Important Facts about Cannibals My feelings of loneliness began to grow. More than ever before, I longed to have someone to talk to. A few months passed after my frightening experience. Then one day the sight of a ship on the rocks raised my hopes of a rescue. But when I rowed out to the … Read more
The Historic Egyptian Palace ‘So, it was all just a hoax!’ Luke murmured. ‘But I still can’t understand why someone should want to dress up as a mummy. There’s nothing in the pyramid, and even the sarcophagus was probably empty.’ ‘Not quite!’ exclaimed Lizzie, pointing into the sarcophagus. ‘There’s something else inside!’ There were two … Read more
The Pros and Cons of Reprisals in the Workplace Like military necessity, the doctrine of reprisals can justify setting aside the protection that is normally afforded to innocents under the international laws of war. Reprisals constitute the traditional remedy for belligerents against whom war crimes have been committed. Reprisals are conducted either to deter further … Read more
The Importance Of The Military: A Comprehensive Guide In our previous discussions, we noted that part of the reason why nations have been remiss in prosecuting those who commit war crimes is that the laws prohibiting certain actions of war such as those against the intentional killing of noncombatants contain so many caveats that it … Read more
The Responsibility for War Crimes: Who Is To Blame? H.L.A. Hart notes that even though it is the internal point of view rather than sanctions that provides the primary motive for obedience to laws, sanctions are still necessary to motivate into conformity those who take an external point of view toward laws and do not … Read more
Moral Issues in War: A Systematic Analysis In the last chapter I argued that if the Just War Tradition and the laws that formalize parts of it are going to ameliorate the tragedy of war, there will have to be an increased emphasis on promulgating the prescriptions and prohibitions contained in these laws. In this … Read more
International Law Issues The Just War Tradition that Grotius researched and articulated so carefully in his great corpus juris on international law began to be formally declared as positive law in the nineteenth century. In 1862 President Lincoln directed that a code of rules be developed for the conduct of the Civil War. As a … Read more
Hugo Grotius and the War of Justice Chap#6 Part 1 With these words [on intentions] you may rightly associate the passage of Augustine: “The eager desire to injure, the cruelty of rebellion, the lust of ruling, and whatever else it is akin, these are vengeance, the unappeased and unappeasable mind, the savagery of the things … Read more
Hugo Grotius and the Just War Grotius’s effort to establish a concise corpus of international law for the conduct of war represents the culmination of a thousand years of gradually reducing moral principles to objective criteria. Grotius realized, however, the impossibility of a completely objective standard of justice; for the conduct of human affairs, even … Read more
Hugo Grotius: Father of International Law This commentator goes on to note that “behind the façade of so comprehensive as to render the major proposition almost the general disapproval of the right of resistance there laid qualifications retical.” And indeed, Grotius adds that there is a right of resist laws of the state, abandons his … Read more