The Hague Peace Conferences : And Other International Conferences Concerning the Laws and Usages of War (Paperback)

Preface; List of cases cited; Introduction; Declaration of Paris; Commentary; Declaration of St Petersburg; Commentary; Draft of additional articles (Geneva) 1868; Geneva Convention 1906; Commentary; The Peace Conference of 1899; The Second Peace Conference of 1907; Final acts of the International Peace Conferences; Commentary; 1. Conventions for the pacific settlement of international disputes 1899 and 1907; Commentary; 2. Convention respecting the limitation of the employment of force for the recovery of contract debts; Commentary; 3. Convention relative to the commencement of hostilities; Commentary; 4. Conventions concerning the laws and customs of war on land (1899 and 1907); Commentary; The Brussels Draft Declaration 1984; 5. Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers and persons in war on land; Commentary; 6. Convention relative to the status of enemy merchant-ships at the outbreak of hostilities; Commentary; 7. Convention relative to the conversion of merchant-ships into war-ships; Commentary; 8. Convention relative to the laying of automatic submarine contact mines; Commentary; 9. Convention respecting bombardment by naval forces in time of war; Commentary; 10. Conventions for the adaptation of the principles of the Geneva Convention to maritime war (1899 and 1907); Commentary; Convention relating to hospital ships of 21 December, 1904; 11. Convention relative to certain restrictions on the exercise of the right of capture in maritime war; Commentary; 12. Convention relative to the establishment of an International Prize Court; Commentary; 13. Convention respecting the rights and duties of neutral powers in maritime war; Commentary; Declaration II (1899) prohibiting the use of asphyxiating gases; Declaration III (1899) prohibiting the use of bullets with a hard envelope; Commentary; Draft convention relative to the creation of a judicial arbitration court; Commentary; The results of the Second peace Conference; List of signatory powers of the conventions of the First Peace Conference; List of signatory powers of the conventions of the Second Peace Conference; Final protocol of the London Naval Conference; Declaration of London; General report presented to the Naval Conference on behalf of the Drafting Committee; Appendix. Instructions of British delegates to the Second Peace Conference; Addenda and errata; Index.