International law and the procedural regulation of internment in non-international armed conflict

Thesis

'International humanitarian law' (IHL) has long differentiated between international and non-international armed conflicts, regulating the latter, at least at the level of treaty law, far less than the former. One of the starkest examples of this is in the case of administrative detention on security grounds or 'internment'. Thus, IHL applicable in international armed conflicts establishes a seemingly robust regime regarding internment. As such, it specifies the limited grounds on which ...

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Authors: Hill-Cawthorne, L; Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne

• Publication date: 2014
• DOI: 10.5287/ora-v0vxxqpdo
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: internment; international human rights law; non-international armed conflict; international humanitarian law; detention
• Subjects: Public international law; Human rights