Weighing Lives in War

Author: Jens David Ohlin; Larry May; Claire Finkelstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198796176

Published In: August 2017
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780198796183

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The chief means to limit and calculate the costs of war are the philosophical and legal concepts of proportionality and necessity. Both categories are meant to restrain the most horrific potential of war.

The volume explores the moral and legal issues in the modern law of war in three major categories. In so doing, the contributions will look for new and innovative approaches to understanding the process of weighing lives implicit in all theories of jus in bello: who counts in war, understanding proportionality, and weighing lives in asymmetric conflicts.

These questions arise on multiple levels and require interdisciplinary consideration of both philosophical and legal themes.

Introduction, Jens David Ohlin, Larry May, and Claire Finkelstein

Part I: Necessity & The Lives of Combatants

1: The Dispensable Lives of Soldiers, Gabriella Blum

2: Sharp Wars are Brief, Jens David Ohlin

3: Humanity, Necessity, and the Rights of Soldiers, Larry May

4: The Deaths of Combatants, Michael L. Gross

Part II: Proportionality, Civilian Harm, & Soldiers

5: Proportionate Defense, Jeff McMahan

6: Justification and Proportionality in War, Jovana Davidovic

7: Compensation and Proportionality in War, Saba Bazargan-Forward

8: A Theory of Jus in Bello Proportionality, Adil Haque

9: 4 Proportionality in Warfare as a Political Norm, Ariel Colonomos