INTERNATIONAL LAW: Professor Robert Delahunty
FALL 2009
Websites of Interest
You may find it useful from time to time to consult the website home
pages of --
The United Nations at http://www.un.org.htm
The International Court of Justice at http://www.icj-
cij.org/documents/index.php?p1=4&p2=5&p3=0
The United States State Department at http://www.state.gov.htm
The United States Mission to the United Nations website on
International Law at http://www.un.int/usa/lawgenl.htm
The U.K. Foreign & Commonwealth Office at
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/
The Permanent Mission of the UK to the UN at
http://ukun.fco.gov.uk/en
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel at
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA
The Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN at http://israel-
un.mfa.gov.il/mfm/web/main/missionhome.asp?MissionID=81&
The Foreign Ministry of the Russian Federation at
http://www.russianembassy.org/
The Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the UN at
http://www.un.int/russia/new/MainRoot/index_plain.html
The International Committee of the Red Cross at http://www.icrc.org/
The Council on Foreign Relations at http://www.cfr.org/htm
The American Society of International Law at http://www.asil.org.htm
and at http://www.eisil.org.html
Academic institutions also maintain data bases on international law,
including Cornell University at
http:///www.law.cornell.edu/library/guides/forin/forin.html;
George Washington University at
http://www.law.gwu.edu/burns/research/intl/intl__toc.htm; and
Northwestern University at
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html.
Some international law reviews publish on-line, including The Max
Plank Yearbook of United Nations Law,
http://www.mpil.de/ww/en/pub/research/details/publications/institute/mpyun
l.cfm
LLRX, a free Internet journal of international law, at
http://LLRX.com/international__law.html.
and the European Journal of International Law,
http://www.ejil.org/
including more generally
http://www.ejil.org/links/index.html
General Readings on Public International Law
American Society of International Law, available at:
http://www.asil.org
David J. Bederman, International Law Frameworks (rev. ed. 2006)
Rudolf Bernhhardt (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law
(5 vols.)
Hans Blix, The Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2004, available
at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/lectures/2004_dr_hans_blix.php
Philip Bobbitt, The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of
History (2002)
Philip Bobbitt, Terror and Consent: The Wars for the Twenty-first Century
(2007)
Ian Brownlie, Principles of Public International Law, (6th ed. 2003)
Hedley Bull, The Anarchical Society (2d ed. 1977)
Antonio Cassesse, International Law in a Divided World (1988)
Simon Chesterman, Thomas M. Franck & David M. Malone, Law and
Practice of the United Nations (2008)
James Crawford, The Creation of States in International Law (2d ed. 2006)
Nasir bin Hamad al-Fahd, A Treatise on the Legal Status of Using Weapons
of Mass Destruction Against Infidels (2003), available at
http://www.jihadspin.com
Jack L. Goldsmith & Eric A. Posner, The Limits of International Law (2005)
Wilhelm G. Grewe, The Epochs of International Law (2000)
Louis Henkin, Foreign Affairs and the U.S. Constitution (2d ed. 1996)
F.H. Hinsley, Sovereignty (2d ed. 1986)
Mark W. Janis, An Introduction to International Law (5th ed. 2008)
Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of
the United Nations (2006)
Stephen D. Krasner, Sovereignty: Organized Hypocrisy (1999)
Vaughan Lowe, International Law (2007)
Peter Malanczuk, Akehurst‟s Modern Introduction to International Law (7th
ed. 1997)
John F. Murphy, The United States and the Rule of Law in International
Affairs (2004)
Sean D. Murphy, Principles of International Law (2006)
John E. Noyes, Laura A. Dickinson & Mark W. Janis (eds.), International
Law Stories (2007)
Stephen D. Schlesinger, Act of Creation: The Founding of the United
Nations (2003)
Carl Schmitt, The Nomos of the Earth in the International Law of the Jus
Publicum Europaeum, 2006 (G.L. Ulman trans. & ed.)
Bruno Simma, The Charter of the United Nations: A Commentary (2d ed.
2002)
Thomas G. Weiss, What‟s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It
(2009)
Sir Michael Wood, The Sir Hersch Lauterpacht Memorial Lectures 2006,
available at http://www.lcil.cam.ac.uk/lectures/2006_sir_michael_wood.php
Readings on International Law and the Use of Force
William Ballis, The Legal Position of War: Changes in its Practice and
Theory from Plato to Vattel (1937)
Sir Thomas Barclay, Law and Usage of War (1914)
Eyal Benvenisti, The international law of occupation (pb. ed. 2004)
Geoffrey Best, War & Law Since 1945 (1994)
Niels Blokker & Nico Schrijver (eds.), The Security Council and the Use of
Force: Theory and Reality – A Need for Change? (2005)
Michael Bothe, Karl Josef Partsch & Waldemar A Solf, New Rules for
Victims of Armed Conflicts: Commentary on the Two 1977 Protocols
Addition to the Geneva Conventions of 1949 (1982)
Ian Brownlie, International Law and the Use of Force by States (1963)
Michael Byers, War Law (2005)
Abram Chayes, The Cuban Missile Crisis: International Crises and the
Rule of Law (1972)
Alan Dershowitz, Preemption: A Knife That Cuts Both Ways (2006)
Ingrid Detter, The Law of War (2d ed. 2000)
Yoram Dinstein, The Conduct of Hostilities under the Law of International
Armed Conflict (2004)
Yoram Dinstein, War, Aggression and Self-Defence (3d ed. 2003)
Robert J. Delahunty, Is the Geneva POW Convention “Quaint”?, 33 Wm.
