Detention and occupation in international humanitarian law / edited by Michael N. Schmitt , Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The declining significance of POW status / Derek Jinks -- Prisoners of war and the protecting power / Howard S. Levie -- International law aspects of repatriation of prisoners of war during hostilities / Richard A. Falk -- Procedural principles and safeguards for internment/administrative detention in armed conflict and other situations of violence / Jelena Pejic -- Evolving Geneva Convention paradigms in the "war on terrorism" : applying the core rules to the release of persons deemed "unprivileged combatants" / Sean D. Murphy -- The origins of the concept of belligerent occupation / Eyal Benvenisti -- Occupation under the laws of war : I / Elbridge Colby -- Occupation under the laws of war : II / Elbridge Colby -- What is a military occupation? / Adam Roberts -- The legal relations between an occupying power and the inhabitants / Lassa Oppenheim -- The duty of obedience to the belligerent occupant / Richard R. Baxter -- Legislation and maintenance of public order and civil life by occupying powers / Marco Sass�oli -- Government in commission / R.Y. Jennings -- Prolonged military occupation : the Israeli-occupied territories since 1967 / Adam Roberts -- Transformative military occupation : applying the laws of war and human rights / Adam Roberts.