Book

Rules for wrongdoers : law, morality, war

Arthur Ripstein ; with commentaries by Oona A. Hathaway, Christopher Kutz, Jeff McMahan ; ed. and introduced by Saira Mohamed

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021

X, 228 p. ; 22 cm

978-0-19-755397-8

English

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The author's lectures focus on the two bodies of rules governing war: the jus ad bellum, which regulates resort to armed force, and the jus in bello, which sets forth rules governing the conduct of armed force and applies equally to all parties. He argues that recognizing both sets of rules as distinctive prohibitions, rather than as permissions, can reconcile the supposed tension between them. He contends that the law and morality of war are in fact aligned, because the central wrong of war is that war is the condition which force decides.