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The Morality of the Laws of War: War, Law, and Murder
The Morality of the Laws of War examines the modern landscape of the ethics of war. Rudolphy assesses the conflicting theories on the legality of just and unjust combatants. While doing this, she proposes an alternative morality of war proceeding from the inescapable fact that regulating war is always a significant moral compromise.
| Author(s) | By Marcela Prieto Rudolphy (Assistant Professor of Law, Assistant Professor of Law, Gould School of Law, University of Southern California). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 320 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 26 May 2023 |
| Availability | Available |
The Morality of the Laws of War examines the modern landscape of the ethics of war. Rudolphy assesses the conflicting theories on the legality of just and unjust combatants. While doing this, she proposes an alternative morality of war proceeding from the inescapable fact that regulating war is always a significant moral compromise.
1: Introduction Part I. The revisionist morality and the laws of war 2: Combatants and the privilege to kill 3: Regulating murder: instrumentalism and the revisionist morality Part II. Attenuating instrumentalism and the revisionist morality 4: Non-i
Marcela Prieto Rudolphy is assistant professor of law at the University of Southern California's Gould School of Law and Profesora Adjunta Extraordinaria en la Universidad Adolfo Ibanez, Escuela de Derecho. Prieto graduated summa cum laude from Pontifi
