Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Tel-Aviv University. He has twice served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, has previously been a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has served as Chairman of the Israel national branch of Amnesty International, as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and on the Council of the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law.

"The Defence is a seminal work in international, criminal, and domestic law... the most telling thing that can be said about the specifics of the argumentation in The Defence is that whenever I think that I have a new idea about superior orders, the first thing I do is to look to see whether it is already there in The Defence. More often than not it is. That is not the only reason that I think The Defence is so important. It is also extremely significant that at a methodological level it paved the way for, and showed the necessity of, the integration of international law and criminal law scholarship, and its contribution to both is what international criminal lawyers ought to always bear in mind."

• PART I: NATIONAL LAW; PART II: INTERNATIONAL THEORY; PART III: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION, 1919-1945; PART IV: THE CASES; PART V: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION SINCE 1946

Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Tel-Aviv University. He has twice served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, has previously been a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has served as Chairman of the Israel national branch of Amnesty International, as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and on the Council of the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law.

"The Defence is a seminal work in international, criminal, and domestic law... the most telling thing that can be said about the specifics of the argumentation in The Defence is that whenever I think that I have a new idea about superior orders, the first thing I do is to look to see whether it is already there in The Defence. More often than not it is. That is not the only reason that I think The Defence is so important. It is also extremely significant that at a methodological level it paved the way for, and showed the necessity of, the integration of international law and criminal law scholarship, and its contribution to both is what international criminal lawyers ought to always bear in mind."

• PART I: NATIONAL LAW; PART II: INTERNATIONAL THEORY; PART III: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION, 1919-1945; PART IV: THE CASES; PART V: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION SINCE 1946

Yoram Dinstein is Professor Emeritus of International Law at Tel-Aviv University. He has twice served as the Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, Rhode Island, has previously been a Humboldt Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, a Meltzer Visiting Professor of Law at New York University, and a visiting Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. He has served as Chairman of the Israel national branch of Amnesty International, as a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and on the Council of the San Remo International Institute of Humanitarian Law.

"The Defence is a seminal work in international, criminal, and domestic law... the most telling thing that can be said about the specifics of the argumentation in The Defence is that whenever I think that I have a new idea about superior orders, the first thing I do is to look to see whether it is already there in The Defence. More often than not it is. That is not the only reason that I think The Defence is so important. It is also extremely significant that at a methodological level it paved the way for, and showed the necessity of, the integration of international law and criminal law scholarship, and its contribution to both is what international criminal lawyers ought to always bear in mind."

• PART I: NATIONAL LAW; PART II: INTERNATIONAL THEORY; PART III: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION, 1919-1945; PART IV: THE CASES; PART V: INTERNATIONAL LEGISLATION SINCE 1946