International Law & Conduct of War*
International Law & Conduct of War*
Tom Dannenbaum and Janina Dill, 2026. Incidenatlity and the Concept of Military Objective in IHL, with Tom Dannenbaum (research in progress)
Tom Dannenbaum and Janina Dill, 2025. Yet Again: The U.K. Government Mischaracterizes Its Obligation to Prevent Genocide in Gaza, with Tom Dannenbaum, Just Security.
Tom Dannenbaum and Janina Dill. 2024. International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent and Provisional Measures, American Journal of International Law, Vo. 118 (4), pp. 659-683.
Janina Dill, 2024. There is only one Morally, Legally and Strategically Defensible Choice: An Arms Embargo (deutsch), Interview on Verfassungblog.
Janina Dill, 2024. No Peace for the Dead: Legal Questions about Israel's destruction of cemeteries in Gaza, EJIL Talk!
Janina Dill, 2024. Top Legal Experts Views on International Court of Justice Ruling on Israel Gaza Operations (South Africa v. Israel genocide Convention Case), Just Security.
Janina Dill, 2023. Top Legal Experts on Why Aid to Gaza Can't Be Conditioned on Hostage Release, in response to remarks by US Official (one of six expert comments), Just Security.
Janina Dill, 2023. Law and Survival in Israel and Palestine, Just Security.
Janina Dill, 2023. Our Shared Horror, EJIL:Talk!
Ziv Bohrer, Janina Dill and Helen Duffy, 2020. Law Applicable to Armed Conflict, Cambridge University Press.
Janina Dill, 2019. Do Attackers have a Legal Duty of Care? Limits to the 'Individualisation of War', International Theory, Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1-25 (Full Text).
Janina Dill, 2019. General Comment 36: A Missed Opportunity? Just Security.
Janina Dill, 2018. The Rights and Obligations of Parties to International Armed Conflicts: From Bilateralism but not Towards Community Interest? in: Eyal Benvenisti and George Notle (eds.) Community Interests Across International Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
Janina Dill, 2018. What is the Problem with the Principle of Proportionality? Proceedings of the Bruges Colloquium, Vol. 49, pp. 119.126.
Janina Dill, 2017. Abuse of Law on the 21st Century Battlefield: A Typology of Lawfare, in: Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels (eds.) Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press) (Full Text).
Janina Dill, 2016. The DoD Law of War Manual and the False Appeal of Differentiating Types of Civilians, Just Security.
Janina Dill, 2016. Assessing Proportionality: An Unreasonable Demand on the Reasonable Military Commander? Intercross, EJIL Talk! and Lawfare
Janina Dill, 2015. Proportionate Collateral Damage and Why We Should Care What Civilians Think, Just Security
Janina Dill, 2015. The 21st Century Belligerent’s Trilemma, European Journal of International Law, Vol. 26 (1), pp. 83–108 (Full Text).
Janina Dill, 2015. Legitimate Targets? International Law, Social Construction and US Bombing, Cambridge University Press.
Janina Dill, 2014. Israel's Use of Law and Warnings in Gaza, Opinio Juris.
Janina Dill, 2014. Interpretive Complexity and the Principle of Proportionality, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Int. Law, Vol. 108, pp. 82-105.
Janina Dill, 2014. The American Way of Bombing and International Law: Two Logics of Warfare in Tension, in: Matthew Evangelista and Henry Shue (eds.) The American Way of Bombing: Changing Ethical and Legal Norms, From Flying Fortresses to Drones (Ithaca: Cornell University Press).
Janina Dill, 2010. Applying the Principle of Proportionality in Combat Operations, Policy paper for The Oxford Institute for Ethics and Law of Armed Conflict (ELAC).
Janina Dill, 2009. The Definition of a Legitimate Target of Attack: Not More than a Moral Plea? Proceedings of Annual Meeting of the American Society of International Law, Vol. 103, pp. 229-232.
