Weighing lives in war / edited by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein.
Contributor(s): Ohlin, Jens David [editor.]
| May, Larry [editor.] | Finkelstein, Claire Oakes [editor.].Series: Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series: Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: First edition.Description: [vii], 327 pages : illustrations (black and white).Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780198796176; 9780198796183.Subject(s): War (International law) | War -- Moral and ethical aspects | War and society | Just war doctrine | Military ethicsDDC classification: 341.6 | Item type | Current library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Book | House of Lords Library - Palace Dewey | 341.6 WEI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 016877 |
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| 341.6 ROG Law on the battlefield / | 341.6 ROU Routledge handbook of the law of armed conflict / | 341.6 WAR The war report : | 341.6 WEI Weighing lives in war / | 341.609 HAT The internationalists : | 341.62 BLI How to go to war : | 341.62 MOI Reappraising the resort to force: international law, jus ad bellum and the war on terror / |
Introduction / Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein -- Part I. Necessity and the lives of combatants -- The dispensable lives of soldiers / Gabriella Blum -- Sharp wars are brief / Jens David Ohlin -- Humanity, necessity, and the rights of soldiers / Larry May -- The deaths of combatants : superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering in contemporary warfare / Michael L. Gross -- Part II. Proportionality, civilian harm, and soldiers -- Proportionate defense / Jeff McMahon -- Proportionate killing : using traditional jus in bello conditions to model the relationship between liability and lesser-evil justifications for killing in war / Jovana Davidovic -- Compensation and proportionality in war / Saba Bazargan-Forward -- A theory of jus in bello proportionality / Adil Ahmad Haque -- Proportionality in warfare as a political norm / Ariel Colonomos -- Part III. Combatancy and the value of lives in asymmetric conflict -- The equality of combatants in asymmetric war / Claire Finkelstein -- Rewriting the AUMF : bringing guidance to executive decisions on combatancy and returning the US to the path of the War Convention / Jon Todd -- Weighing unjust lives / Andrew T. Forcehimes -- Joint and combined targeting : structure and process / Michael Schmitt, Jeffrey Biller, Sean C. Fahey, David S. Goddard, and Chad Highfill.