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Can International Law Save Us from Disasters? Urban Search and Rescue and Foreign Medical Teams Are Counting on It!

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Kirsten Nakjavani Bookmiller*
Affiliation:
Millersville University of Pennsylvania (kirsten.bookmiller@millersville.edu)

Abstract

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Type
Can International Norms Protect Us from Natural Disasters?
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2015

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References

1 See, e.g., Costanza Adinolfi et al., Humanitarian Response Review 36 (August 2005), http://www.ennonline.net/humanitarianresponsereview.

2 E-mail interview with the author (Oct. 8, 2013).

3 Id.

4 International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Law and Legal Issues in International Disaster Response: A Desk Study 91, 113, 139 (2007).

5 Fidler, David P., Disaster Relief and Governance After the Indian Ocean Tsunami: What Role for International Law? 462 (Maurer School of Law, Faculty Publication No. 398, 2005)Google Scholar, available at http://www. Repository.law.indiana.edu/facpub/398.

6 Cubie, Dug, An Analysis of Soft Law Applicable to Humanitarian Assistance: Relative Normativity in Action? 2 Journal of Int’l Humanitarian Legal Stud. 177, 214 (2011)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

7 E-mail interview, supra note 2.