Private military organizations are a new and important feature of the international landscape. They offer control of potential massive violence to the highest bidder with very limited accountability. This book offers critical insights into both the phenomenon and the challenges of and potential for regulation.

BENEDICT SHEEHY is Senior Lecturer at RMIT University, Australia. He practiced law in Canada and has taught in tertiary institutions in Canada, Mexico and Australia. His main areas of interest are corporate and commercial law, corporate governance, jurisprudence, globalization, and law and economics.JACKSON MAOGOTO is Senior Lecturer at the University of Newcastle, Australia. His main areas of interest include jurisprudence, international law and counter-terrorism. He is the author of three previous books and over three dozen refereed articles in American, Australian and European journals. He is a member of several international professional associations.VIRGINIA NEWELL is a public lawyer who has most recently taught administrative and constitutional law at the University of Newcastle, Australia and worked for the United Nations Compensation Commission in Geneva.

Private Military Firms The New Face of War The Corporate Form and the Private Military Firm The State and the Private Security Firm in the Domestic Context The Regulation of Private Military Companies Private Military Firms under International Law