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The International Law of Belligerent Occupation. By Yoram Dinstein. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxxii, 303. Index. $108,£60, cloth; $45, £23.99, paper.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2017

Michael J. Matheson
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American Journal of International Law , Volume 104 , Issue 4 , October 2010 , pp. 701 - 704
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References

1 Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Dem. Rep. Congo v. Uganda), 2005 ICJ Rep. 168 (Dec. 19).

2 Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, 2004 ICJ Rep. 136 (July 9)Google Scholar.

3 Id., Deel. Buergenthal, J., para. 7.

4 For an excellent account of the actions of the Coalition Provisional Authority and the transition to an independent Iraqi government, see Murphy, Sean D., Contemporary Practice of the United States, 98 AJIL 601 (2004)Google ScholarPubMed.

5 SC Res. 1546 (June 8, 2004).

6 For a discussion of some of these issues, see Yutaka, Arai-Takahaski, The Law of Occupation 85–89 (2009)Google Scholar.

7 There has also been some debate about the propriety of the privatization and exploitation of Iraqi oil resources during the occupation. See id. at 214-15.

8 Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo, paras. 222-50.

9 See Matheson, Michael J., United Nations Governance of Postconflict Societies , 95 AJIL 36 (2001)Google Scholar.

10 For example, see Jean-Marie, Henckaerts & Louise, Doswald-Beck, Customary International Humanitarian Law (2005). Produced under the auspices of the International Committee of the Red Cross Google Scholar, the book presents a comprehensive analysis of the state of current customary law in both international and noninternational conflict.