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A Time For Presidential Power? War Time And The Constrained Executive, David Levine
A Time For Presidential Power? War Time And The Constrained Executive, David Levine
Michigan Law Review
Between 2002 and 2008 I served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force. Though I had been deployed overseas several times, my primary place of duty was in the United States. When I landed at Baghdad International Airport in June 2006, however, several things immediately changed for me as a result of military regulations. I had to carry my sidearm and dog tags at all times. I could not eat anywhere other than a U.S. military installation. I could not drink alcohol. My pay was a bit higher. Personally, I was more vigilant, more aware of my surroundings. …
On War As Law And Law As War, Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral, Francisco Contreras
On War As Law And Law As War, Ignacio De La Rasilla Del Moral, Francisco Contreras
Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral, Ph.D.
A locus classicus of international law, the study of the regulation of the legality of the use of force has an unavoidable ring of tragic fanciness about it. War, as acknowledged by David Kennedy in the very first sentence of his book, is indeed ‘a profound topic – like truth, love, death or the divine’. A Pandora's box of multiple distilled intellectual emotions behind which lurk the horrid memories of its survivors, war only truly breathes in the mirrors of the mutilated, in the eyes of the tortured, in the memories of the displaced, in withering flowers over graves crowned, …
Sacrificial Violence And Targeting In International Humanitarian Law, Gregor Noll
Sacrificial Violence And Targeting In International Humanitarian Law, Gregor Noll
Gregor Noll
Drawing on the work of René Girard, his text inquires into incidental and lawful losses of civilians in the regulation of international humanitarian law as part of a symbolic order restraining violent conflict within communities. First, I inquire into central norms on targeting in IHL, explaining their internal inconsistencies. Second, I try to show that these inconsistencies can be explaining by applying Girard's theory on sacrificial violence.