This book investigates the use of duress as a defence in international criminal law, specifically in cases of child soldiers. The prosecution of children for in

Now available as an eBook for the first time, this 2005 title in the Melland Schill series asks: Can the use of children as soldiers be effectively regulated at

This book deals with child soldiers’ involvement in crimes under international law. Child soldiers are often victims of grave human rights abuses, and yet, in

This book commences with an analysis of the current state of child soldiering internationally. Thereafter the proscriptive content of contemporary norms on the

The practice of using children to participate in conflict has become a defining characteristic of 21st century warfare and is the most recent addition to the ca