Michael S. Bryant is Professor of History and Legal Studies at Bryant University, USA. He is the author of Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966 (2014), and co-author of Global Legal Traditions: Comparative Law for the 21st Century (2021) and Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming), amongst others.

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• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. The Roots of the Law of War in World History2. The Law of War in Pre-Columbian America3. The Law of War in Rome, the Islamic World, and the European Middle Ages4. Making Law in the Slaughterhouse of the World: Early Modernity & the Law of War5. The Law of War in 18th and 19th Century Europe6. Colonialism and the Law of War: The Western Hemisphere7. Colonialism and the Law of War: Africa and the Middle East8. The First World War and the Failure of the Law of War9. The Second World War and the Triumph of the Law of War10. Into the 21st Century: War Crimes & their Treatment since the Second World War11. The Causes of War Crimes: Theoretical PerspectivesConclusion: The Future of the Law of WarNotesBibliographyIndex

Michael S. Bryant is Professor of History and Legal Studies at Bryant University, USA. He is the author of Eyewitness to Genocide: The Operation Reinhard Death Camp Trials, 1955-1966 (2014), and co-author of Global Legal Traditions: Comparative Law for the 21st Century (2021) and Hitler’s ‘Mein Kampf’ and the Holocaust (Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming), amongst others.

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• List of IllustrationsIntroduction1. The Roots of the Law of War in World History2. The Law of War in Pre-Columbian America3. The Law of War in Rome, the Islamic World, and the European Middle Ages4. Making Law in the Slaughterhouse of the World: Early Modernity & the Law of War5. The Law of War in 18th and 19th Century Europe6. Colonialism and the Law of War: The Western Hemisphere7. Colonialism and the Law of War: Africa and the Middle East8. The First World War and the Failure of the Law of War9. The Second World War and the Triumph of the Law of War10. Into the 21st Century: War Crimes & their Treatment since the Second World War11. The Causes of War Crimes: Theoretical PerspectivesConclusion: The Future of the Law of WarNotesBibliographyIndex