Shooting to kill: socio-legal perspectives on the use of lethal force

In: Oñati international series in law and society

Abstract

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 Möller --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.