Jens David Ohlin

Cornell University - School of Law

Professor of Law

218 Myron Taylor Hall

Ithaca, NY 14853-4901

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1.

Did Russian Cyber-Interference in the 2016 Election Violate International Law?

Texas Law Review, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-15
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 18 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2017
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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cyber-attacks, sovereignty, intervention, self-determination, elections, coercion, hacking, usurpation

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Election Interference: A Unique Harm Requiring Unique Solutions

Defending Democracies: Combating Foreign Election Interference in a Digital Age (Oxford University Press, 2021), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-50
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 08 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2021
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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election interference, sovereignty, self-determination, transparency, Twitter, social media

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The Torture Lawyers

Harvard International Law Journal, Vol. 51, No. 1, pp. 193-256, 2010
Number of pages: 64 Posted: 10 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2010
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Torture, Necessity, Complicity, Aiding and Abetting, Justifications, Excuses, Accomplice Liability, Attorney Advice

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The Combatant's Privilege in Asymmetric & Covert Conflicts

40 Yale J. Int'l L. 337-93 (2015), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-33
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 31 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 29 May 2015
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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privilege of combatancy, combatant's privilege, non-international armed conflict, covert action, belligerency, treason, targeted killing

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The Co-Perpetrator Model of Joint Criminal Enterprise

Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals, Vol. 14, 2008
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 10 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 12 Sep 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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JCE, joint criminal enterprise, co-perpetration, co-perpetrator, perpetration, conspiracy, aiding and abbeting, control theory, culpability, ICTY, Stakic

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Attempt, Conspiracy, and Incitement to Commit Genocide

THE UN GENOCIDE CONVENTION - A COMMENTARY, P. Gaeta, ed., Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 18 Aug 2009
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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genocide, attempt, conspiracy, incitement

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The Duty to Capture

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 97 (2013), pp. 1268-1342
Number of pages: 75 Posted: 19 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2013
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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targeted killings, duty to capture, military necessity, necessity, IHL, LOAC, Lieber Code, Francis Lieber

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On the Very Idea of Transitional Justice

Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 51-68, 2007
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Sep 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Transitional justice, international criminal law, international criminal justice, collective peace and security, ICC, genocide, reconciliation

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Is Jus in Bello in Crisis?

Journal of International Criminal Justice (Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-07
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 28 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 18 Feb 2013
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Drones, Targeted Killings, IHL, Jus in Bello, International Humanitarian Law, targeting, armed conflicts, non-state actors, proportionality

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Proportional Sentences at the ICTY

THE LEGACY OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA, Bert Swart, Göran Sluiter, Alexander Zahar, eds., Oxford University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 18 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 15 Feb 2011
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Sentencing, Proportionality, ICTY, War Crimes, Rule of Law

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Joint Intentions to Commit International Crimes

Chicago Journal of International Law , Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 693-753, 2011
Number of pages: 61 Posted: 08 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2011
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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JCE, joint criminal enterprise, joint intentions, co-perpetration, control, vicarious liability, Bratman

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Co-Perpetration: German Dogmatik or German Invasion?

The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court: A Critical Account of Challenges and Achievements, Carsten Stahn ed., Oxford University Press, 2015, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-07
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 09 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 04 Jun 2015
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Co-Perpetration, Control Theory, Organisationsherrschaft, Collective Responsibility, Indirect Perpetration, Indirect Co-Perpetration, Roxin

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Towards a Unique Theory of International Criminal Sentencing

INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL PROCEDURE: TOWARDS A COHERENT BODY OF LAW, G. Sluiter & S. Vasiliev, eds., 2009
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 17 Sep 2009
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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rehabilitation, retribution, retributive, retributivism, deterrence, punishment, genocide, ICTY, ICTR, ICC, sentencing guidelines

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Targeting and the Concept of Intent

35 Michigan Journal of International Law 79-130 (2013), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-89
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 12 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 04 May 2016
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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IHL, targeting, intent, recklessness, dolus eventualis, knowledge, Doctrine of Double Effect

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Assessing the Control-Theory

Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 26, Issue 3, Forthcoming, VU University Amsterdam Legal Studies Paper Series
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 10 Jun 2013
Jens David Ohlin, Elies van Sliedregt and Thomas Weigend
Cornell University - School of Law, Centre for Criminal Justice Studies, School of Law and University of Cologne
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ICC, Lubanga case, Katanga case, control-theory, joint perpetration, indirect co-perpetration, hierarchy of blameworthiness

16.

