Contextualizing Military Necessity

Authors

Nobuo Hayashi

Abstract

Modern theories correctly reject the Kriegsräson doctrine, according to which the laws of war do not override the necessities of war and it is rather the latter that override the former. One such theory holds that unqualified rules of international humanitarian law ("IHL") exclude military necessity being invoked de novo as a ground for deviation therefrom, yet not as a ground for additional restraint thereon. This theory--let us call it "counter-Kriegsräson"-is unacceptable for two reasons.

Recommended Citation

Nobuo Hayashi, Contextualizing Military Necessity, 27 Emory Int'l L. Rev. 189 (2013).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.law.emory.edu/eilr/vol27/iss1/6