Sam Selvadurai

Law, War and the Penumbra of Uncertainty

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - King's College London, 2020) issued under title: Law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty: legal and factual uncertainty and extra-legal reasoning in the jus ad bellum.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 376
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. März 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 696g
• ISBN-13: 9781316511985
• ISBN-10: 1316511987
• Artikelnr.: 62847506

Autorenporträt

Sam Selvadurai is Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the Department of War Studies in King's College London. He has worked in the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office since 1993.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: investigating law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty
Part I. Varieties of uncertainty in the jus ad bellum: 2. Uncertainty about law in the jus ad bellum
3. Uncertainty about facts in the jus ad bellum
Part II. The international court of justice, UK-based lawyers and the jus ad bellum: 4. Competing interpretive cultures of war
5. Competing strategic cultures of law
Part III. Managing uncertainty: reconciling legal and extra-legal reasoning: 6. Legal risk, strategic assessment, forecasting and the jus ad bellum
7. Uncertainty, risk management and duty to the law
8. Conclusion: competing normative cultures of war
Bibliography
Index.