The Hazards of Interdisciplinary Pollination
Some Critical Comments on Defending Humanity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12735588 |
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| Authors | Yoram Dinstein (Tel Aviv University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 517-520 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International Criminal Justice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1478-1395 • E-ISSN: 1478-1387 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/jicj/mqp043 |
| OpenAlex | W2015931580 |
| Language | EN |
The author criticizes the book by Fletcher and Ohlin, Defending Humanity: When Force is Justified and Why? on the grounds that in attempting to develop a new construct of ‘legitimate defence’ — through a fusion of notions of criminal law, international law and philosophy — it is merely creating confusion where ‘self-defence’ is concerned. The author argues that analogies from domestic law are not helpful, and valiant efforts to bring into the fold of ‘self-defence’ the controversial concept of ‘humanitarian intervention’ are not really successful
Belligerent · Humanity · Library science · Political science · Sociology · Tel aviv · Environmental law and policy · Law
| Highly cited | No |
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