Shooting to kill : socio-legal perspectives on the use of lethal force / / edited by Simon Bronitt, Miriam Gani and Saskia Hufnagel.

• Superior document: Onati international series in law and society
• Author: ProQuest (Firm)
• TeilnehmendeR: Bronitt, Simon.; Gani, Miriam.; Hufnagel, Saskia.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Onati international series in law and society.
• Physical Description: xvii, 324 p.

Table of Contents

Pt. I. Theoretical and ethical perspectives -- The rule of law, legal positivism and states of emergency / Tom Campbell -- Civil emergencies and the claims of innocence / John Kleinig and Tziporah Kasachkoff -- The right of life between absolute and proportional protection / Kai Moller -- Can states commit crimes? / Andrew Vincent -- Law, death and denial in the 'Global War on Terror' / Russell Hogg -- pt. II. Legal frameworks for shooting to kill -- Shooting to kill innocents : necessity, self-defence and duress in the Commonwealth criminal code / Ian Leader-Elliott -- Regulating reasonable force : policing in the shadows of the law / Simon Bronitt and Miriam Gani -- When shooting to kill is authorised by the state : a feminist analysis / Kylie Weston-Scheuber -- Fundamental rights and findamental difference : comparing the right to human dignity and criminal liability in Germany and Australia / Saskia Hufnagel -- pt. III. Shooting to kill in context : case studies -- The fatal police shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes : is anyone responsible? / Ian Gordon and Seumas MIller -- The use of lethal force in counter-piracy operations offi Somalia / Douglas Guilfoyle and Andrew Murdoch -- Unlawful killing with combat drones : a case study of Pakistan, 2004-2009 / Mary Ellen O'Connell -- Corporations that kill : prosecuting Blackwater / David Kinley and Odette Murray.