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J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), Weighing Lives in War, Oxford University Press, 2017, 366pp., ISBN 978-0-198-79617-6, €95.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2019

Anna Marie Brennan
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Leiden Journal of International Law , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , June 2019 , pp. 337 - 340
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Senior Lecturer at Te Piringa Faculty of Law, University of Waikato, New Zealand [[email protected]].

References

1 For commentary on these responses see Kleffner, J., ‘Section IX of the ICRC Interpretative Guidance on Direct Participation in Hostilities: The End of Jus in Bello Proportionality as We Know It?’, (2012) 45 Israel Law Review 35CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Akande, D., ‘Clearing the Fog of War? The ICRC’s Interpretive Guidance on Direct Participation in Hostilities’, (2010) 59 Int’l & Comp. L. Q. 180CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Parks, W. Hays, ‘Part IX of the ICRC “Direct Participation in Hostilities” Study: No Mandate, No Expertise, and Legally Incorrect’, (2010) 42 NYU J. Int’l L. & Pol 769, at 828Google Scholar; Meron, T., The Humanization of International Law (2006), 9Google Scholar.

2 Blum, G., ‘The Dispensable Lives of Soldiers’, in Ohlin, J.D., May, L. and Finkelstein, C. (eds.), Weighing Lives in War (2017), 17Google Scholar, at 20.

3 Ibid., at 29.

4 Ibid.

5 Ibid., at 57.

6 F. Lieber, Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field, General Order No 100, art. 29 (24 April 1863). J. Witt, Lincoln’s Code: The Law of War in American History (2012), 235–6; Dill, J., ‘The American Way of Bombing and International Law: Two Logics of Warfare in Tension’, in Evangelista, M. and Shue, H. (eds.), The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, From Flying Fortresses to Drones (2014), 131Google Scholar.

7 J.D. Ohlin, ‘Sharp Wars are Brief’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, at 58.

8 Ibid., at 63.

9 Ibid., at 73.

10 Ibid., at 74.

11 Ibid.

12 Ibid., at 74, 75.

13 L. May, ‘Humanity, Necessity, and the Rights of Soldiers’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, at 77.

14 Ibid., at 85.

15 Ibid., at 99.

16 Ibid., at 108.

17 Ibid.

18 M. Gross, ‘The Death of Combatants’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, 110, at 111.

19 Ibid.

20 Ibid., at 127.

21 Ibid.

22 Ibid., at 128.

23 S. Bazargan-Forward, ‘Compensation and Proportionality in War’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, 173, at 182.

24 Ibid., at 183.

25 Ibid., at 184.

26 Ibid., at 187.

27 C. Finkelstein, ‘The Equality of Combatants in Asymmetric War’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, 242, at 243.

28 Ibid., at 253.

29 Ibid.

30 A. Forcehimes, ‘Weighing Unjust Lives’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, 285, at 297.

31 Ibid.

32 M. Schmitt et al., ‘Joint and Combined Targeting: Structure and Process’, in J.D. Ohlin, L. May and C. Finkelstein (eds.), supra note 2, 298, at 320–2.