Law and War in the Virtual Era
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9543004 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jack M Beard (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 409-445 |
| Publication date | 2009-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of International Law (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9300 • E-ISSN: 2161-7953 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0002930000019928 |
| OpenAlex | W145977614 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 3 |
Since the first attempts by states to use law to regulate armed conflict, legal constraints have often failed to protect civilians from the adverse effects of war. Advances in military technology have usually not improved this situation and have instead made law even more distant and less relevant to the suffering of civilians in wartime. The massive, indiscriminate incendiary bombing campaigns against major urban areas in World War II spoke volumes about the irrelevance of fundamental legal principles and rules designed to protect civilian populations in wartime. Law and lawyers were in fact far removed, physically and operationally, from the cockpits of the United States bombers flying over Tokyo, whose aircrews were focused on surviving their missions. They struggled with limited information about their assigned targets and conducted their operations with rudimentary preflight instructions that directed them, for example, to avoid destroying the palace of the Japanese emperor but left them free to submerge entire residential areas of the city in a sea of flames
Computer security · Drone · Forcing (mathematics · Harm · International humanitarian law · International law · Jus ad bellum · Law of war · Political science · Relevance (law · Transparency (behavior · Use of force · Computer Science · Engineering · Law · Military and Defense Studies · War, Ethics, and Justification
Midnight’s victims
Sticky security
Droning, zoning and organizing
Targeted killing’ and the lack of acquiescence
Technological Agency in the Co-Constitution of Legal Expertise and the US Drone Program
From a View to a Kill
Has the armed conflict in Afghanistan affected the rules on the conduct of hostilities
Legal asymmetries in asymmetric war
The Lure of Novelty
Victimhood and trauma within drone warfare
| Citations per year | 0.67 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2023 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |