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Cover -- Praise for Law, War and the Penumbra of Uncertainty -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Investigating Law, War and the Penumbra of Uncertainty -- Introduction -- Legal and Extra-legal Controversy in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Investigating Legal and Factual Uncertainty about Resort to War -- Outline of the Book -- Part I Varieties of Uncertainty in the Jus Ad Bellum -- 2 Uncertainty about Law in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Introduction -- Vagueness and Disagreement in Law -- Uncertainty in Identifying and Interpreting the Jus Ad Bellum -- 'Hard Cases' in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Interpretive Principles and the Jus Ad Bellum -- Conclusion: Competing Interpretive Cultures -- 3 Uncertainty about Facts in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Introduction -- Facts and Forecasts in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Hercules, Thrasymachus and the Confounding Effects of Factual Detail -- Responses in Law to Uncertainty of Fact -- Extra-legal Reasoning in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Conclusion: Competing Strategic Cultures -- Part II The International Court of Justice, UK„-Based„ Lawyers and the Jus Ad Bellum -- 4 Competing Interpretive Cultures of War -- Introduction -- Legal Scholars and Legal Interpretation: Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Conclusions -- The ICJ and Legal Interpretation: Nicaragua, Wall, Congo -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Conclusions -- UK International Lawyers and Legal Interpretation -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- 5 Competing Strategic Cultures of Law -- Introduction -- Legal Scholars and Extra-legal Reasoning: Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Conclusions -- The ICJ and Extra-legal Reasoning: Nicaragua, Wall and Congo -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Conclusions. |
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UK International Lawyers and Extra-legal Reasoning -- Introduction -- Narrative -- Conclusions -- Conclusion -- Part III Managing Uncertainty: Reconciling Legal and Extra-legal Reasoning -- 6 Legal Risk, Strategic Assessment, Forecasting and the Jus Ad Bellum -- Introduction -- Three Approaches to Uncertainty -- Legal Risk Management -- International Humanitarian Law -- Strategic Intelligence Analysis and Forecasting -- A Risk Management Framework for the Jus Ad Bellum -- Applying the Framework: Kosovo and Afghanistan -- Kosovo 1999 -- Afghanistan 2001 -- Conclusion -- Iraq 2003: Legal Risk Management in (Imperfect) Action? -- Conclusion -- 7 Uncertainty, Risk Management and Duty to the Law -- Introduction -- Varying Duties and Roles of International Lawyers -- Uncertainty and Challenges to Lawyers' Duty to the Law -- Justifying a Risk Management Approach -- Conclusion: Reflective Equilibrium and Hard Cases -- 8 Conclusion: Competing Normative Cultures of War -- Introduction -- Recapitulation: Argument, Findings and Conclusions -- Methodological Limitations, Future Opportunities -- Conclusion: Determinacy and Efficacy in the Jus Ad Bellum -- Bibliography -- Primary Materials -- Anonymised List of Interview and Survey Participants -- Official Government and Parliamentary Documents -- Treaties and UN Documents -- Court Judgments and Opinions -- Later Works -- Academic Articles -- Books -- Internet Resources -- Images -- Index. |
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