Balancing Necessity and Individual Rights in the Fight Against Transnational Terrorism: “Targeted Killings” and International Law
This article explores the restraints international human rights law and international humanitarian law place on a State’s use of lethal force against suspected terrorists. Although the law restricts the ability to target suspected terrorists, it is argued that these limits should be respected in ord...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of Windsor
2009-10-01
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Series: | Windsor Yearbook of Access to Justice |
Online Access: | http://ojs.uwindsor.ca/ojs/leddy/index.php/WYAJ/article/view/4529 |