Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues

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Jelena Pejic (non-resident Senior Fellow, non-resident Senior Fellow, Lieb er Institute for Law and Warfare, the US Military Academy) Margaret Kotlik (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, the United States Military Academy)

Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict

Select Issues

Jelena Pejic (non-resident Senior Fellow, non-resident Senior Fellow, Lieb er Institute for Law and Warfare, the US Military Academy), Margaret Kotlik (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, the United States Military Academy)

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Oxford University Press Inc
06 October 2025

Series: The Lieber Studies Series

Protecting civilians who have fallen into enemy hands or are just about to come under the adversary's control is a constant challenge in the application of international humanitarian law (IHL) and the law of armed conflict (LOAC). Despite many decades of scholarship, military operational practice, and advocacy, certain legal questions remain unresolved, while others have been insufficiently examined or are newly emerging due to technological, societal, and cultural developments. Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict explores a range of longstanding, current, and new legal and practical issues in the interpretation and application of IHL/LOAC related to civilian protection. The subjects selected are based on the experiences or observations of repeated dilemmas about the extent of legal protections owed and actually extended to civilians in military operations. These include the protection of unprivileged belligerents and civilians in the invasion phase of international armed conflict, the law underlying civilian

Edited by: Jelena Pejic (non-resident Senior Fellow non-resident Senior Fellow Lieb er Institute for Law and Warfare the US Military Academy), Margaret Kotlik (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, the United States Military Academy)
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 239mm, Width: 157mm, Spine: 38mm
Weight: 839g
ISBN: 9780197793176
ISBN 10: 0197793177
Series: The Lieber Studies Series
Pages: 480
Publication Date: 06 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Foreword Joseph B. Berger III Preface Jelena Pejic and Margaret Kotlik PART ONE: Foundational Issues 1. The Protection of Civilians in the Invasion Phase of an International Armed Conflict Michael W. Meier 2. Are

Jelena Pejic, non-resident Senior Fellow, Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare, the US Military Academy, Margaret Kotlik, Assistant Professor,the United States Military Academy Jelena Pejic is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at the US Military Academy, West Point where she was the Lieber Scholar for 2023. In her earlier career she was Senior Legal Adviser in the Legal Division of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Senior Program Coordinator in the New York office of Human Rights First, and a lecturer in international law at Belgrade University Law School. She has written and presented extensively on a range of legal and practical challenges arising in international humanitarian law, as well as in international criminal and human rights law. She is currently a Member of the Board of Editors at Just Security and serves on the Board of the Belgrade Center for Human Rights. Captain Margaret Kotlik is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Law at the United States Military Academy and a Judge Advocate in the U.S. Army. She is a Military Fellow for the Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare at West Point, where she teaches constitutional and military law. Captain Kotlik holds a J.D. from SMU Dedman School of Law in Dallas, Texas, and a Bachelor of Science from Southern Methodist University.