Law and War

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804787425
• ISBN13: 9780804787420
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Stanford Law Books
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.0"