'Guns for Hire, Death on Demand': The Permissibility of U.S. Outsourcing of Drone Attacks to Civilian Surrogates of the Armed Forces and Challenges to Traditional Just War Theory

60 Pages Posted: 20 Oct 2013 Last revised: 3 Jul 2014

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Kevin H. Govern

Ave Maria University - Ave Maria School of Law

Scott Schlager

University of Pennsylvania; Suffolk University Law School

Date Written: 2013

Abstract

Assassinations and licit targeted killings - distinctions with a difference?

Guns for hire: the history of private military firms and private military corporations as distinct entities and not just mercenaries by another name.

Authority and liability of civilian operatives under just war theory, international law, and domestic law.

Keywords: Asssassination, Targeted Killing, Private Military Firms, PMFs, Private Military Corporations, PMCs, Mercenaries, Operator, Operative, Military, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, Just War, International Law, Domestic Law

JEL Classification: H56

Suggested Citation

Govern, Kevin H. and Schlager, Scott, 'Guns for Hire, Death on Demand': The Permissibility of U.S. Outsourcing of Drone Attacks to Civilian Surrogates of the Armed Forces and Challenges to Traditional Just War Theory (2013). Florida Journal of International Law, Vol. XXV, No. 2, 2013, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2341756

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Scott Schlager

University of Pennsylvania ( email )

Philadelphia, PA 19104
United States

Suffolk University Law School ( email )

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Boston, MA 02108-4977
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