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Belligerent Targeting And The Invalidity Of A Least Harmful Means Rule, Geoffrey S. Corn, Laurie R. Blank, Chris Jenks, Eric Talbot Jensen Jan 2013

Belligerent Targeting And The Invalidity Of A Least Harmful Means Rule, Geoffrey S. Corn, Laurie R. Blank, Chris Jenks, Eric Talbot Jensen

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

The law of armed conflict provides the authority to use lethal force as a first resort against identified enemy belligerent operatives. There is virtually no disagreement with the rule that once an enemy belligerent becomes hors de combat — what a soldier would recognizes as “combat ineffective” — this authority to employ deadly force terminates. Recently, however, some have forcefully asserted that the LOAC includes an obligation to capture in lieu of employing deadly force whenever doing so presents no meaningful risk to attacking forces, even when the enemy belligerent is neither physically disabled or manifesting surrender. Proponents of this …


Review Of The Verdict Of Battle: The Law Of Victory And The Making Of Modern War, Robert D. Sloane Jan 2013

Review Of The Verdict Of Battle: The Law Of Victory And The Making Of Modern War, Robert D. Sloane

Faculty Scholarship

This is a brief review of The Verdict of Battle: The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War (2012), by James Q. Whitman, a remarkably erudite and original contribution to scholarship on military history and the law of war. It sketches the work’s compelling historical arguments and then critiques its (comparatively modest) polemical dimensions and normative conclusions.


Correspondents' Reports: A Guide To State Practice In The Field Of International Humanitarian Law, Chris Jenks Jan 2010

Correspondents' Reports: A Guide To State Practice In The Field Of International Humanitarian Law, Chris Jenks

Faculty Journal Articles and Book Chapters

This correspondent report compiles examples of where and how the United States demonstrated its compliance with international humanitarian law by prosecuting its service members in 2010.


The Gaza War Of 2009: Applying International Humanitarian Law To Israel And Hamas, Justus Reid Weiner, Avi Bell Oct 2009

The Gaza War Of 2009: Applying International Humanitarian Law To Israel And Hamas, Justus Reid Weiner, Avi Bell

San Diego International Law Journal

This Article explores the many international legal issues raised by the Palestinian-Israeli tension along Gaza's borders. It first examines legal issues raised by Palestinian conduct and then turns to legal issues raised by Israeli conduct. As will be demonstrated, criticisms of Israeli behavior ... lack any basis in international law. By contrast, Palestinian behaviors that are rarely criticized constitute severe violations of international law.


The Cost Of Conflation: Preserving The Dualism Of Jus Ad Bellum And Jus In Bello In The Contemporary Law Of War, Robert D. Sloane Jan 2009

The Cost Of Conflation: Preserving The Dualism Of Jus Ad Bellum And Jus In Bello In The Contemporary Law Of War, Robert D. Sloane

Faculty Scholarship

Much post-9/11 scholarship asks whether modern transnational terrorist networks, the increasing availability of catastrophic weapons to nonstate actors, and other novel threats require changes to either or both of the two traditional branches of the law of war: (i) the jus ad bellum, which governs resort to war, and (ii) the jus in bello, which governs the conduct of hostilities. Scant recent work focuses on the equally vital question whether the relationship between those branches-and, in particular, the traditional axiom that insists on their analytic independence-can and should be preserved in contemporary international law. The issue has been largely neglected …


Prologue To A Voluntarist War Convention, Robert D. Sloane Jan 2007

Prologue To A Voluntarist War Convention, Robert D. Sloane

Faculty Scholarship

This Article attempts to identify and clarify what is genuinely new about the ¿new paradigm¿ of armed conflict after the attacks of September 11, 2001. Assuming that sound policy counsels treating certain aspects of the global struggle against modern transnational terrorist networks within the legal rubric of war, this Article stresses that the principal challenge such networks pose is that they require international humanitarian law, somewhat incongruously, to graft conventions - in both the formal and informal senses of that word - onto an unconventional form of organized violence. Furthermore, this process occurs in a context in which one diffuse …


U.S. Policy On Targeting Enemy Merchant Shipping: Bridging The Gap Between Conventional Law And State Practice, H. B. Robertson Jr. Jan 1993

U.S. Policy On Targeting Enemy Merchant Shipping: Bridging The Gap Between Conventional Law And State Practice, H. B. Robertson Jr.