Mitchell L. Rev. 1637 (2007)
Helen Duffy, The „War on Terror‟ and the Framework of
International Law (2003)
Knut Dőrmann, Elements of War Crimes under the Rome Statute of the
International Criminal Court (2002)
Michael Doyle, Striking First (2008)
Louis Fisher, Military Tribunals & Presidential Power (2005)
Dieter Fleck (ed.), The Handbook of Humanitarian Law in Armed Conflicts
(2d ed. 2008)
N. Fotion & G. Elfstrom, Military Ethics: Guidelines for Peace and War
(1986)
Thomas M. Franck, Nation Against Nation (1985)
Judith Gardam, Necessity, Proportionality and the Use of Force by States
(2004)
Michael J. Glennon, Limits of Law, Prerogatives of Power: Interventionism
After Kosovo (2001)
S. Goyard-Fabré (ed.), La Guerre: Actes du Colloque de Mai 1986, 10
Cahiers de philosophie politique et juridique (1986)
L.C. Green, The Contemporary Law of Armed Conflict (2d ed. 1999)
Christine Gray, International Law and the Use of Force (2004)
Christopher Greenwood, Essays on War in International Law (2006)
Hugo Grotius, The Rights of War and Peace (1901 reprint)
H.W. Halleck, International Law: Or, Rules Regulating the Intercourse of
States in Peace and War (1861)
Richard Shelly Hartigan, Lieber‟s Code & the Law of War (1983)
Jean-Marie Henckaerts & Louise Doswald-Beck, Customary International
Humanitarian Law (2 vols.) (2005)
F.H. Hinsley, Power and the Pursuit of Peace (1967)
David A. Koplow, Non-Lethal Weapons: The Law and Policy of
Revolutionary Technologies for the Military and Law Enforcement (2006)
Michael Howard (ed.), Restraints on War (1979)
Claude L. Inis, Jr., Swords into Ploughshares: The Problems and Progress
of International Organizations (3d ed. 1964)
International Committee of the Red Cross, National Case Law, available at:
http://www.icrc.org/ihl-nat.nsf (collecting cases from national courts on Law of
War)
Robert H. Jackson, The Nűrnberg Case (1971)
Frits Kalshoven, Constraints on the Waging of War (1987)
David Kennedy, War Law (2006)
Sharon Korman, The Right of Conquest: The Acquisition of Territory by
Force in International law and Practice (1996)
Myres S. McDougal & Florentino P. Feliciano, The International Law of
War: Transnational Coercion and World Public Order (1994)
Stephen C. Neff, War and the Law of Nations: A General History (2005)
D.P. O’Connell, The influence of law on sea power (1975)
Mary Ellen O’Connell (ed.), International Law and the Use of Force (2005)
P.J. Noel-Baker, The Geneva Protocol for the Pacific Settlement of
International Disputes (1925)
Mark Osiel, The End of Reciprocity: Terror, Torture, and the Law of War
(2009)
J. Ashley Roach, Legal Aspects of Submarine Warfare, 6 Max Planck Y.B.
of U.N. L. 367 (2002)
Adam Roberts & Dominik Zaum, Selective Security: War and the United
Nations since 1945 (2008)
Geoffrey Robertson, Crimes Against Humanity: The Struggle for Global
Justice (3d ed. 2006)
A.P.V. Rogers, Law on the battlefield (2d ed. 2004)
San Remo Manual on International Law Applicable to Armed Conflicts at
Sea, available at
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/560?OpenDocument
San Remo Manual on the Protection of Victims of Non-International Armed
Conflicts (Dieter Fleck ed., Tentative Text July 2004), available at
https://portfolio.du.edu/portfolio/getportfoliofile?uid=54715 –
San Remo Manual on the Law of Non-International Armed Conflict
(Michael N. Schmitt, Charles H.B. Garraway & Yoram Dinstein eds. 2006),
available at http://www.michaelscmitt.org/images/Manual%5B1%5D.Final.Brill..pdf
Yves Sandoz, Christophe Swinarski & Bruno Zimmermann (eds.),
Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977 to the Geneva
Conventions of 12 August 1949 (1987)
Marco Sassoli & Antoine A. Bouvier (eds.), How Does Law Protect in War?
(1999)
Hugo Slim, Killing Civilians: Method, Madness, and Morality in War
(2008)
J.M Spaight, War Rights on Land (1911)
Julius Stone, Aggression and World Order: A Critique of United Nations
Theories of Aggression (1958)
Supreme Court of Israel, Cases on the law of terrorism, military occupation,
etc., available at http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/sctoc.html
Christophe Swinarski (ed.), Studies and essays on international
humanitarian law and Red Cross principles in honor of Jean Pictet (1984)
Telford Taylor, Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy (1970)
Christian Tomuschat, Human Rights: Between idealism and realism ch. 11
(2003)
Iain Torrance, Ethics and the Military Community (1998)
United States Army, Field Manual 27-10: The Law of Land Warfare
(1956), available at http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~nstanton/FM27-10.htm
United States Navy, NWIP 10-2, Law of Naval Warfare (1955), available at
http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/law_naval_warfare.htm
United States Navy, Commander‟s Handbook on the Law of Naval
Operations (July 2007), available at
http://www.nwc.navy.mil/cnws/ild/documents/1-14m(jul_2007)_(nwp.)pdf
United Kingdom Ministry of Defence, The Manual of the Law of Armed
Conflict (2004)
Donald A. Wells, War Crimes and the Laws of War (2d ed. 1991)
Donald A. Wells, The Laws of Land Warfare: A Guide to the U.S. Army
Manuals (1992)
William Winthrop, Military Law and Precedents (2 vols.) (2000 reprint of
1896 ed.)