Nash Equilibrium and International Law

Cornell Law Review, Vol. 96, pp. 869-900, 2011, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-20
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2011
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Nash Equilibrium, International Law, Gauthier, Constrained Maximizers, Rational Choice, Prisoner's Dilemma

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Is the Concept of the Person Necessary for Human Rights?

Columbia Law Review, Vol. 105, p. 209, 2005
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Aug 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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personhood, persons, personal identity, concept of the person, human rights, cluster concept, rational agent, human being

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Targeting Co-Belligerents

TARGETED KILLINGS: LAW & MORALITY IN AN ASYMMETRICAL WORLD, Claire Finkelstein, Jens David Ohlin, Andrew Altman, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 15 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2011
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Targeted Killing, International Humanitarian Law, IHL, Membership, Functional Membership, Directly Participating In Hostilities, Continuous Combat Function, Terrorism, War on Terror, Non-International Armed Conflict

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Peace, Security, and Prosecutorial Discretion

THE EMERGING PRACTICE OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT, C. Stahn & G. Sluiter, eds., 2008
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 15 Sep 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Recapturing the Concept of Necessity

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-90
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 10 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Necessity, Law of Armed Conflict, International Humanitarian Law, LOAC, IHL, Francis Lieber, Lieber Code, capture, Geneva Conventions

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Group Think: The Law of Conspiracy and Collective Reason

Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol. 98, No. 1, pp. 147-206, 2007
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 03 Sep 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Conspiracy, Pinkerton, vicarious liability, collective reason, collective action, deliberation, collective intention, foreseeable consequences, culpability

22.

The Right to Punishment for International Crimes

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-31
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 04 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 24 Apr 2018
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Punishment, Torture, Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights, Proportionality

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Applying the Death Penalty to Crimes of Genocide

American Journal of International Law, Vol. 99, p. 747, 2005
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 01 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 01 Mar 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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genocide, death penalty, capital punishment, customary international law, human rights

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Pandemics, Quarantines, Utility, and Dignity

Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-27, Michigan State Law Review, Vol. 2021, 2021
Number of pages: 57 Posted: 04 May 2020 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2021
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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quarantine; dignity; human dignity; utilitarianism; deontology; public health

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The Doctrine of Legitimate Defense

91 International Law Studies 119-154 (2015), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-12
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 14 Mar 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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legitimate defense, self-defense, defense of others, humanitarian intervention, jus ad bellum, armed conflict

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A Meta-Theory of International Criminal Procedure: Vindicating the Rule of Law

UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. 14, pp. 77-120, 2009
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 05 Apr 2010
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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criminal procedure, international criminal procedure, international criminal law, Rule of Law, impunity, legality

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Acting as a Sovereign Versus Acting as a Belligerent

THEORETICAL BOUNDARIES OF ARMED CONFLICT AND HUMAN RIGHTS, edited by Jens David Ohlin (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-21
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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International Humanitarian Law, IHL, human rights, targeted killing, belligerency, sovereignty, detention, spatial control, personal control, ECHR, law of occupation

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Organizational Criminality

PLURALISM IN INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW, edited by Elies van Sliedregt (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-60
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 29 Sep 2012 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Organizational Liability, Roxin, Control Theory, JCE, Joint Criminal Enterprise, Conspiracy, Indirect Perpetration, Co-Perpetration, Organisationsherrschaft

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Second-Order Linking Principles: Combining Vertical and Horizontal Modes of Liability

25 Leiden Journal of International Law (2012), pp. 771-797
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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ICC, ICTY, JCE, Joint Criminal Enterprise, Co-Perpetration, Indirect Perpetration, Indirect Co-Perpetration, Roxin, Control Theory

30.

