Abstract
It is widely agreed that the United States’ armed conflict against al Qaida and its allies—if it is legally an armed conflict at all—does not fit neatly within contemporary jus as bellum and jus in bello (international humanitarian law, or IHL) regimes. The thinking goes that transnational conflicts with non-state terrorist groups and tactics do not correspond well to the categories comprising those regimes, and wide debate then proceeds about whether and how it is appropriate nevertheless to apply them.
Associate Professor, Columbia Law School; Adjunct Senior Fellow for Law and Foreign Policy, Council on Foreign Relations; Member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.
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See Bellinger and Padmanabhan 2011, at pp. 228–229.
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See Klein 2010, at pp. 1887–1892.
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See Miller 2011.
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See, for example, International Commission of Jurists 2009.
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Brennan 2011.
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See Dudziak 2010, pp. 1698–1700.
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Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507, 520 (2004) (O’Connor, J. plurality).
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Id.
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Id. at 521.
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Boumediene v. Bush, 553 U.S. 723, 785 (2008).
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See Shanker and Savage 2011.
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See Articles 43, 78, Geneva Convention [IV] Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War art. 43, 78, Aug. 12, 1949, 6 U.S.T. 3516, 75 U.N.T.S. 287.
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Waxman, M.C. (2012). Temporality and Terrorism in International Humanitarian Law. In: Schmitt, M., Arimatsu, L. (eds) Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 2011 - Volume 14. Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, vol 14. T.M.C. Asser Press, The Hague, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-6704-855-2_15
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