This chapter raises the question of how the defence of superior orders in international criminal law and the right to conscientious objection in international human rights law interact. Both legal norms relate to the duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders under international law. The right to conscientious objection includes selective conscientious objection to taking part in a certain armed conflict, with selective conscientious objectors and soldiers sometimes basing their rights to conscientious objection on the duty to disobey manifestly illegal orders under international law. In order to develop this issue, this chapter provIDes a description of what the notions of conscientious objection and conscientious objector are.
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(2009). Introduction. In: Takemura, H. (eds) International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70527-7_1
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