• 1: David Rodin and Henry Shue: Introduction


• 2: Jeff McMahan: The Morality of War and the Law of War


• 3: David Rodin: The Moral Inequality of Soldiers: Why Jus in Bello Asymmetry is Half Right


• 4: Christopher Kutz: Fearful Symmetry


• 5: Henry Shue: Do We Need a "Morality of War"?


• 6: Judith Lichtenberg: How to Judge Soldiers Whose Cause in Unjust


• 7: Cheyney Ryan: Moral equality, victimhood and the sovereignty symmetry problem


• 8: Tony Coady: The Status of Combatants


• 9: Anthony Coates: Is the Independent Application of Jus in Bello the way to Limit War?


• 10: Gregory Reichberg: Just War and Regular War: Competing Paradigms


• 11: Dan Zupan: A Presumption of the Moral Equality of Combatants: a Citizen Soldier' Perspective


• 12: Adam Roberts: The Principle of Equal Application of the Laws of War

David Rodin is Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Changing Character of War Program, University of Oxford, and Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, the Australian National University. His research covers a wide range of topics in moral philosophy including the ethics of war and conflict, business ethics, and international justice. His is the author of War and Self-Defense (OUP 2002), which was awarded the American Philosophical Association Sharp Prize, and is co-editor of The Ethics of War: Shared Problems in Different Traditions (Ashgate, 2006), and of Preemption (OUP 2007).
Henry Shue is Senior Research Fellow Emeritus at Merton College, Oxford; from 2002-2007 he was Professor of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford. Best known for Basic Rights (Princeton, 1980; 2nd Ed., 1996), he has written a number of highly influential articles including "Torture" (1978), "Exporting Hazards" (1981), "Mediating Duties" (1988), "Subsistence Emissions and Luxury Emissions" (1993), "War" (2003), and "Limiting Sovereignty" (2004). He continues to write on the ethical aspects of climate change and war, with a book called Limiting War currently in progress.

Can a soldier be held responsible for fighting in a war that is illegal or unjust? The chapters in the book both challenge and defend many deeply held assumptions: about the liability of soldiers for crimes of aggression, about the nature and justifiability of terrorism, about the relationship between law and morality.