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04687aam a2200373 i 4500 001 85981CEADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230418010100 008 210914t20222022enka b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2021045498 020 $a 1316511987 020 $a 9781316511985 035 $a (OCoLC)1294399869 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a KZ6385 $b .S45 2022 100 1 $a Selvadurai, Sam, $e author. 245 10 $a Law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty : $b legal cultures, extra-legal reasoning and the use of force / $c Sam Selvadurai, King's College University of London. 264 1 $a Cambridge, United Kingdom ; $b Cambridge University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a xvi, 358 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm 500 $a Based on author's thesis (doctoral - King's College London, 2020) issued under title: Law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty : legal and factual uncertainty and extra-legal reasoning in the jus ad bellum. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction: investigating law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty -- Uncertainty about law in the jus ad bellum -- Uncertainty about facts in the jus ad bellum -- Competing Interpretive cultures of war -- Competing strategic cultures of law -- Legal risk, strategic assessment, forecasting and the jus ad bellum -- Uncertainty, risk management and duty to the law -- Conclusion : competing normative cultures of war. 520 $a "I was motivated to write this book by my own perhaps naiÂve surprise, as an official in the UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO), coming to the realisation that even respected international lawyers had fundamental disagreements about the legality of the US-led military interventions in Kosovo in 1999, Afghanistan in 2001 and of course Iraq in 2003. Like many FCDO officials, I had a basic understanding of international law and experience of working with the FCDO's international lawyers. So I had some sense that international law had 'grey areas', and that plausible legal arguments could often be advanced for opposing positions. However, I assumed even difficult legal questions ultimately always had a single correct answer, which the FCDO's lawyers could be relied upon to discover after sufficient study of doctrine, precedent and the relevant legal materials. Underpinning this assumption was a sense that such legal questions would ultimately be decided by some authoritative tribunal or other dispute resolution mechanism. It was the sharp and ultimately formally unresolved debates between respected international lawyers around the legality of use of force in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq which led me to realise the naivety of this assumption, and to seek to deepen my knowledge of international law.This book is the first which seeks to synthesise approaches from these different disciplines to offer new ways of understanding and dealing with uncertainty, controversy and the role of extra-legal intuitions in hard cases engaging international law governing resort to military force. Unlike other studies of the jus ad bellum, this book does not try to identify what the law is, nor to prescribe 'the' 'correct' method for framing and assessing legal arguments. Rather, this book explores how legal reasoning works in this area of law, using concepts from the philosophy of knowledge to explain what it is about the jus ad bellum which enables uncertainty and disagreement. This book casts light on why and how lawyers' political, ethical and strategic intuitions about how the world works and how it ought to work shape their legal assessments of hard cases engaging this law. The book considers how uncertainty about current and future facts feeds into legal uncertainty - how hard cases of force often require complex factual assessments, and forecasting of the immediate and long-term consequences of both using and not using force"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a War (International law) 650 0 $a Legal certainty. 650 6 $a Guerre (Droit international) $0 (CaQQLa)201-0062179 650 6 $a Securite juridique. $0 (CaQQLa)201-0316766 650 7 $a Legal certainty. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00995443 650 7 $a War (International law) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170412 776 08 $i Online version: $a Selvadurai, Sam. $t Law, war and the penumbra of uncertainty $d Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 $z 9781009051934 $w (DLC) 2021045499 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230418013732.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85981CEADDAE11EDB031D5162DECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search