This is the long-awaited second edition of a landmark book on the law of occupation. Covering developments since 1992, including the case of Iraq and recent developments in the Middle East, this book will include new chapters on the historical evolution of the concept of occupation, collective occupations, and ending occupations.

• 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

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.