Janina Dill, 2026. The United States and the Use of Force: Whither the Rule of International Law (working paper)
Janina Dill, 2026. The Illegality of the US Attack Against Venezuela is Beyond Debate: How the World reacts is Critical, University of Oxford Expert Comment.
Janina Dill, 2023. Threats to State Survival as Emergencies in International Law, International Theory, Vol. 15 (2), pp. 155-183 (Full Text).
Tobias Bunde, James W. Davis, Claudia Major, Janina Dill, Héloïse Fayet, Liviu Horovitz, Łukasz Kulesa, Andreas Lutsch, Michal Onderco, Jintro Pauly, Julian Wucherpfennig, 2026. Mind the Deterrence Gap: Assessing Europe's Nuclear Options, Munich Security Conference & European Nuclear Studies Group.
Janina Dill and Scott Sagan, 2025. Special Issue on Law, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons, Security Studies, Vol. 43 (5).
Introduction: Law, Ethics and Nuclear Weapons, pp. 789-797.
Conclusion: The Role of Law in Global Nuclear Politics: Opacity, Deflection, and Potential, pp. 933-949.
Janina Dill and Scott Sagan. 2025. Creeds and Contestation: How U.S. Nuclear and Legal Doctrines Influence Each Other, Security Studies, Vol. 43 (5), pp. 833-867.
Janina Dill, Scott D. Sagan, Benjamin A. Valentino, 2023. Public Opinion and the Nuclear Taboo Across Nations: An Exchange – The Authors Reply, Security Studies, Vol. 31 (1), pp. 195-204.
Janina Dill, 2023. What is the Role of International Law in Preventing the Use of Nuclear Weapons, Specifically by Russia against Ukraine? Perry World House.
Janina Dill, Scott Sagan, Benjamin Valentino, 2022. A Kettle of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Non-Combatant Immunity in the UnitedStates, United Kingdom, France, and Israel, Security Studies, Vol. 31 (1), pp. 1-31.
Janina Dill, 2026. Marnie Howlett, Carl Müller-Crepon, and Mara Revkin, Resistance, Collaboration, and Ethnic Bias: Evidence on Social Cohesion in Wartime Ukraine (working paper).
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon, 2025. Ukraine will not Surrender to Russia, Foreign Affairs.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon. 2026. Do Ukrainians Still Prefer Self-Defense at Any Cost? Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 63 (2), pp. 269–278.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett, Carl Müller-Crepon. 2024. At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 68 (4), pp. 1460-1478.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon, Ukrainians are not Willing to Give up Territory, The Conversation.
Janina Dill, 2022. The Moral Muddle of Blaming the West for Russia's Aggression, Public Ethics.
Janina Dill, Spyros Kosmidis, Anette Stimmer. 2026. Norms as Second-Order Beliefs: How Normative Beliefs Shape U.S. Support for Humanitarian Intervtion, Global Studies Quarterly, accepted.
Janina Dill, 2026. Greeted as Liberators? How Americans Think About U.S. Military Intervention, Foreign Affairs.
Janina Dill and Benjamin Valentino. 2026. The Weight of the Law: How International Law Affects Foreign Policy Preferences, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 70 (4), online first.
Janina Dill, Emily Meyers and Livia Schubiger. 2026. A Matter of Principle: The Role of Consent in U.S. Support for Military Intervention, International Security, Vol. 50 (3), pp. 55-85.
Janina Dill, Scott Sagan, Benjamin Valentino, 2022. Inconstant Care: Public Attitudes towards Force Protection and Civilian Casualties in the United States, United Kingdom and Israel, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 67(4) 587–616.
Janina Dill, Scott Sagan, Benjamin Valentino, 2022. A Kettle of Hawks: Public Opinion on the Nuclear Taboo and Non-Combatant Immunity in the UnitedStates, United Kingdom, France, and Israel, Security Studies, Vol. 31 (1), pp. 1-31.