Readings on the Nature, Causes and Effects of War and on the
Possibility of Peace
Raymond Aron, Peace and War: A Theory of International Relations
(1966)
David A. Bell, The First total War: Napoleon‟s Europe and the Birth of
Warfare as We Know It (2007)
Geoffrey Blainey, The Causes of War (3d ed. 1991)
Jeremy Black, Why Wars Happen (1998)
Max Boot, War Made New: Technology, Warfare and the Course of History
1500 to Today (2006)
Ken Booth and Nicholas Wheeler, The Security Dilemma: Fear,
Cooperation, and Trust in World Politics (2008)
Michael E. Brown et al. (eds.), Theories of War and Peace (1998)
Herbert Butterfield, “The Tragic Element in Modern International
Conflict,” in History and Human Relations (1952)
Theodore Caplow, Forbidden Wars: The Unwritten Rules That Keep Us
Safe (2007)
Greg Cashman, What Causes War? (1993)
Karl von Clausewitz, On War (1976 ed.)
Christopher Coker, War and the 20th Century: The Impact of War on the
Modern Consciousness (1994)
Christopher Coker, Humane Warfare (2002)
Christopher Coker, The Future of War: The Re-Enchantment of War in the
Twenty-First Century (2004)
Dale C. Copeland, The Origins of Major Wars (2000)
David Cortwright, Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas (2008)
Michael W. Doyle, Ways of War and Peace (1997)
Arthur M. Eckstein, Mediterranean Anarchy, Interstate War, and the Rise of
Rome (2006)
Carl Joachim Friedrich, Inevitable Peace (1948)
J.F.C. Fuller, The Conduct of War 1789-1961(1961)
W.B. Gallie, Philosophers of peace and war: Kant, Clausewitz, Marx,
Engels and Tolstoy (1978)
Azar Gat, War in Human Civilization (2006)
Daniel S. Geller & J. David Singer, Nations at War: A Scientific Study of
International Conflict (1998)
Robert Gilpin, War & Change in World Politics (1981)
Colin S. Gray, The Implications of Preemptive and Preventive War
Doctrines: A Reconsideration (2007)
Jonathan Haslam, No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in
International Relations Since Machiavelli (2002)
Gunnar Heinsohn, Population, Conquest and Terror in the 21st Century,
available at http://www.geocities.com/funnyguy__35/HeinsohnPopulation.PDF.
John H. Herz, “Idealist Internationalism and the Security Dilemma,” in The
Nation-State and the Crisis of World Politics (1976)
Kalevi J. Holsti, The State, War, and the State of War (1996)
Michael Howard, War and the Liberal Conscience (1978)
Michael Howard, The Causes of Wars (1983)
Michael Howard, The Invention of Peace (2000)
William James, The Moral Equivalent of War (1906), available at
http://www.constitution.org/wj/meow.htm
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=3
57&Itemid=28
John Keegan, War and our World (1998)
Dominic D.P. Johnson, Overconfidence and War (2004)
Michael Lee Lanning, Mercenaries (2005)
Richard Ned Lebow, A Cultural Theory of International Relations (2008)
Dan Lindley, Promoting Peace with Information (2007)
Charles Lipson, Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a
Separate Peace (2003)
Evan Luard, The Blunted Sword (1988)
Evan Luard, War in International Society (1986)
Franklin D. Margiotta (ed.), Brassey‟s Encyclopedia of Land Forces and
Warfare (2000)
John J. Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001)
John Mueller, Remnants of War (2004)
John Norton Moore, Solving the War Puzzle (2004)
Thomas M. Nichols, Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive
War (2008)
Robert L. O’Connell, Ride of the Second Horseman: The Birth and Death of
War (1995)
Andreas Osiander, The States System of Europe 1640-1990 (1994)
T.V. Paul, The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons (2009)
William Penn, An Essay Towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe
(1693), available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=893
&Itemid=28
Bruce D. Porter, War and the Rise of the State (1994)
Robert I. Rotberg & Theodore K. Rabb (eds.), The Origin and Prevention of
Major Wars (1989)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The State of War (C.E. Vaughan trans. 1917),
available at http:oll.libertyfund.org/title/1010
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Lasting Peace through the Federation of Europe
(C.E. Vaughan trans. 1917), available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/1010
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Jugement sur la Paix Perpétuelle (1756, 1782),
available at http:oll.libertyfund.org/title/710
P.W. Singer, Corporate Warriors (2003)
Allan C. Stam, III, Win, Lose, or Draw: Domestic Politics and the Crucible
of War (1999)
Martin Shaw, The New Western Way of War: Risk Transfer War and its
Crisis in Iraq (2005)
James J. Sheehan, Where Have All the Soldiers Gone? The Transformation
of Modern Europe (2008)
Peter Turchin, War & Peace & War (2006)
Martin van Creveld, On Future War (1991)
Martin van Creveld, The Changing Face of War: Lessons of Combat from
the Marne to Iraq (2006)
Martin van Creveld, The Culture of War (2008)
Stephen Van Evera, Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (1999)
Harrison Wagner, War and the State: The Theory of International Politics
(2007)
Kenneth N. Waltz, “The Origins of War in Neorealist Theory,” 18 Journal
of Interdisciplinary History 628 (1988)
Kenneth N. Waltz, Man, The State and War (1959)
Mark Weisburd, The Use of Force: The Practice of States Since World
War II (1997)
Martin Wight, Power Politics (1978)
Readings on Empire, Terrorism, Jihad, “New” Wars and State Failure
Talal Asad, On Suicide Bombing (2007)
Shmuel Bar, “Religious Sources of Islamic Terrorism,” available at
http://www.policyreview.org/jun04/bar.html
Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism (2004)
Jeremy Black, War and the New Disorder in the 21st Century (2004)
Michael Bonner, Jihad in Islamic History (2006)
C.E. Callwell, Small Wars (1990 reprint of 1906 ed.)
