International Law Reports: Volume 178
International Law Reports Series

Decisions of international courts and arbitrators, as well as judgments of national courts, are fundamental elements of modern public international law. The International Law Reports is the only publication in the world wholly devoted to the regular and systematic reporting in English of such decisions. It is therefore an absolutely essential work of reference. Volume 178 is devoted to the 2017 judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (No 2); 'The Iraqi Civilian Claimants' v. Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mohammed (Serdar) and Others v. Ministry of Defence, the 2017 judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Al-Waheed v. Ministry of Defence; Mohammed (Serdar) v. Ministry of Defence, and the 2017 judgment of the United Kingdom Supreme Court in Belhaj and Boudchar v. Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (No 1).

1. Mohammed (Serdar) v. Ministry of Defence; Qasim and Others ('The PIL Claimants') v. Secretary of State for Defence; 2. Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office; R (Rahmatullah and Others) v. Secretary of State for Defence and Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs; 'The Iraqi Civilian Claimants' v. Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office; 3. Mohammed (Serdar) v. Ministry of Defence; Qasim and Others ('The PIL Claimants') v. Secretary of State for Defence (on appeal from [2014] EWHC 1369 (QB)); Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office; 'The Iraqi Civilian Claimants' v. Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (on appeal from EWHC 3846 (QB)); 4. Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (No 2); 'The Iraqi Civilian Claimants' v. Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office; Mohammed (Serdar) and Others v. Ministry of Defence; 5. Al-Waheed v. Ministry of Defence; Mohammed (Serdar) v Ministry of Defence; 6. Belhaj and Boudchar v. Straw and Others; Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (No 1).

Christopher Greenwood is a Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and a Bencher of the Middle Temple.
Karen Lee is a Fellow of the Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.