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Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights

Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights

Author: Jens David Ohlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107137936

Published In: August 2016
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only
Paperback Edition ISBN: 9781316502792

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In the last two decades, human rights law has played an expanding role in the legal regulation of wartime conduct. In the process, human rights law and international humanitarian law have developed a complicated sibling relationship.

For some, this relationship is viewed as a mutually reinforcing effort between like-minded regimes designed to civilize human behaviour. For others, the relationship is a more complicated sibling rivalry.

In this book, an unparalleled collection of legal theorists examine the relationship between these two bodies of law. Each chapter skilfully maps the possibilities of harmonization while, at the same time, raising cautionary flags about the limits of that project.

The authors not only chart the existing state of the law, but also debate the normative implications of the continuing influence of human rights norms on current practices including torture, targeted killings, the conduct of non-international armed conflicts, and post-war state building.

Introduction: the inescapable collision Jens David Ohlin

Part I. Convergence and Divergence of Human Rights and Laws of War:

1. Laws for war Adil Haque

2. Human rights thinking and the laws of war David Luban

3. Rethinking the relationship between IHL and IHRL Marko Milanovic

4. Acting as a sovereign versus acting as a belligerent Jens David Ohlin

Part II. Conceptual Limits of the Law of War Framework:

5. Ending the global war: the power of human rights in a time of unrestrained armed conflict Jonathan Horowitz

6. Folk international law Naz K. Modirzadeh

7. The use and abuse of analogy in IHL Kevin Jon Heller

Part III. New Frameworks for Regulating Armed Violence:

8. Forcible alternatives to war: legitimate violence in twenty-first-century international relations Janina Dill