David Cook, Understanding Jihad (2005)
Faisal Devji, Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy Morality Modernity (2005)
Michael W. Doyle, Empires (1986)
Col. Charles Dunlap, Jr., “21st Century Land Warfare: Four Dangerous
Myths,” Parameters (Autumn 1997), available at
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/97autumn/dunlap.htm
Hans Enzenberger, Civil Wars from L.A. to Bosnia (1990)
Reuven Firestone, Jihad (1999)
John Gray, Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
(2007)
John Gray, Al Qaeda and What It Means to be Modern (2005)
Fawaz Gerges, The Far Enemy (2005)
Jack Goldsmith, The Terror Presidency (2007)
Mary Habeck, Knowing the Enemy (2006)
Col. Thomas X. Hammes, The Sling and the Stone: On War in the 21st
Century (2004)
Paul Hirst, War and Power in the 21st Century: The State, Military Conflict
and the International System (2001)
Eric Hobsbawm, On Empire: America, War, and Global Supremacy (2008)
Michael Ignatieff, The Lesser Evil (2004)
Mary Kaldor, New & Old Wars (2001 ed.)
Efraim Karsh, Islamic Imperialism: A History (2006)
Gilles Kepel, Jihad (2002)
Farhad Khosrokhavar, Suicide Bombers (2005)
Michael T. Klare, Resource Wars (2001)
William Lind, Keith Nightingale, John Schmitt, Joseph Sutton & Gary
Wilson, “The Changing Face of War: Into the Fourth Generation,” Marine
Corps Gazette (Oct. 1989), available at http://www.d-n-
i.net/fcs/4th_gen_war_gazette.htm
William Lind, John Schmitt & Gary Wilson, “Fourth Generation Warfare:
Another Look,” Marine Corps Gazette (Dec. 1994), available at
http://www.d-n-i.net/fcs/4GW_another_look.htm
William Lind,“Understanding Fourth Generation War,” Military Review
(Sept./Oct. 2004), available at http://antiwar.com/lind/index.php?articleid=1702
Charles S. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and Its
Predecessors (2006)
Gil Merom, How Democracies Lose Small Wars (2003)
Herfried Műnkler, Empires: The Logic of World Domination from Ancient
Rome to the United States (2005)
Herfried Műnkler, The New Wars (2005)
John A. Nagl, Learning to Eat Soup with a Knife: Counterinsurgency
Lessons from Malaya and Vietnam (2002)
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America (March
2006)
Oded Lőwenheim, Predators and Parasites: Persistent Agents of
Transnational Harm and Great Power Authority (2007)
Robert Pape, Dying to Win (2005)
Robert I. Rotberg (ed.), When States Fail (2004)
Readings on Humanitarian Intervention
David Chandler, From Kosovo to Kabul and Beyond: Human Rights and
International Intervention (2002)
Simon Chesterman, Just War or Just Peace? Humanitarian Intervention
and International Law (2001)
Jűrgen Habermas, Bestiality and Humanity: A War on the Border Between
Law and Morality, available at
http://www.theglobalsite.ac.uk/librarytexts/011habermas.htm
J.L. Holzgrefe & Robert O. Keohane (eds.), Humanitarian Intervention
(2003)
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, The
Responsibility to Protect (2001), available at http://www.iciss.ca/menu-en.asp
John Stuart Mill, A Few Words on Non-Intervention (1859), available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php&title=255&se
arch=%22words+on+non-intervention%22&layout=html#a_809352
Fernando R. Tesón, A Philosophy of International Law (1998)
Nicholas J. Wheeler, Saving Strangers: Humanitarian Intervention in
International Society (2000)
Readings on Christian and Non-Christian Attitudes to War and Peace
St. Augustine to Boniface, Letter 189 (418), available at
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102189.htm .
Roland H. Bainton, Christian Attitudes toward War and Peace (1960)
Michael J. Broyde, Battlefield Ethics in the Jewish Tradition, 95 Am. Soc’y
Int’l Proc. 92 (2001)
Herbert Butterfield, Christianity, Diplomacy and War (1952)
Cecil John Cadoux, The Early Christian Attitude to War (1919), available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=648
&Itemid=27
Philippe Contamine, War in the Middle Ages ch. 8 (M. Jones trans. 1984)
Peter C. Craigie, The Problem of War in the Old Testament (1978)
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Just War Against Terror (2003)
Adolf Harnack, Militia Christi (1963 ed. of 1903 original)
John Helgeland, Christians and the Military: The Early Experience (1985)
Robert L. Holmes, On War and Morality (1989)
Stanley Hauerwas, Against the Nations (1985)
Martin Hengel, Victory Over Violence: Jesus and the Revolutionists (D.
