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For an apt survey, see Robert Cryer, “The Philosophy of International Criminal Law” in Alexander Orakhelashvili (ed.), Research Handbook on the Theory and History of International Law (Edward Elgar, 2011).
See, e.g., Martti Koskenniemi, “Between Impunity and Show Trials” in Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 6(1) (2002), 1–35.
Jeff McMahan, Killing in War (Oxford University Press, 2009); David Rodin, War & Self Defense (Oxford University Press, 2002); and Cécile Fabre, Cosmopolitan War (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Yet, see, Jeff McMahan, “War Crimes and Immoral Action in War” in Antony Duff, et al. (eds.), The Constitution of Criminal Law (Oxford University Press, 2013); and Cécile Fabre, Cosmopolitan Peace (Oxford University Press, 2016), Chapter 7.
See, e.g., Carsten Stahn, et al., Jus Post Bellum: Mapping the Normative Foundations (Oxford University Press, 2014).
See, e.g., Gary J. Bass, “Jus Post Bellum” Philosophy & Public Affairs 32(4) (2004), 384.
For an early, notable exception, see Willard Cowles, “Universal Jurisdiction over War Crimes” California Law Review 33(2) (1945), 177.
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Introduction for a Special Dossier on the Philosophy of War Crimes. Associated with papers by Christopher Finlay, Margaret deGuzman, and Albin Eser.
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Chehtman, A. War Crimes: A Brief Road Map for Philosophical Inquiry. Criminal Law, Philosophy 12, 267–270 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11572-017-9419-8
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