1.HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT AND LEGAL BASIS&Christopher Greenwood

Ⅰ.Definition of the Term ‘Humanitarian Law’

Ⅱ.Historical Development

Ⅲ.Legal Basis

Ⅳ.Humanitarian Requirements and Military Necessity

Ⅴ.Binding Effect of International Law for the Soldier

Ⅵ.Tasks of the Legal Adviser

2.SCOPE OF APPLICATION OF HUMANITARIAN LAW&Christopher Greenwood

Ⅰ.Armed Conflicts

Ⅱ.Acts of War

Ⅲ.Area of War

Ⅳ.Termination of Hostilities

1.Parlementaires and Protecting Powers

2.Cease-fire and Armistice

3.Capitulations

4.Conclusion of Peace

3.COMBATANTS AND NON-COMBATANTS&KnutIpsen

Ⅰ.Combatants

Ⅱ.Non-Combatants

Ⅲ.Persons Accompanying the Armed Forces

Ⅳ.Special Forces

Ⅴ.Spies

Ⅵ.Peculiarities of Aerial and Naval Warfare

4.METHODS AND MEANS OF COMBAT&Stefan Oeter

Ⅰ.General Rules

Ⅱ.Means of Combat

1.Certain Conventional Weapons

2.NBC Weapons

a.Nuclear Weapons

b.Chemical Weapons

c.Bacteriological （Biological） and Toxin Weapons

Ⅲ.Methods of Combat

1.Military Objectives

2.Protection of Civilian Objects

3.Protection of Works and Installations Containing Dangerous Forces

4.Ruses of War and Prohibition of Perfidy

5.Psychological Warfare

6.Reprisals

5.PROTECTION OF THE CIVILIAN POPULATION&Hans-Peter Gasser

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.Civil Defence

Ⅲ.Belligerent Occupation

1.General Provisions

2.Legal Status of the Population

3.Rights and Duties of the Occupying Power

4.Requisition of Civilian Resources by the Occupying Power

5.Supply Activities in Occupied Territories

6.Jurisdiction

Ⅳ.Aliens in the Territory of a Party to the Conflict

Ⅴ.Internment of Civilians

6.PROTECTION OF THE WOUNDED， SICK， AND SHIPWRECKED&Walter Rabus

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.Medical Establishments and Transport

Ⅲ.Medical Aircraft （Wolff Heintschel v.Heinegg）

Ⅳ.Medical Personnel

Ⅴ.Hospital Zones and Localities

Ⅵ.The Distinctive Emblem

1.General

2.Camouflage of Distinctive Emblems

7.PROTECTION OF PRISONERS OF WAR&Horst Fischer

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.Beginning of Captivity

Ⅲ.Conditions of Captivity

Ⅳ.Escape of Prisoners of War

Ⅴ.Termination of Captivity

8.RELIGIOUS PERSONNEL&Walter Rabus

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.Protection of Chaplains

Ⅲ.Legal Status of Chaplains Retained by a Foreign Power

9.PROTECTION OF CULTURAL PROPERTY&Karl Josef Partsch

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.Specific Provisions for the Protection of Cultural Property

1.General Protection

2.Special Protection

Ⅲ.Protection of Cultural Property during Occupation

Ⅳ.Transport of Cultural Property

Ⅴ.Personnel Engaged in the Protection of Cultural Property

Ⅵ.Distinctive Marking of Cultural Property

Ⅶ.Final Remarks

10.THE LAW OF ARMED CONFLICTS AT SEA&Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg

Ⅰ.General

1.Definitions

2.Scope of Application

3.Acts of Naval Warfare， Competences， and Principles

Ⅱ.Military Objectives and Protected Objects in Armed Conflicts at Sea

1.Enemy Warships and Military Aircraft

2.Enemy Merchant Ships， their Cargo， Passengers and Crew

3.Protected Enemy Vessels （except hospital ships and ships under similar protection）

4.Protected Enemy Aircraft （except medical aircraft）

5.Other Protected Objects

6.Targets on Land

Ⅲ.Special Provisions Concerning Methods of Naval Warfare

1.Mine Warfare

2.Torpedoes

3.Missiles

4.Submarine Warfare

5.Maritime Exclusion Zones

6.Blockade

Ⅳ.Hospital Ships

1.General

2.Conditions of Protection and Identification

3.Rights and Obligations

4.Discontinuance of Protection

5.Personnel and Crew

11.THE LAW OF NEUTRALITY&Michael Bothe

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.The Rights and Duties of Neutrals

1.General Provisions

2.War on Land

3.Naval Warfare

a.General

b.Innocent Passage through and Presence in Neutral Waters

c.Control by Parties to the Conflict

d.Protection of Neutral Merchant Shipping

4.Aerial Warfare

12.ENFORCEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW&Rudiger Wolfrum

Ⅰ.General

Ⅱ.Public Opinion

Ⅲ.Reciprocal Interests of the Parties to the Conflict

Ⅳ.Maintenance of Discipline

Ⅴ.Reprisals

Ⅵ.Penal and Disciplinary Measures

Ⅶ.Compensation

Ⅷ.Protecting Powers and their Substitutes

Ⅸ.International Fact Finding

Ⅹ.The International Committee of the Red Cross

ⅩⅠ.Diplomatic Activities

ⅩⅡ.National Implementing Efforts

ⅩⅢ.Dissemination of Humanitarian Law

ⅩⅣ.Personal Responsibility of the Individual

ANNEX

Appendix 1.List of International Instruments

Appendix 2.Distinctive Emblems

Appendix 3.Military and Red Cross Manuals on International Humanitarian Law

Select Bibliography

Index