Green trans. 1975)
James Turner Johnson, Can Modern War Be Just? (1984)
James Turner Johnson, The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic
Traditions (1997)
James Turner Johnson, The War to Oust Saddam Hussein: Just War and the
New Face of Conflict (2005)
Robert D. Kaplan, Warrior Politics: Why Leadership Demands a Pagan
Ethos (2002)
Jean Lasserre, War and the Gospel (Oliver Coburn trans. 1962)
Martin Luther, Whether soldiers too can be saved, available at
http://www.godrules.net/library/luther/NEW1luther_e7.htm
Oliver O’Donovan, The Just War Revisited (2003)
Ramban, Mishne Torah Yad Hachzakah: The Laws of Kings and their Wars
(Rabbi Avraham Yaakov Finke led. & trans. 2001).
Paul Ramsey, The Just War (1968)
Paul Ramsey, War and the Christian Conscience (1961)
Nagendra Singh, Armed conflicts and humanitarian laws of ancient India, in
Christophe Swinarski (ed.), Studies and essays on international
humanitarian law and Red Cross principles in honor of Jean Pictet (1984)
Tertullian, Treatise on the Crown (201), available at
http://www.tertullian.org/lfc/LFC10-11_de_corona.htm
Leo Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God Is Within You (1894), available at
http://www.kingdomnow.org/withinyou.html
K.N. Upadhyaya, The Bhagavad Gita on War and Peace, 10 Philosophy
East and West 159 (1969)
Gerhard von Rad, Holy War in Ancient Israel (1991)
Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars (3d ed. 1977)
Simone Weil, The Iliad, or The Poem of Force (1939)
John Howard Yoder, When War is Unjust (2d ed. 1996)
John Howard Yoder, Nevertheless (1992)
Aerial Bombardment, with special reference to the Second World War:
Hamburg, Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Michael Bess, Choices Under Fire: Moral Dimensions of World War II
(2006)
McGeorge Bundy, Danger and Survival (1988)
Mark Clodfelter, The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North
Vietnam (1989)
Giulio Douhet, The Command of the Air (trans. 1942)
Jőrg Friedrich, The Fire: the Bombing of Germany 1940-1945 (trans. 2006)
Stephen A. Garrett, Ethics and Airpower in World War II (1993)
A.C. Grayling, Among the Dead Cities: The History and Moral Legacy of
the WWII Bombing of Civilians in Germany and Japan (2006)
Martin Middlebrook, The Battle of Hamburg: Allied Bomber Forces
Against A German City in 1943 (1980)
Robert A. Pape, Bombing to Win: Air Power and Coercion in War (1996)
W. Hays Parks, Air War and the Law of War, 32 Air Force L. Rev. 1 (1990)
Hans Rumpf, The Bombing of Germany (1962)
Ronald Schaffer, Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II
(1985)
Shimoda v. State, 8 Japanese Annual Int’l L. 231 (1964)
J.M. Spaight, Air Power and War Rights (1933)
J.M. Spaight, Bombing Vindicated (1944), available at:
http://www.jrbooksonline.com/HTML-docs/BV__01.htm
Frederick Taylor, Dresden: Tuesday, 13 February, 1945 (2004)
United States Air Force Pamphlet 110-31, International Law – The Conduct
of Armed Conflict and Air Operations (1976)
J. Samuel Walker, Prompt & utter destruction: Truman and the use of
atomic bombs against Japan (rev. ed 2004)
Stephen M. Younger, The Bomb: A New History (2009)
Readings on the Political and Military Strategy of the American Civil
War
Michael Fellman, Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman
(1991)
Mark Grimsley, The Hard Hand of War: Union Military Policy Toward
Southern Civilians 1861-1865 (1995)
Mark E. Neely, Jr., Was the Civil War a Total War?, in Stig Főrster & Jőrg
Nagler (eds.), On the Road to Total War: The American Civil War and the
German Wars of Unification, 1861-1871 (1997)
Charles Royster, Destructive War: William Tecumseh Sherman, Stonewall
Jackson, and the Americans (1991)
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, Memoirs (1875)
Harry S. Stout, Upon the Altar of the Nation: A Moral History of the Civil
War (2006).
