Excerpt from Select American Cases on the Law of Self-Defense Some attempt has been made to reduce the cases to a consistent arrangement, but this has been only par tially successful. The difficulty of doing so will be obvious, when it is considered that many of' the cases treat upon several different branches of the law of self-defence, and hence that in placing such a case under one head it is necessarily omitted under another. The inconvenience resulting from this difficulty has been overcome by a system of cross references in the head-notes of the principal cases, so that wherever the searcher finds a point of doctrine stated, he is referred to every other case in the book where the same point is under discussion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Yoram Dinstein's influential textbook is an indispensable guide to the legal issues of war and peace, armed attack, self-defence and enforcement measures taken under the aegis of the Security Council. This fifth edition incorporates recent treaties such as the Kampala amendments of the Statute of the International Criminal Court, new case law from the International Court of Justice and other tribunals, and contemporary doctrinal debates. Several new supplementary sections are also included, which take into account recent conflicts around the world, and consideration is given to new resolutions of the Security Council. With many segments having been rewritten to reflect recent State practice, this book remains a wide-ranging and highly readable introduction to the legal issues surrounding war and self-defence.