Recueil des Cours:Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law

"In this course, Natalino Ronzitti, Professor at the University of Pisa, draws up a very complete picture of humanitarian law applicable to maritime armed conflicts. In his introduction, Professor Ronzitti presents the sources of law applicable to armed conflicts at sea and the autonomous status of naval conflicts compared to war on land or in the air. The author then focuses on the law's obsolescence (Charter of the United Nations, the new law of the sea, progress in naval armaments and the First Additional Protocol to the Geneva conventions), on the actors of maritime war, on the theatre of war, on the military objective of the conflict, and on the means and methods of combat. The author then turns his attention to the protection of human subjects, to neutrality, and to the measures intended to guarantee the application of maritime law. Lastly, Professor Ronzitti pays attention to intervening maritime operations during armed conflicts of a non-international nature, to naval campaigns undertaken under the aegis of the United Nations, and to the end of the armed conflict"--Publisher's description.