Suggested readings:

AUBERT Maurice, “The International Committee of the Red Cross and the Problem of Excessively Injurious or Indiscriminate Weapons”, in IRRC, No. 279, November-December 1990, pp. 477-497.   BOUTRUCHE Théo, L’Interdiction des Maux Superflus : Contribution à l’Étude des Principes et Règles Relatifs aux Moyens et Méthodes de Guerre en Droit International Humanitaire, Geneva, Thesis, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Université de Genève, 2008, 559 pp.   BRETTON Philippe, “La Convention du 10 avril 1981 sur l’interdiction ou la limitation de certaines armes classiques qui peuvent être considérées comme produisant des effets traumatiques excessifs ou comme frappant sans discrimination”, in AFDI, 1981, pp. 127-146.   COUPLAND Robin M., “The SIrUS Project: Towards a Determination of Which Weapons Cause ‘Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering’”, Geneva, ICRC, 1997, 43 pp. ICRC, Special Issue on Means of Warfare, IRRC, Vol. 87, No. 859, 2005, 604 pp.   COWLING M.G., “The Relationship between Military Necessity and the Principle of Superfluous Injury and Unnecessary Suffering in the Law of Armed Conflict”, in South African Yearbook of International Law, Vol. 25, 2000, pp. 131-160.   MACLEOD Iain J. & ROGERS Anthony P.V., “The Use of White Phosphorus and the Law of War”, in YIHL, Vol. 10 (2007), 2009, pp. 75-97.   MEYROWITZ Henri, “The Principle of Superfluous Injury or Unnecessary Suffering: From the Declaration of St. Petersburg of 1868 to Additional Protocol I of 1977”, in IRRC, No. 299, October 1994, pp. 98-122.