This book began with a conference in Washington, D.C. on November 8, 2013, co-sponsored by the Legal Theory Interest Group of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the Berger Program International Fund of Cornell Law School --Acknowledgments.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : the inescapable collision / Jens David Ohlin -- Laws for War / Adil Ahmad Haque -- Human rights thinking and the laws of War / David Luban -- The lost origins of Lex Specialis : rethinking the relationship between Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law / Marko Milanovic -- Acting as a Sovereign versus acting as a belligerent / Jens David Ohlin -- Ending the Global War : the power of human rights in a time of unrestrained armed conflict / Jonathan Horowitz -- Folk International Law : 9/11 lawyering and the transformation of the law of armed conflict to human rights policy and human rights law to war governance / Naz K. Modirzadeh -- The use and abuse of analogy in IHL / Kevin Jon Heller -- Forcible alternatives to War : legitimate violence in 21st century international relations / Jania Dill -- Whither International martial law? : Human rights as sword and shield in ineffectively governed territory / John C. Dehn -- The next Geneva Convention : filling a law-of-war gap with human rights values / Brian Orend.