Victor Tadros

To Do, to Die, to Reason Why

Individual Ethics in War

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Produktbeschreibung

Victor Tadros offers a new account of the ethics of war and the legal regulation of war. He focuses especially on the conduct of individuals - for instance, whether they are required to follow orders to go to war, what moral constraints there are on killing in war, and the extent to which the laws of war ought to reflect the morality war.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780198831549
• ISBN-10: 0198831544
• Artikelnr.: 58703977

Autorenporträt

Victor Tadros is Professor of Criminal Law and Legal Theory at the University of Warwick. Prior to joining Warwick, he held positions at the University of Aberdeen and the University of Edinburgh. In the Fall 2015, he was Carter Visiting Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. He is the sole author of three previous books with OUP: Criminal Responsibility (2005), The Ends of Harm: The Moral Foundations of Criminal Law (2011) and Wrongs and Crimes (2016). From 2014-2018 he held a Major Leverhulme Research Fellowship, and in 2018 he was elected Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1.: Introduction
2.: The Morality of Harm: In and Out of War
3.: Fighting for One's Own
4.: Against Following Orders
5.: Personal and Interpersonal Sources of Doing and Allowing
6.: The Significance of Intentions
7.: Responsibility and Liability
8.: Killing and Aggregation
9.: Why It is Wrong to Kill Non-Responsible Threats
10.: Causation and Liability
11.: Sharing the Costs of War
12.: Why Law and Morality Should Converge
13.: Accountability for Wrongdoing in War