Classics of War Literature
Vera Brittain, Testament of Youth
J. Glenn Gray, The Warriors: Reflections on Men in Battle
Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Homer, The Iliad
Ernst Jűnger, Storm of Steel
Eva Maria Remarque, All Quiet on the Western Front
John Ruskin, The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture iii
Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Tentative Topics and Class Schedule
Week One: Overview of Public International Law -- Treaties and Other
Sources of International Law
1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, available at
http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/treatfra.htm; 1945 United Nations Charter, arts. 1, 2,
39-43; 1945 Statute of the International Court of Justice, art. 38; ASIL
Insights: Christopher J. Borgen, Kosovo‟s Declaration of Independence:
Self-Determination, Secession, and Recognition (Feb. 29, 2008), available at
http://www.asil.org/insights/2008/02/insights080229.html
Barcelona Traction Case, 1970 ICJ 3, ¶¶ 30-36; Alfred Verdross, Forbidden
Treaties in International Law, 31 Am. J. Int’l L. 571 (1937); Theodore
Meron, The Martens Clause, Principles of Humanity, and Dictates of Public
Conscience, 94 Am. J. Int’l L. 78 (2000); Yoram Dinstein, Comments on
War, 27 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y 877 (2004)
Week Two: Overview – Some Legal Issues Relating to Warfare
1907 Hague Convention IV on the Laws and Customs of War on Land,
Preamble; 1945 Charter of the International Military Tribunal (“Nuremberg
Charter”), arts. 6-11; 1945 Allied Control Council Law No. 10; The
Nuremberg Judgment, 6 F.R.D. 69, 106-32 (1948)
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (Advisory Opinion), 1996
ICJ 226, ¶¶ 54, 65-74, available at http://www.icj-
cij.org/icjwww/icases/iunan/iunanframe.htm; Shimoda v. State, available at
http://www.icrc.org/ihl-nat.nsf/0/AA559087DBCF1AF5C1256A1C0029F14D;
G.E.M. Anscombe, “Mr. Truman‟s Degree,” available at
http://www.anthonyflood.com/anscombetrumansdegree.htm;
Thomas Schelling, The Legacy of Hiroshima – a Half-Century Without
Nuclear War, available at
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/Summer00/legacy_of_hiroshima.htm;
Kenneth Waltz, The Spread of Nuclear Weapons, available at
http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/waltz1.htm
Weeks Three and Four: Overview – War and Peace: Christian, Muslim,
Enlightenment and post-Enlightenment views
Genesis ch. 4, vv. 23-24; Deuteronomy ch. 27, v. 5; 2 Book of Samuel ch. 7;
1 Book of Chronicles chh. 17, 22; Gospel of Matthew ch. 5, vv. 38-48; ch. 8,
vv. 5-14; ch. 18, vv. 21-2; Gospel of Luke, ch. 7, vv. 1-10; Acts of the
Apostles, ch. 10, ch. 15, v. 20; Epistle to the Romans, ch. 13, vv.1-7; 2
Epistle to Timothy ch. 2, vv. 3-7; Revelation ch. 1, vv.10-18, ch. 19, vv. 11-
16
Cecil J. Cadoux, Jesus on War, available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=669&Itemid=290
St. Augustine to Boniface, Letter 189 (418), available at
http://www.newadvent.org/fathers/1102189.htm .
Tertullian, On the Crown, ch. XI, available at http://www.tertullian.org/lfc/LFC10-
11_de_corona.htm
Selections from Robert Barclay, The True Christian Divinity 466-76 (1676),
available at
http://www.qhpress.org/texts/barclay/apology/prop15.html#466;
Martin Luther, Temporal Authority: To what extent should it be obeyed?,
available at
http://www.augustana.edu/religion/lutherproject/TemporalAuthority/Temporalauthority.H
TM;
St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica, Pt. II, second part, question 40
(“Of War”), available at http://www.ccel.org/a/aquinas/summa/home.html
George Weigel, Moral Clarity in a Time of War, available at
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0301/articles/weigel.html;
Archbishop Rowan Williams, „Just War Revisited‟: Lecture to the Royal
Institute for International Affairs and George Weigel, Reply to Rowan
Williams, available at
http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0403/articles/williamsweigel.html; U.S. Conference
of Catholic Bishops, The Harvest of Justice is Sown in Peace (1993),
available at http://www.usccb.org/sdwp/harvest.htm
Ayatullah Sayyid Mahmud Taleqani, Jihad and Shahadat, available at
http://www.al-islam.org/beliefs/philosophy/jihadandshahadat.html
Ayatullah Motreza Mutahhari, Jihad: The Holy War of Islam and its
Legitimacy in the Quran, available at
http://www.al-islam.org/short/jihad/.
Shmuel Bar, The Religious Sources of Islamic Terrorism, available at
http://www.policyreview.org/jun04/bar.html.
Noor Mohammed, The Doctrine of Jihad: An Introduction, 3 J. L. &
Religion 381 (1985), available at
http://www.jstor.org/view/07480814/ap030007/03a00040/0.
Robert D. Kaplan, The World of Achilles: Ancient soldiers and modern
warriors, The National Interest (Winter 2001), available at
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2751/is_2001_Winter/ai_81765313
Charles J. Dunlap, Jr., A Virtuous Warrior in a Savage World, available at
http://www.au.af.mil/au/awc/awcgate/awc-futr.htm#4gw.
William J. Prior, “We aren‟t here to do the decent thing”: Saving Private
Ryan and the Morality of War, Parameters (Autumn 2000), available at
http://www.carlisle.army.mil/usawc/parameters/00autumn/autrvess.htm
Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace (1795), available at
http://oll.libertyfund.org/index.php?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=357
&Itemid=28
Week Five: Contemporary Jus ad Bellum: The Collective Security System
of the UN Charter and International Criminal Law
The Covenant of the League of Nations, arts. 8-17
The Kellogg-Briand Pact
The Nuremberg Trial, 6 F.R.D. at 86-87, 106-12
The United Nations Charter, arts. 1, 2, 25, 27(2)-(3), 39-43, 51
United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3314, Definition of aggression
(1974), available at
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/3314.htm
Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, arts. 5, 121-23
John J. Mearsheimer, The False Promise of International Institutions,
available at
http://www.jstor.org/view/01622889/di008149/00p0140c/0.
