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Why We Have Criminalized Aggressive War and Why it Matters

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Tom Dannenbaum*
Affiliation:
University College London

Abstract

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Type
International Criminal Law: New Voices
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2016

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References

1 Walzer, Michael, The Moral Standing of States: A Response to Four Critics, in Thinking Politically 219, 231 (Miller, David ed., 2007)Google Scholar. See also Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars 90, 96 (1977).

2 Luban, David, Just War and Human Rights, 9 Phil. & Pub. Aff. 160, 164 (Winter, 1980)Google Scholar.

3 International Criminal Court Assembly of States Parties, Resolution RC/Res.6, art. 8bis (2) (Jun.11, 2010). See also Institut de Droit International, Conditions of Application of Humanitarian Rules of Armed Conflict to Hostilities in which United Nations Forces May be Engaged, art. 7 (Sept. 3, 1971).

4 Theodor Meron, The Humanization of International Law (2006).

5 Salmon O. Levinson, Outlawry of War 14, 16 (1921).

6 Id. at 12, 21-22.

7 David Lloyd George, Memoirs of the Peace Conference 55 (1939) (emphasis added).

8 Shawcross, Hartley, Closing Statement at Nuremberg by Hartley Shawcross, Chief Prosecutor for Great Britain, United States v. Göring et al., (July 26, 1946), in 19 Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal 433 (1947)Google Scholar.

9 United States v. Göring et. al., Judgment (Oct. 1, 1946), in 22 Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal 411, 427 (1948) (emphasis added).

10 International Military Tribunal for the Far East, Judgment of 12 November 1948, in 22 The Tokyo War Crimes Trial 48452 (John Pritchard & Sonia M. Zaide eds., 1981).

11 Id. at 48452-53; see also id. at 49576.

12 McMahan’s key work on this issue is Jeff Mcmahan, Killing in War (2009).