The International Law of Occupation

Eyal Benvenisti is the Anny and Paul Yanowicz Professor of Human Rights at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law. He was previously Hersch Lauterpacht Professor of International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Faculty of Law. He was formerly Director of the Cegla Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law (2002-2005) and Director of the Minerva Center for Human Rights at the Hebrew University (2000-2002). He is a member of the Global Law Faculty of New York University School of Law (since 2003) and has been a Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Michigan School of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School. A Humboldt Fellow at the Humboldt University and the University of Munich and a Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for International Law at Heidelberg. His publications include Sharing Transboundary Resources: International Law and Optimal Resource Use (CUP, 2002) and many articles.

• 1. Introduction ; 2. The Evolution of the Concept of Occupation in the 18th and 19th Centuries ; 3. The Characterization of Occupation ; 4. The Law on the Administration of Occupied Territories ; 5. Occupations During and After World War I: Early Challenges to the Traditional Law of Occupation ; 6. The Law of Occupation in the Wake of World War II ; 7. Occupations Since the 1970s ; 8. The Israeli Occupation of the West Bank and Gaza ; 9. The Occupation of Iraq 2003-05 ; 10. The Administration of Territory by the United Nations: The Case of UNMIK in Kosovo ; 11. The Law on Post-Occupation: The Lasting Effects of the Occupant's Legislation ; 12. Enforcement Mechanisms for Compliance with the Law of Occupation ; 13. Conclusion

The first edition of he International Law of Occupation was the first book in decades that was devoted to examining the law of occupation in depth. ... Benvenisti's updated and expanded edition adds much to this underdeveloped area of scholarship by thoughtfully considering its most difficult aspects, and his work continues to stand out for its detailed analysis of the key historical events that have shaped the development of the law of occupation for more than a century. The quick arrival of the paperback edition makes it accessible to an even wider audience.