; National Terrorism Legislation ; 5. Terrorism in International Humanitarian Law ; Early Developments 1919 - 1948 ; Second World War and Aftermath 1939 - 1948 ; 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Protocols ; International Criminal Tribunals since 1993 ; Individual Criminal Responsibility for 'Terrorism' ; Customary Crimes of Terrorism in Armed Conflict ; US Military Commissions and 'Terrorism' ; No Separate Category of 'Terrorist' ; Conclusion: Proving Terror, Avoiding Duplication ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY

Ben Saul is a Director of the Sydney Centre for International Law at the Faculty of Law, University of Sydney. He was previously a Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney

This book is a fine example of great scholarship. Saul provides the reader with many references to literature and philosophy, thereby opening up the reader's understanding of terrorism and international law more generally. Undoubtedly, this book deserves to be called 'seminal', for there are no other works that provide such an in-depth examination and analysis of the concept of terrorism.

• Introduction: Concepts of Terrorism ; 1. Reasons for Defining and Criminalizing Terrorism ; Nature of International Crimes ; International Criminological Policy ; Terrorism as a Discrete International Crime ; Elements of a Definition of Terrorism ; 2. Defending 'Terrorism': Justifications and Excuses for Terrorist Violence ; Common Justifications for Terrorism ; Criminal Law Defences to Terrorism ; Circumstances Precluding Group Responsibility ; 'Illegal but Justifiable' Terrorism ; Discretion and Law: Never Negotiate with Terrorists? ; 3. Terrorism in International and Regional Treaty Law ; Transnational Criminal Law Treaties ; Treaties of Regional Organizations ; Attempts at Definition in Treaty Law 1930 - 2005 ; 4. Terrorism in Customary International Law ; UN General Assembley Practice ; UN Security Council Practice ; Judicial Decisions Defining Terrorism ; National Terrorism Legislation ; 5. Terrorism in International Humanitarian Law ; Early Developments 1919 - 1948 ; Second World War and Aftermath 1939 - 1948 ; 1949 Geneva Conventions and 1977 Protocols ; International Criminal Tribunals since 1993 ; Individual Criminal Responsibility for 'Terrorism' ; Customary Crimes of Terrorism in Armed Conflict ; US Military Commissions and 'Terrorism' ; No Separate Category of 'Terrorist' ; Conclusion: Proving Terror, Avoiding Duplication ; CONCLUSION ; BIBLIOGRAPHY