The Right to Exist and the Right to Resist

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 13 May 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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self-determination, self-defense, genocide, natural rights, collective rights, nations, peoples

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Joint Criminal Confusion

New Criminal Law Review, Vol. 12, pp. 406-419, 2009
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 18 Dec 2011
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Rome Statute, Article 25, Complicity, JCE, Joint Criminal Enterprise, Conspiracy

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The Combatant's Stance: Autonomous Weapons on the Battlefield

92 International Law Studies 1-30 (2016), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-12
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 27 Jan 2016 Last Revised: 29 Mar 2016
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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AWS, Autonomous Weapons, Internatonal Humanitarian Law, indirect perpetration, command responsibility, recklessness, behavior interpretation, Organisationsherrschaft

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Cyber-Causation

CYBERWAR: LAW & ETHICS FOR VIRTUAL CONFLICTS, Jens David Ohlin, Claire Finkelstein, and Kevin Govern, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Aug 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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cyberwar, causation, cyber-attacks, manifest criminality

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Justice after War

Oxford Handbook of the Ethics of War, edited by Helen Frowe & Seth Lazar (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming) , Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-04
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 30 Nov 2014 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2015
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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international criminal law, impunity, anti-impunity norm, jus post bellum, international criminal procedure, punishment, retributivism

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Remoteness and Reciprocal Risk

Research Handbook on Remote Warfare, edited by Jens David Ohlin (Edward Elgar Press, Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-24
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 22 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 29 Jul 2016
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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targeted killings, drones, cyber, cyberwar, AWS, Autonomous Weapon Systems, chivalry, reciprocal risk, Law of Armed Conflict

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In Praise of Jus Cogens' Conceptual Incoherence

McGill Law Journal, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-46
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2018
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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jus cogens, positivism, natural law, naturalism, human rights

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The Common Law of War

58 William & Mary Law Review 493-533 (2016), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-15
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 18 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 23 Dec 2016
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Common Law of War, Common Law, Lieber Code, Francis Lieber, Vattel, Natural Law, Quirin, Conspiracy, Non-State Actors

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#Genocide: Atrocity as Pretext and Disinformation

Virginia Journal of International Law, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 15 Sep 2022
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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genocide, disinformation, misinformation, use of force, pretext

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The Changing Market for Criminal Law Casebooks

Michigan Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 6, 2016, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 16-13
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Apr 2016 Last Revised: 11 May 2016
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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criminal law, casebooks, law school pedagogy, criminal law theory, strategy, rape

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The One or the Many

Criminal Law & Philosophy, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-88
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Apr 2013
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Collective responsibility, moral responsibility, collective action, organizational liability, Organisationsherrschaft, Principle of Charity, Donald Davidson, Doctrinal Paradox, Discursive Dilemma, Joint Intentions

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The Crime of Bootstrapping

THE CRIME OF AGGRESSION: A COMMENTARY, edited by Claus Kress & Stefan Barriga (Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-13
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Apr 2015 Last Revised: 10 Nov 2015
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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aggression, jus ad bellum, international humanitarian law, ICC, actio libera in causa, criminal law

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Sharp Wars are Brief

Weighing Lives in War: Combatants and Civilians, edited by Jens David Ohlin, Larry May, and Claire Finkelstein (Oxford University Press, Forthcoming), Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 17-13
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Mar 2017 Last Revised: 27 Mar 2017
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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laws of war, necessity, military necessity, Lieber, Lieber Code, combatants, civilians, international humanitarian law

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Searching for the Hinterman: In Praise of Subjective Theories of Imputation

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Forthcoming, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 14-11
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 21 Mar 2014
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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Control Theory, Roxin, Perpetration, ICC, dolus eventualis, recklessness, Joint Intentions, Shared Intentions

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Personal Identity Without Persons

Number of pages: 246 Posted: 27 Dec 2017
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law
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personal identity, personhood, persons, agency, moral rights, Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons, thought experiments

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The Bounds of Necessity

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 6, Issue 2, pp. 289-308, 2008
Posted: 09 Jul 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law

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Three Conceptual Problems with the Doctrine of Joint Criminal Enterprise

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 5, Issue 1, pp. 69-90, 2007
Posted: 18 Jun 2008
Jens David Ohlin
Cornell University - School of Law

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The Icc - Two Courts in One?

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 4, Issue 3, pp. 428-433, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
Columbia Law School and Cornell University - School of Law

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Reclaiming Fundamental Principles of Criminal Law in the Darfur Case

Journal of International Criminal Justice, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp. 539-561, 2005
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
George P. Fletcher and Jens David Ohlin
Columbia Law School and Cornell University - School of Law

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