Law and war /

This work explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war - a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Law has emerged as a force that stands over and above war, endowed with the power to authorise and restrain, to...

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Other Authors: Sarat, Austin, Douglas, Lawrence, Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014
Series:Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Law and war : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey
  • Limits of law : promoting humanity in armed conflict / Sarah Sewall
  • The individualization of war : from war to policing in the regulation of armed conflicts / Gabriella Blum
  • Pandemic disease, biological weapons, and war / Laura K. Donohue
  • From antiwar politics to antitorture politics / Samuel Moyn
  • War crimes trials during and after war / Larry May.