Charles a Kupchan & Clifford A. Kupchan, The Promise of Collective
Security, available at
http://www.jstor.org/view/01622889/di008151/00p00052/0
Week Six: Self-defense, Anticipatory Self-defense, and Preemption
Daniel Webster, Letter to Lord Ashburton (July 27, 1842) and related
materials, available at
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/britain/br-1842d.htm
The Corfu Channel Case, 1949 ICJ 4, pages 27-35
Military and Paramilitary Activities in and against Nicaragua, 1986 ICJ 14,
¶¶ 184-195
Case Concerning Oil Platforms, 2003 ICJ (Nov. 6, 2003), ¶¶ 23-25, 34, 37,
40, 43-72
Legal Consequences of the Construction of a Wall in Occupied Palestinian
Territory, 2004 ICJ (July 9, 2004), ¶¶ 86-101, 114-126, 138-42, 151-160;
Higgins op. ¶¶ 33-35
R.Y. Jennings, The Caroline and McLeod Cases, 32 Am. J. Int’l L. 82
(1938)
Michael J. Glennon, The Fog of Law: Self-Defense, Inherence, and
Incoherence in Article 51 of the United Nations Charter, 25 Harv. J. L. &
Pub. Pol’y 39 (2002)
Sean D. Murphy, Self-Defense and the Israeli Wall Advisory Opinion: An
Ipse Dixit from the ICJ?, 99 Am. J. Int’l L. 62 (2005)
Gregory E. Maggs, The Campaign to Restrict the Right to Respond to
Terrorist Attacks in Self-Defense Under Article 51 of the U.N. Charter
and What the United States Can Do About It, 4 Regent J. Int’l L. 149
(2006)
William H. Taft, IV, Self-Defense and the Oil Platforms Case, 29 Yale J.
Int’l L. 295 (2004)
Weeks Seven and Eight: Gulf Wars I & II
Security Council Debates, Actions and Resolutions:
U.N. Security Council Resolutions and draft Resolutions relating to Iraq,
available at http://www.casi.org.uk/info/scriraq.html. See especially (for Gulf War
I) Resolutions 660, 661, 678, 686, 687 and (for Gulf War II) Resolutions
1441 (together with earlier drafts), draft Resolution --, March 7, 2003
(together with comments by France, Germany, Russia and UN Secretary
General), 1483 (together with earlier drafts) and 1511
Gulf War I:
Extracts from Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s speech of July 17, 1990,
available at
http://web.archive.org/web/20050310072740/http:/www.meij.or.jp/text/Gulf+War/irqkwt
900717.htm.
U.S. Ambassador April Glaspie’s Conversation of July 25, 1990 with
Saddam Hussein, available at
http://www.rense.com/general46/gil.htm
President George H.W. Bush, National Security Directive 45, U.S. Policy in
Response to the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait, August 20, 1990, and National
Security Directive 54, Responding to Iraqi Aggression in the Gulf, January
15, 1991, available at
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB39/
President George H.W. Bush, “Address to the Nation Announcing the
Deployment of United States Armed Forces into Saudi Arabia,” (August 8,
1990)
Eugene V. Rostow, Until What? Enforcement Action or Collective Self-
Defense?, 85 Am. J. Int’l L. 506 (1991)
Gulf War II:
The National Security Strategy of the United States of America, September
2002 (discussing preemption), available at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc/nss.html;
Letter from President George W. Bush to the Speaker of the House of
Representatives and President Pro Tempore of the Senate (March 21, 2003),
available at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/03/20030321-5.html
“President‟s Remarks at the United Nations General Assembly,” (Sept. 12,
2002), available at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/09/20020912-1.html
Letter from the Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland to the President of the United Nations Security
Council (Mar. 20, 2003), U.N. Doc. S/2003/350 (2003), available at
http://www.un.org/Docs/journal/asp/ws.asp?m=S/2003/350.
Lord Goldsmith, “Legal Basis for Use of Force Against Iraq,” (Mar. 17,
2003), available at http://www.labour.org.uk/news/legalbasis
“Full text: summary of attorney general's legal advice on March 7 2003,”
available at http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1471655,00.html.
“Excerpts: Annan Interview,” available at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle__east/3661640.htm
William H. Taft & Todd F. Buchwald, “Preemption, Iraq, and International
Law,” 97 Am. J. Int’l L. 557 (2003)
Ruth Wedgwood, “The Fall of Saddam Hussein: Security Council
Mandates and Preemptive Self-Defense,” 97 Am. J. Int’l L. 576(2003)
Michael J. Glennon, The UN Security Council in a Unipolar World, 44 Va,
J. Int’l L. 91 (2003)
Yoram Dinstein, “Comments on War,” 27 Harv. J. L. & Pub. Pol’y
877(2004)
Simon Chesterman, “Just War or Just Peace After September 11: Axes of
Evil and Wars Against Terror in Iraq and Beyond,” 37 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. &
Pol. 281(2005)
Jacques de Lisle, “Illegal? Yes. Lawless? Not So Fast: The United States,
International Law, and the War in Iraq,” Foreign Policy Research Institute
(March 28, 2003), available at
http://www.fpri.org/enotes/20030328.americawar.delisle.intllawwariraq.htm
l
Carl Bildt, “Pre-emptive military action and the legitimacy of the use of
force: A European Perspective” (CEPS/IISS European Security Forum, Jan.
