Jens Ohlin: 4 books

Book cover of The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice
by Antonio Cassese, Guido Acquaviva, Dapo Akande
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2009

The move to end impunity for human rights atrocities has seen the creation of international and hybrid tribunals and increased prosecutions in domestic courts. The Oxford Companion to International Criminal Justice is the first major reference work to provide a complete overview of this emerging field....
Book cover of Defending Humanity

Defending Humanity

When Force is Justified and Why

by George P. Fletcher, Jens David Ohlin
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013

In Defending Humanity, internationally acclaimed legal scholar George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin, a leading expert on international criminal law, tackle one of the most important and controversial questions of our time: When is war justified? When a nation is attacked, few would deny that it...
Book cover of The Assault on International Law
by Jens David Ohlin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2014

International law presents a conceptual riddle. Why comply with it when there is no world government to enforce it? The United States has a long history of skepticism towards international law, but 9/11 ushered in a particularly virulent phase of American exceptionalism, as the US drifted away from...
Book cover of Necessity in International Law
by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016

Necessity is a notoriously dangerous and slippery concept-dangerous because it contemplates virtually unrestrained killing in warfare and slippery when used in conflicting ways in different areas of international law. Jens David Ohlin and Larry May untangle these confusing strands and perform a descriptive...
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