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Weighing lives in war / edited by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein.

Format Electronic and Book
EditionFirst edition.
Publication InfoOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Descriptionvi, 327 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Supplemental Content Full text available from Oxford Scholarship Online
Subject(s)
Other author/creatorOhlin, Jens David.
Other author/creatorMay, Larry.
Other author/creatorFinkelstein, Claire Oakes.
Other author/creatorOxford University Press.
Series Ethics, National Security and the Rule of Law Series
Ethics, national security, and the rule of law series. ^A1355526
Contents Introduction / Jens David Ohlin, Larry May and Claire Finkelstein -- The dispensable lives of soldiers / Gabriella Blum -- Sharp wars are brief / Jens David Ohlin -- Humanity, necessity, and the rights of soldiers / Larry May -- The death of combatants : superfluous injury and unnecessary suffering in contemporary warfare / Michael L. Gross -- 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 -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2017945335
ISBN9780198796176 (hbk.)
ISBN019879617X (hbk.)
ISBN9780198796183 (pbk.)
ISBN0198796188 (pbk.)

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