External publications

These book chapters, articles and reports on disaster law were produced by IFRC personnel for external publication.

• IFRC, Desk review on trends in the promotion of community-based disaster risk reduction through legislation (Background paper for the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction Global Assessment Review, 2010)
•  David Fisher, “The right to humanitarian assistance for internally displaced persons,” chapter 3 in Walter Kaelin et al, eds., Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges (Brookings Institution-ASIL, 2010).
• David Fisher, “Legal implementation of human rights obligations to prevent displacement due to natural disasters,” chap. 14 in  Walter Kaelin et al, eds.,  Incorporating the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement into Domestic Law: Issues and Challenges (Brookings Institution-ASIL, 2010).
• David Fisher, “Regulating the Helping Hand: Improving Legal Preparedness for Cross-Border Disaster Medicine,” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine, vol. 25, no. 3 (May-June 2010)

• Victoria Bannon, “International Disaster Response Law and the Commonwealth: Answering the Call to Action,” Commonwealth Law Journal, Vol. 34, No. 4 (2008)
• Victoria Bannon, “The Coming Storms: Asia’s National Disaster Preparedness,” in Council for Security Cooperation in Asia-Pacific, Regional Security Outlook (2008)
• David Fisher, “Law of International Disaster Response: Overview and Ramifications for Military Actors,” Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, vol. 38 (2008)

• David Fisher “Domestic Regulation of International Humanitarian Assistance in Disasters and Armed Conflict: A Comparative Analysis,” International Review of the Red Cross, No. 866, p. 345-72 (2007).
• David Fisher, “International Disaster Relief:  A Growing Regulatory Dilemma,” Proceedings of the 101st Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law (2007)
• David Fisher, “Fast Food:  Regulatory Emergency Food Aid in Sudden-Impact Disasters,” Vanderbilt Journal Transnational Law, vol. 40, no. 4 (2007)

• Victoria Bannon and David Fisher, “Legal lessons in disaster relief from the tsunami, the Pakistan earthquake and hurricane Katrina,” ASIL Insight, vol. 10, no. 6 (2006)
• Victoria, Bannon, “Strengthening Disaster Response Laws, Rules and Principles: Overview of the current system and a new way forward,” in Tsunami and Disaster Management:  Law and Governance (C. Raj Kumar and D.K. Srivastava, eds., 2006)
• Katrien Beeckman, “Mandates, Legal Status and Cooperation International Response to Non-Armed Conflict Disasters: Legal Challenges Encountered in Light of the Current Regulatory Framework,” Refugee Survey Quarterly vol. 25, 129-137 (2006)