Following discussions in relation to the legality of the armed conflict in Gaza and the alleged violations of international law by the two belligerents (see here, here and here), some of you might find Professor Sloane’s recent paper, titled “The Cost of Conflation: Preserving the Dualism of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello in the Contemporary Law of War”, just published in Yale Journal of International Law, interesting. In it, Professor Sloane deals with the influence that the legality of a jus ad bellum decision has on the judgement of the legality of jus in bello actions. For instance,…