Louise Doswald-Beck is a Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She was formerly Director of its predecessor, the University Center for International Humanitarian Law. Initially a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter and London, between 1987 and 2001 she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. At the ICRC, she acted in negotiations leading to various international instruments: the Statute of the International Criminal Court and its Elements of Crimes, Protocols II and IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, and Protocol II to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property. She won the Ciardi Prize for co-authoring the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law.

... very recommendable reading for students of international human rights law or anybody else having an academic interest in the role of human rights in 'times of conflict and terrorism.' But also in the practitioner's bookshelf the book may prove as an appreciated supplement'

• PART I: OVERARCHING ELEMENTS ; 1. Application of human right law ; 2. Ensuring rights ; 3. The regime of limitations and derogations ; 4. The role of international humanitarian law in human rights law ; 5. International measures to prevent terrorism and human rights ; PART II - ABSOLUTE PROHIBITIONS ; 6. Prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of life ; 7. Prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ; 8. Prohibition of enforced disappearances ; PART III - FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENTS OF DUE PROCESS ; 9. Prohibition of arbitrary detention ; 10. Pre-trial detention ; 11. Crimes and the principle of legality ; 12. Right to be heard by a competent independent and impartial tribunal ; 13. Elements of fair trial ; PART IV LIMITATIONS TO FREEDOMS ; 14. Right to home, property, freedom of movement and residence ; 15. Participation in public life: freedom of expression, association and conscience ; 16. Protection of personal sphere: right to private and family life ; PART V - PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS ; 17. Economic, social and cultural rights ; 18. Human Rights law on the protection of vulnerable groups during armed conflict

Louise Doswald-Beck is a Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She was formerly Director of its predecessor, the University Center for International Humanitarian Law. Initially a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter and London, between 1987 and 2001 she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. At the ICRC, she acted in negotiations leading to various international instruments: the Statute of the International Criminal Court and its Elements of Crimes, Protocols II and IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, and Protocol II to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property. She won the Ciardi Prize for co-authoring the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law.

... very recommendable reading for students of international human rights law or anybody else having an academic interest in the role of human rights in 'times of conflict and terrorism.' But also in the practitioner's bookshelf the book may prove as an appreciated supplement'

• PART I: OVERARCHING ELEMENTS ; 1. Application of human right law ; 2. Ensuring rights ; 3. The regime of limitations and derogations ; 4. The role of international humanitarian law in human rights law ; 5. International measures to prevent terrorism and human rights ; PART II - ABSOLUTE PROHIBITIONS ; 6. Prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of life ; 7. Prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ; 8. Prohibition of enforced disappearances ; PART III - FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENTS OF DUE PROCESS ; 9. Prohibition of arbitrary detention ; 10. Pre-trial detention ; 11. Crimes and the principle of legality ; 12. Right to be heard by a competent independent and impartial tribunal ; 13. Elements of fair trial ; PART IV LIMITATIONS TO FREEDOMS ; 14. Right to home, property, freedom of movement and residence ; 15. Participation in public life: freedom of expression, association and conscience ; 16. Protection of personal sphere: right to private and family life ; PART V - PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS ; 17. Economic, social and cultural rights ; 18. Human Rights law on the protection of vulnerable groups during armed conflict

Louise Doswald-Beck is a Professor of International Law at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies at the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights. She was formerly Director of its predecessor, the University Center for International Humanitarian Law. Initially a lecturer at the Universities of Exeter and London, between 1987 and 2001 she was a legal adviser at the International Committee of the Red Cross and became Head of the Legal Division in 1998. At the ICRC, she acted in negotiations leading to various international instruments: the Statute of the International Criminal Court and its Elements of Crimes, Protocols II and IV of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, the Ottawa Convention on Anti-Personnel Landmines, and Protocol II to the Hague Convention on Cultural Property. She won the Ciardi Prize for co-authoring the ICRC Study on Customary International Humanitarian Law.

... very recommendable reading for students of international human rights law or anybody else having an academic interest in the role of human rights in 'times of conflict and terrorism.' But also in the practitioner's bookshelf the book may prove as an appreciated supplement'

• PART I: OVERARCHING ELEMENTS ; 1. Application of human right law ; 2. Ensuring rights ; 3. The regime of limitations and derogations ; 4. The role of international humanitarian law in human rights law ; 5. International measures to prevent terrorism and human rights ; PART II - ABSOLUTE PROHIBITIONS ; 6. Prohibition of arbitrary deprivation of life ; 7. Prohibition of torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ; 8. Prohibition of enforced disappearances ; PART III - FUNDAMENTAL REQUIREMENTS OF DUE PROCESS ; 9. Prohibition of arbitrary detention ; 10. Pre-trial detention ; 11. Crimes and the principle of legality ; 12. Right to be heard by a competent independent and impartial tribunal ; 13. Elements of fair trial ; PART IV LIMITATIONS TO FREEDOMS ; 14. Right to home, property, freedom of movement and residence ; 15. Participation in public life: freedom of expression, association and conscience ; 16. Protection of personal sphere: right to private and family life ; PART V - PROTECTION OF VULNERABLE AND DISADVANTAGED POPULATIONS ; 17. Economic, social and cultural rights ; 18. Human Rights law on the protection of vulnerable groups during armed conflict