… A war fought in accordance with the law of war is still a war. … law: he counts it as a great
success–for legal thought and for … , the law purports to identify and protect a pre-legal moral right, …

… morality of war, the laws of war, and war crimes. I propose an instrumentalist account of the
laws of war, according to which the laws of war … differ from pre-legal moral norms? Can the …

… moral theory and the international law of war is not the result of moral theory modelling itself
after the law, … to the authority of the law, but is instead just the happy convergence of law with …

… This paper explores the relationship between the morality of war and the law of war. The
focus is on permissible conduct in war, specifically the principle of noncombatant immunity, …

… We might, indeed, easily imagine our laws and customs to be other than they are with …
the moral adequacy and value of such alternative laws and customs by reference to the moral …

… of the morality of war. I believe that the morality of action in war is continuous with the morality
of individual action outside the context of war, and in particular that killing in war has to be …

… analyzing the morality and legality of war primarily in terms of how things stand between
belligerent nations, and say almost nothing about the role of international legal institutions such …

… discern a moral difference between all-out nuclear war and … see a moral difference between
all-out conventional war and … war is not in itself any worse morally than conventional war, …

… Thus, regardless of whether its tenets are accepted, an understanding of the just war doctrine
is invaluable as an illustration of how we might similarly interpret international law. Indeed, …

… legal term) —the conditions for justified resort to war—the canon law also included rules
relating to the conduct of war, … The canonists’ work on just war went on simultaneously with the …