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100 1 _aSelvadurai, Sam,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aLaw, war and the penumbra of uncertainty :
_blegal cultures, extra-legal reasoning and the use of force /
_cSam Selvadurai, King's College, University of London.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2022.
300 _a1 online resource (xvi, 358 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Apr 2022).
505 0 _aIntroduction: investigating law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty -- Uncertainty about law in the jus ad bellum -- Uncertainty about facts in the jus ad bellum -- Competing Interpretive cultures of war -- Competing strategic cultures of law -- Legal risk, strategic assessment, forecasting and the jus ad bellum -- Uncertainty, risk management and duty to the law -- Conclusion : competing normative cultures of war.
520 _aThis book argues that lawyers must often rely on contestable ethical and strategic intuitions when dealing with legal and factual uncertainties in 'hard cases' of resort to force. This area of international law relies on multiple tests which can be interpreted in different ways, do not yield binary 'yes/no' answers, and together define 'paradigms' of lawful and unlawful force. Controversial cases of force differ from these paradigms, requiring lawyers to assess complex, incomplete factual evidence, and to forecast the immediate and long-term consequences of using and not using force. Legal rules cannot resolve such uncertainties; instead, techniques from legal risk management, strategic intelligence assessment and political forecasting may help. This study develops these arguments using the philosophy of knowledge, socio-legal, politico-strategic and ethical theory, structured interviews and a survey with 31 UK-based international lawyers, and systematic analysis of key International Court of Justice cases and scholarly assessments of US-led interventions.
650 0 _aWar (International law)
650 0 _aLegal certainty.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781316511985
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781009051934
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