War crimes and just war
War crimes are international crimes committed during armed conflict. Larry May argues that the best way to understand war crimes is as crimes against humanness rather than as violations of justice. Throughout, May demonstrates that the principle of humanness in the cornerstone of international human...
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Cambridge New York
Cambridge University Press
2007
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Justifying war but restricting tactics
- Collective responsibility and honor during war
- Jus gentium and minimal natural law
- Humane treatment as the cornerstone of the rules of war
- Killing naked soldiers : combatants and noncombatants
- Shooting poisoned arrows : banned and accepted weapons
- Torturing prisoners of war : protected and normal soldiers
- The principle of discrimination or distinction
- The principle of necessity
- The principle of proportionality
- Prosecuting soldiers for war crimes
- Prosecuting military leaders for war crimes
- Commanded and commanding defenses
- Epilogue and conclusions
- Should terrorists be treated humanely?.