Law and war / / edited by Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas, Martha Merrill Umphrey

• Pubblicazione: Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (234 pages)
• Disciplina: 341.6
• Soggetto topico: Jurisprudence; War (International law)
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: DouglasLawrence SaratAustin UmphreyMartha Merrill
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Law and war : an introduction / Lawrence Douglas, Austin Sarat, and Martha Merrill Umphrey -- Limits of law : promoting humanity in armed conflict / Sarah Sewall -- The individualization of war : from war to policing in the regulation of armed conflicts / Gabriella Blum -- Pandemic disease, biological weapons, and war / Laura K. Donohue -- From antiwar politics to antitorture politics / Samuel Moyn -- War crimes trials during and after war / Larry May.
• Sommario/riassunto: Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. Historically the term "war crime" struck some as redundant and others as oxymoronic: redundant because war itself is criminal; oxymoronic because war submits to no law. More recently, the remarkable trend toward the juridification of warfare has emerged, as law has sought to stretch its dominion over every aspect of the waging of armed struggle. No longer simply a tool for judging battlefield conduct, law now seeks to subdue warfare and to enlist it into the service of legal goals. Law has emerged as a force that stands over and above war, endowed with the power to authorize and restrain, to declare and limit, to justify and condemn. In examining this fraught, contested, and evolving relationship, Law and War investigates such questions as: What can efforts to subsume war under the logic of law teach us about the aspirations and limits of law? How have paradigms of law and war changed as a result of the contact with new forms of struggle? How has globalization and continuing practices of occupation reframed the relationship between law and war?
• Titolo autorizzato: Law and war
• ISBN: 0-8047-8886-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464421403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Amherst series in law, jurisprudence, and social thought.