Ethics, law and justifying targeted killings: the Obama administration at war

This title examines the normative debates around the American use of targeted killings.

It questions whether the Obama administration's defence of its use of targeted killings is cohesive or hypocritical.

In doing so, it departs from the disciplinary purpose of international law, constitutional law and the just war tradition and instead examines discipline-specific defences of targeted killings to identify their requisite normative principles in order to compare these norms across disciplines.