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Author:   Mark J. Osiel
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Inc
Imprint:   Transaction Publishers
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780765807984

ISBN 10:   076580798
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   30 August 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

I: Obedience to Superior Orders; 1: Virtues and Vices of Military Obedience; 2: Tie Law of Military Obedience; 3: The Uncertain Scope of “Manifest” Illegality; 4: Sparse and Unsettled Rules; 5: The Weightlessness of Moral Gravity; 6: Irregularity amidst Procedural Formality; 7: Atrocities “Vanish” by Verbal Artistry; 8: Views of Atrocity im Legal Theory: Positivist, Naturalist and Postmodernist; 9: Individual Responsibility for Systemic Horrors?; II: Averting Atrocity; 10: Legal Norms and Social Practices in Military Life; 11: Cold Hearts and the Heat of Battle: Atrocity from Above or from Below?; 12: Permutations on Perversity: Atrocity by Connivance and Brutalization; 13: Why Do Men Fight?; 14: Morale and Morality: An Uneasy Relationship; III: Freedom and Constraint in Military Life and Law; 15: Rules vs. Standards m Military Law; 16: Martial Courage as Moral Judgment; 17: Promoting Practical Judgment; 18: What Soldiers Know; 19: Misreading Orders Morally; 20: Disobedience as Creative “Compliance”; 21: Living with Lawyers; 22: Applying Applied Ethics, or Where the Rubber Hits the Road; Conclusion

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"""[Osiel] argues with passion for the legal and practical possibility of doing better than the present legal standard in encouraging moral responsibility in officers and individual soldiers. In the end, Osiel transcends the genre of legal analysis entirely to ground his ethical appeal in the very nature and basis of the military profession itself."" - Martin Cook, Naval Law Review"""

[Osiel] argues with passion for the legal and practical possibility of doing better than the present legal standard in encouraging moral responsibility in officers and individual soldiers. In the end, Osiel transcends the genre of legal analysis entirely to ground his ethical appeal in the very nature and basis of the military profession itself. - Martin Cook, Naval Law Review

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Mark Osiel is professor of law at the University of Iowa. He is the author of Mass Atrocity. Collective Memory, and the Law.

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