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The Geneva Conventions and Public International Law

British Foreign and Commonwealth Office Conference commemorating the 60th Anniversary of the 1949 Geneva Conventions, London, 9 July 2009

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2010

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Copyright © International Committee of the Red Cross 2009

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References

1 Hersch Lauterpacht, ‘The Law of War’, in Elihu Lauterpacht (ed), International Law: Collected Papers – Disputes, War and Neutrality, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2004, p. 604.

2 Jean Pictet, Commentary I: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, ICRC, Geneva, 1952, pp. 28–29.

3 Pictet, above note 2, p. 28.

4 Jean Pictet, Commentary II: Geneva Convention for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, ICRC, Geneva, 1960, p. 58.