Reflections on the relationship between the duty to educate in humanitarian law and the absence of a defence of mistake of law in the Rome statute of the International Criminal Court

International Conflict and Security Law: Essays in Memory of Hilaire McCoubrey

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 32-48

  Boister, Neil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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EID: 84920917275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511495137.005     Document Type: Chapter

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