Shooting to kill : socio-legal perspectives on the use of lethal force / / edited by Simon Bronitt, Miriam Gani and Saskia Hufnagel.
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| Superior document: | Onati international series in law and society |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Onati international series in law and society.
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| Physical Description: | xvii, 324 p. |
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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.