Janina Dill and Livia I. Schubiger, 2021. Attitudes toward the Use of Force: Instrumental Imperatives, Moral Principles and International Law, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 65 (3), pp. 612-633.
Janina Dill and Mara Revkin, 2026. The Moral Logic of Blame for Civilian Casualties: Evidence from Iraq, with Mara Revkin (working paper
Mara Revkin and Janina Dill, 2026. Attitudes toward Condolence Payments in Iraq, with Mara Revkin (research in progress)
Janina Dill, 2026. Marnie Howlett, Carl Müller-Crepon, and Mara Revkin, Resistance, Collaboration, and Ethnic Bias: Evidence on Social Cohesion in Wartime Ukraine (working paper).
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon, 2025. Ukraine will not Surrender to Russia, Foreign Affairs.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon. 2026. Do Ukrainians Still Prefer Self-Defense at Any Cost? Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 63 (2), pp. 269–278.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett, Carl Müller-Crepon. 2024. At Any Cost: How Ukrainians Think about Self-Defense Against Russia, American Journal of Political Science, Vol. 68 (4), pp. 1460-1478.
Janina Dill, Marnie Howlett and Carl Müller-Crepon, Ukrainians are not Willing to Give up Territory, The Conversation.
Janina Dill, 2019. Distinction, Necessity and Proportionality: Afghan Civilians' Attitudes Towards Wartime Harm, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 33 (3), pp. 315-342 (Full Text).
Janina Dill, Mara Revkin, The Construction of Liability: How Civilian Involvement in War Affects Liklihood of Attack (research in progress)
Janina Dill, 2017. Abuse of Law on the 21st Century Battlefield: A Typology of Lawfare, in: Michael L. Gross and Tamar Meisels (eds.) Soft War: The Ethics of Unarmed Conflict (New York: Cambridge University Press) (Full Text).
Janina Dill, 2016. Assessing Proportionality: An Unreasonable Demand on the Reasonable Military Commander? Intercross, EJIL Talk! and Lawfare
Janina Dill, 2015. Legitimate Targets? International Law, Social Construction and US Bombing, Cambridge University Press.
Janina Dill and Cécile Fabre, 2022. Symposium on War by Agreement by Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman, Law and Philosophy, Vol. 41 (Full Text).
Introduction, pp. 663-669.
Janina Dill, 2022. The Moral Muddle of Blaming the West for Russia's Aggression, Public Ethics.
Janina Dill, 2018. Just War Theory in Times of Individual Rights, in: Robyn Eckersley and Chris Brown (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of International Political Theory (Oxford: Oxford University Press) (Full Text).
Janina Dill, 2016. Forcible Alternatives to War: Legitimate Violence in 21st Century International Relations, in: Jens David Ohlin (ed.) Theoretical Boundaries of Armed Conflict and Human Rights (New York: Cambridge University Press).
Janina Dill, 2015. The Informal Regulation of Drones and the Formal Legal Regulation of War, Contribution to the symposium on: Allen Buchanan and Robert O. Keohane, “Toward a Drone Accountability Regime,” Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 29 (1), pp. 51-58.
Janina Dill, 2015. Symposium on Ending Wars, Ethics, Vol. 125 (April).
Introduction: Ending Wars. The Jus ad Bellum Principles Suspended, Repeated or Adjusted?, pp. 627-630.
Janina Dill and Henry Shue, 2013. Limiting Killing in War: Military Necessity and the St Petersburg Assumption, Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 26 (3), pp. 311-334 (Full Text).
Janina Dill, 2012. Should International Law Ensure the Moral Acceptability of War? Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 26 (2), pp. 253-270 (Full Text).
-- discussed on Opinio Juris by Christopher Kutz and Gabriella Blum.
Janina Dill, 2012. International Legal Theory Section on Law and Morality in War, Leiden Journal of International Law, Vol. 26 (2).
*Most work on this page is listed once under the most fitting headding. A few papers are cross-posted since they equally speak to more than one topic