Journal article
Reconsidering the Legal Equality of Combatants
Journal of military ethics, Vol.18(4), pp.269-286
10/02/2019
DOI: 10.1080/15027570.2020.1728088
Abstract
The legal equality of combatants (LEC) is a fixture of international law and just war theory. Both scholars who embrace and those who reject the moral equality of combatants seem committed to the legal equality of combatants. Their reasons usually include pragmatic worries about unjust combatants committing even more harm if they were to be simply prohibited from fighting. In this article I argue that this sweeping commitment to the legal equality of combatants is mistaken and that it is often grounded in a misunderstanding of the way international law governs behavior.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Reconsidering the Legal Equality of Combatants
- Creators
- Jovana Davidovic - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of military ethics, Vol.18(4), pp.269-286
- Publisher
- Routledge
- DOI
- 10.1080/15027570.2020.1728088
- ISSN
- 1502-7570
- eISSN
- 1502-7589
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/02/2019
- Academic Unit
- Law Faculty; Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397195302771
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