Name: Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law: A Reappraisal Following Israel's Use of Flechettes in the Gaza Strip (2001-2009): 32
Author: Eitan Barak (Author)
ISBN: 9789004167193

Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law: A Reappraisal Following Israel's Use of Flechettes in the Gaza Strip (2001-2009): 32 book cover

Deadly Metal Rain: The Legality of Flechette Weapons in International Law: A Reappraisal Following Israel's Use of Flechettes in the Gaza Strip (2001-2009): 32

Author(s): Eitan Barak (Author)

Publisher: Brill Nijhoff
Publication Date: 28 Oct. 2011
Edition: Illustrated
Language: English
Print length: 280 pages
ISBN-10: 9004167196
ISBN-13: 9789004167193

Book Description

Taking the April 2003 rejection by Israel’s Supreme Court of a petition to ban flechette use rounds in the densely populated Gaza Strip as its point of departure, this innovative and interdisciplinary book offers the only in-depth study on flechette weapons conducted to date. Its timeliness is demonstrated in the 2009 Goldstone Report’s call for an urgent UNGA discussion on such weapons’ future legality. The book’s first part reviews flechette weapon development and use during the Vietnam War as well as the consequent efforts to ban them. It then turns to the Israeli case: the use in Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and the resulting Supreme Court petition. The book’s third and main part dissects the prolonged debate over banning flechettes while resting on unique primary sources such as Israeli post mortem reports together with an ample legal and military-medical literature. The book thus provides one of the most comprehensive explorations available of the distinctions separating legal from illegal conventional weapons.

Editorial Reviews

Review

“This is, as far as I am aware, the only book of its kind, devoting such focused, thorough and systematic treatment to the consideration of a specific conventional weapon, and its harmony with the principles of distinction and unnecessary suffering in international humanitarian law. This fact, and the quality of Barak’s analysis, makes this book a significant contribution to existing literature in international humanitarian law, both in its specific analysis with regard to flechette weapons, but even more importantly, in its exemplary demonstration of a template for application of these principles, which can and should be used by other scholars when considering the legality of other weapon technologies.
Deadly Metal Rain is a masterful achievement, and an exemplary piece of legal scholarship; well organized and thorough in its scope, and demonstrating a deep understanding on the part of the author of the complexities and nuances of the relevant legal standards, and a rare ability to apply interdisciplinary analysis to holistically, creatively and persuasively apply these standards.”
Daniel H. Joyner, Journal of Conflict & Security Law, Volume 19 issue 3, Oxford University Press 2014.

From the Back Cover

Taking the April 2003 rejection by Israel’s Supreme Court of a petition to ban flechette use rounds in the densely populated Gaza Strip as its starting point, this interdisciplinary book provides one of the most comprehensive explorations of the distinction between legal and illegal conventional weapons available. The book’s first part reviews flechette weapon development and use during the Vietnam War, together with consequent efforts to ban them. The second part is devoted to the Israeli case: the use in Lebanon, Gaza Strip and the resulted legal affair. The third and the main part of the book dissects the prolonged debate over flechette banning while resting on ample legal and military-medical literature and. The analysis and integration, for the first time, of new documents from various fields such as Israeli post mortem reports, make no doubts on its novelty and important usefulness.

About the Author

Eitan Barak, assistant professor at the Department of International Relations, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, has lectured and published extensively on Arms Control and Disarmament, the Law of Weaponry, Security Regimes and Israel’s Defence Policy. His latest publications include: None to be Trusted: Israel’s Use of Cluster Munitions in the Second Lebanon War and the Case for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2010) and Doomed to be Violated? The U.S.-Israeli Clandestine End-User Agreement and the Second Lebanon War: Lessons for the Convention on Cluster Munitions (2009).

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