13, 2003), available at http://www.eusec.org/bildt.html
Walter B. Slocombe, “Preemptive military action and the legitimate use of
force: An American Perspective,” CEPS/IISS European Security Forum,
Jan. 13, 2003), available at http://www.eusec.org/slocombe.html
.
Weeks Nine and Ten: Kosovo, the Second Gulf War, and the Future of
the UN
UN Security Council Resolutions 1199 (1998), 1244 (1999)
THE KOSOVO REPORT: CONFLICT, INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE,
LESSONS LEARNED (2002), available at
http://www.reliefweb.int/library/documents/thekosovoreport.htm
(You may read only the Executive Summary)
R.J. Delahunty, Paper Charter: Self-Defense and the Failure of the United
Nations Collective Security System, 56 Cath. U. L. Rev. 101 (2007)
R.J. Delahunty & John C. Yoo, The Anatomy of a Failure: The Pursuit of
Peace Through International Law, -- Mich. L. Rev. – (2008)
Richard Falk, What Future for the UN Charter System of War Prevention?
(2003), available at
http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2003/Falk_UNCharter.html.
Michael J. Glennon, The UN Security Council in a Unipolar World, 44 Va.
J. Int’l L. 91 (2003)
Robert O. Keohane, The Contingent Legitimacy of Multilateralism,
GARNET Working Paper No: 09/06 (Sept. 2006)
Mary Ellen O’Connell, The UN, NATO, and International Law After
Kosovo, 22 Human Rights Quarterly 22 (2000), available at
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/human_rights_quarterly/v022/22.1oconnell.htm
l.
Abraham D. Sofaer, International Law and Kosovo, 36 Stanford J. Int’l L. 1
(2000)
John C. Yoo & Will Trachman, Less Than Bargained For: The Use of
Force and the Declining Relevance of the United Nations, 5 Chicago J. Int’l
L. 379 (2005)
John C. Yoo, Force Rules: UN Reform and Intervention, 6 Chicago J. Int’l
L. 641 (2006)
Week Eleven: Introduction to Jus in Bello
Chris af Jochnick & Roger Normand, The Legitimation of Violence: A
Critical History of the Laws of War, 35 Harv. Int’l L. J. 49 (1994)
Final Report to the Prosecutor By The Committee Established to Review the
NATO Bombing Campaign Against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(June 13, 2000), available at
http://www.un.org/icty/pressreal/nato061300.htm.
NATO Air Campaign against Seabirds and the Laws of War, 94 American
Journal of Int'l Law 690-92
Judith Gail Gardam, Proportionality and Force in International Law, 87
Am. J. Int'l L. 391
Council on Foreign Relations, Nonlethal Weapons and Capabilities: Report
of an Independent Task Force, Graham T. Allison & Paul X. Kelly, Co-
Chairs, Richard L. Garwin, Project Director (2004), available at
http://www.cfr.org/content/publications/attachments/Nonlethal_TF.pdf
David A. Koplow, Tangled Up in Khaki and Blue: Lethal and Non-Lethal
Weapons in Recent Confrontations, 36 Geo. J. Int’l L. 703 (2005)
Week Twelve: Air War – Noncombatants as targets
The Hague Air Rules, Ch. 4 (1923), Doc. Supp. 230, 232-5
Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons (Advisory Opinion),1996
ICJ 226, ¶¶ 54, 65-74, available at
http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/iunan/iunanframe.htm;
Shimoda v. State, available at http://www.icrc.org/ihl-
nat.nsf/0/AA559087DBCF1AF5C1256A1C0029F14D;
Charles S. Maier, Targeting the City, available at
http://www.icrc.org/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/review-859-p429;
Francisco Gomes, The Law of Air Warfare, available at
http://www.icrc.ch/Web/eng/siteeng0.nsf/html/57JPCL.
The Hague Air Rules, Ch. 4 (1923), Doc. Supp. 230, 232-5
LTC Peter R. Faber, The Ethical-Legal Dimensions of Strategic Bombing
During WWII, available at http://www.duke.edu/jscope/papfab.htm.
John C. Ford, S.J., The Morality of Obliteration Bombing,
5 Theological Studies 272 (1944)
United States Air Force, Compliance with the Law of Armed Conflict (Air
Force Policy Directive 51-4) (April 1993)
available at: http://www.e-publishing.af.mil/pubfiles/af/51/afpd51-
4/afpd51-4.pdf
Public Comm. Against Torture in Israel v. Israel (Dec. 11, 2005), English
translation available at
http://www.icrc.org/ihl-
nat.nsf/46707c419d6bdfa24125673e00508145/d14f3f94989b702fc12572d800
43927b!OpenDocument
Week Thirteen: Insurgency, counter-insurgency, and the laws of
occupation (Fourth Geneva Convention)
Janimat, Almandi, Ajouri and Beit Sourik Village cases,
Supreme Court of Israel, available at
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Politics/sctoc.html
Affo case, Supreme Court of Israel, available at
http://www.hamoked.org.il/LinkedItems_en.asp?item_id=50173.
Memorandum to William H. Taft, IV et al., from Jack Goldsmith, Assistant
Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel,
Re: Possibility of Relocating Certain “Protected Persons” from Occupied
Iraq (Mar. 19, 2004),
available at
http://library.uchastings.edu/library/foreign-and-international-research/Iraq-
research/doj_march_19.pdf