JJUA55089U Limits to War: Law and Morality in the Regulation of Armed Conflict

Course materials

Readings (cases and scholarly literature): 755 pages

Cases:

Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons, Advisory Opinion, 1996 ICJ Rep. 226 (excerpt – 20 pages)

Kadi and Al Barakaat International Foundation vs. Council and Commission (ECJ Combined cases C-402/05P & C- 415/05P) (excerpt – 15 pages)

Boumediene vs. Bush 553 US 723 (2008) (excerpt – 20 pages)

Scholarly literature:

Beard, Jack, “Law and War in the Virtual Era”, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 103, No. 3 (2009) (25 pages).

Bohman, James, “Punishment as a Political Obligation: Crimes Against Humanity and the Enforceable Right to Membership”, Buffalo Criminal Law Review, Vol. 5, No. 2 (2002) (excerpt – 35 pages).

Danner, Allison Marston, “When Courts Make Law: How the International Criminal Tribunals Recast the Laws of War”, 51 Vanderbilt Law Review 1, 41 (2006) (excerpt – 35 pages).

Duff, Anthony, “Authority and Responsibility in International Criminal Law” in Besson, Samantha & John Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2010 (20 pages).

Toni Erskine, “Coalitions of the Willing and Responsibilities to Protect: Informal Associations, Enhanced Capacities, and Shared Moral Burdens”, Ethics & International Affairs 28, no. 1 (2014) (25 pages).

Franck, Thomas M., “Humanitarian Interventionism” in Besson, Samantha & John Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2010 (20).

Franck, Thomas M., “The Emerging Right to Democratic Governance”, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 86, No. 1 (1992) (excerpt – 30 pages).

Goldsmith, Jack, “How Cyber Changes the Laws of War”, European Journal of International Law, vol. 24, no. 1 (2013) (10 pages).

Grotius, Hugo, The Rights of War and Peace, (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund), 2005 (1625), Book I, chap. ii (30 pages).

Hobbes, Thomas, Leviathan (Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett Publishing Company), 1994 (1651), Book I, chap. xiii (5 pages).

Kahn, Paul W., “Nuclear Weapons and the Rule of Law”, 31 New York University Journal of International Law & Policy 349 (1998-1999) (excerpt – 30 pages).

Kahn, Paul W., Political Theology. Four New Chapters on the Concept of Sovereignty (New York/Chichester: Columbia University Press), 2010, chap IV & conclusion (30 pages).

Kahn, Paul W., “The Paradox of Riskless Warfare”, Philosophy & Public Policy, Vol. 22, No. 3 (2002) (10 pages)

Lev, Amnon, Sovereignty and Liberty, A Study of the Foundations of Power (Abingdon: Routledge), 2014, chap 4 & 5 (35 pages).

Lev, Amnon, “War on Terror and International Law: Towards a Continental Divide” in Jenkins, Christopher David, Anders Henriksen & Amanda Jacobsen (eds.), The Long Decade: how 9/11 has changed the Law, (New York: Oxford University Press), 2014 (15 pages).

Luban, David, “A Theory of Crimes Against Humanity”, 29 Yale Journal of International Law 85-167 (2004) (excerpt – 40 pages).

Martin, Craig, “Going Medieval: Targeted Killing, Self-Defense and the Jus ad Bellum Regime” in Finkelstein, Claire, Jens David Ohlin & Andrew Altman (eds.), Targeted Killings.

Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2012 (25 pages).

McMahan, Jeff, “Targeted Killing: Murder, Combat or Law Enforcement” in Finkelstein, Claire, Jens David Ohlin & Andrew Altman (eds.), Targeted Killings. Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2012 (20 pages).

Neff, Stephen C., War and the Laws of Nations. A General History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), 2008 (25 pages).

Rawls, John, The Law of Peoples with “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited” (Cambridge, Mass,: Harvard University Press), 1999, §§ 10, 13-14 (15 pages).

Theresa Reinhold, “State Weaknesss, Irregular Warfare, and the Right to Self-Defense Post-9/11”, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 105, No. 2 (2011) (35 pages)

W. Michael Reisman & Andrea Armstrong, “The Past and Future of the Claim to Preemptive Self-Defense”, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 1000, No. 3 (2006) (25 pages)

Schmitt, Carl, “The Turn to the Discriminating Concept of War” (1937) in Nunan, Timothy (ed.), Carl Schmitt. Writings on War (Cambridge: Polity Press), 2011 (35 pages).

Stahn, Carsten, “Responsibility to Protect: Political Rhetoric or Emerging Legal Norm?”, American Journal of International Law, Vol. 101, No. 1 (2007) (20 pages).

Walzer, Michael, Just and Unjust Wars. A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations (New York: Basic Books), 2000 (1977), chap. 2-3, 17, (35 pages).

Whitman, James Q., The Verdict of Battle. The Law of Victory and the Making of Modern War (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press), 2014 (30 pages).

Witt, John Fabian, Lincoln’s Code. The Laws of War in American History (New York: Free Press), 2013 (30 pages).

Zolo, Danilo, “Humanitarian Militarism?” in Besson, Samantha & John Tasioulas (eds.), The Philosophy of International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 2010 (20 pages).