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Comments On Sally V. And W. Thomas Mallison's Paper: The Naval Practices Of Belligerents In World War Ii: Legal Criteria And Developments, M. W. Janis Jan 1993

Comments On Sally V. And W. Thomas Mallison's Paper: The Naval Practices Of Belligerents In World War Ii: Legal Criteria And Developments, M. W. Janis

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Naval Practices Of Belligerents In World War Ii: Legal Criteria And Developments, Sally V. Mallison, Thomas W. Mallison Jan 1993

The Naval Practices Of Belligerents In World War Ii: Legal Criteria And Developments, Sally V. Mallison, Thomas W. Mallison

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Comments On Sally V. And W. Thomas Mallison's Paper: The Naval Practices Of Belligerents In World War Ii: Legal Criteria And Developments, W. J. Fenrick Jan 1993

Comments On Sally V. And W. Thomas Mallison's Paper: The Naval Practices Of Belligerents In World War Ii: Legal Criteria And Developments, W. J. Fenrick

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Comments On George K. Walker Paper State Practice Following World War Ii, 1945-1990, L. C. Green Jan 1993

Comments On George K. Walker Paper State Practice Following World War Ii, 1945-1990, L. C. Green

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Noncombatant Persons A Comment To Chapter 11 Of The Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations, Frits Kalshoven Jan 1991

Noncombatant Persons A Comment To Chapter 11 Of The Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations, Frits Kalshoven

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons, Howard S. Levie Jan 1991

Nuclear, Chemical, And Biological Weapons, Howard S. Levie

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Appendix: Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations Jan 1991

Appendix: Commander's Handbook On The Law Of Naval Operations

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Index Jan 1991

Index

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects Of Attack, Sally V. Mallison, W. Thomas Mallison Jan 1991

Naval Targeting: Lawful Objects Of Attack, Sally V. Mallison, W. Thomas Mallison

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


The Law Of Piracy: Index, Alfred P. Rubin Jan 1988

The Law Of Piracy: Index, Alfred P. Rubin

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


International Law And The Use Of Force, Shabtai Rosenne Jan 1980

International Law And The Use Of Force, Shabtai Rosenne

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


International Law, The Oas And The Dominican Crisis, Charles G. Fenwick Jan 1980

International Law, The Oas And The Dominican Crisis, Charles G. Fenwick

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


U.S. Navy Regulations, International Law, And The Organization Of American States, Theodore K. Woods Jr. Jan 1980

U.S. Navy Regulations, International Law, And The Organization Of American States, Theodore K. Woods Jr.

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Collective Intervention And The Law Of The Charter, William O. Miller Jan 1980

Collective Intervention And The Law Of The Charter, William O. Miller

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Legal Aspects Of Counterinsurgency, J. F. Hogg Jan 1980

Legal Aspects Of Counterinsurgency, J. F. Hogg

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Forcible Self·Help Under International Law, Richard B. Lillich Jan 1980

Forcible Self·Help Under International Law, Richard B. Lillich

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Law Of Naval Warfare, William O. Miller Jan 1980

Law Of Naval Warfare, William O. Miller

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Prisoner And War Negotiations: The Korean Experience And Lesson, Harry P. Ball Jan 1980

Prisoner And War Negotiations: The Korean Experience And Lesson, Harry P. Ball

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Prisoners Of War As Instruments Of Foreign Policy, Walton K. Richardson Jan 1980

Prisoners Of War As Instruments Of Foreign Policy, Walton K. Richardson

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Prisoners Of War And The Code Of Conduct, William P. Lyons Jan 1980

Prisoners Of War And The Code Of Conduct, William P. Lyons

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Yamashita, Nuremberg And Vietnam: Command Responsibility Reappraised, Franklin A. Hart Jan 1980

Yamashita, Nuremberg And Vietnam: Command Responsibility Reappraised, Franklin A. Hart

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Military Justice A Reinforcer Of Discipline, Robert S. Poydasheff Jan 1980

Military Justice A Reinforcer Of Discipline, Robert S. Poydasheff

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.


Soviet·American Arms Negotiations-1960-68: A Prelude For Salt, Eric W. Hayden Jan 1980

Soviet·American Arms Negotiations-1960-68: A Prelude For Salt, Eric W. Hayden

International Law Studies

No abstract provided.