Do attackers have a legal duty of care? Limits to the ‘individualization of war’

Does International Humanitarian Law (IHL) impose a duty of care on the attacker? From a moral point of view, should it? This article argues that the legal situation is contestable, and the moral value of a legal duty of care in attack is ambivalent. This is because a duty of care is both a condition...

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Main Author: Dill, J
Format: Journal article
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019