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Laws of War

2011
The laws of war are a set of rules that aim to regulate the acceptable reasons for going to war (jus ad bellum), the conduct of hostilities during a war (jus in bello), and the aftermath of a war and the transition from war to peace (jus post bellum). They are a part of public international law, and they derive from states’ desire to regulate the use ...
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Law-of-War Precautions

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018
Abstract While the humanitarian benefits of precautions undertaken to protect civilians during attacks are readily apparent, the operational and legal costs of precautions in the attack are less acknowledged. This chapter traces the nearly simultaneous growth of modern military information technology and law-of-war precautions.
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5 Law of War

2013
This chapter introduces the two distinctive fields of public international law related to war and peace: namely, jus ad bellum and jus in bello , and three subfields of public international law: namely the United Nations system, International Criminal Law and International Humanitarian Law. It examines how the idea of ‘sovereignty as responsibility’
Yih-Jye Hwang, Lucie Cerna
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Wars of Law

2018
This book assesses the unintended consequences of the proliferation of the laws of war. In 1856 there was one codified law of war. In 2018, there are over 70 such laws, and they place increasing constraints on belligerents. This increase has generated significant consequences for the commencement, conduct, and conclusion of both interstate and civil ...
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