“War by Agreement is the only serious book-length account and defence of contractarian just war theory. It has appeared at a critical inflection point in the development of just war theory. Scholars have grappled with the question whether and how the moral status of a war relates to the moral permissibility of conduct in war since the medieval beginnings of just war theory. In the last twenty years, the just war tradition has witnessed an extraordinary revival in Anglophone academic philosophy with theorists developing individualist accounts of the morality of war modelled on the morality of killing in general. In this revisionist view, the moral rights and duties of soldiers, both vis-à-vis enemy soldiers and civilians, are dependent on the moral status of the war.” – Introduction to the Symposium on War By Agreement by Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman

Articles featured in this special issue of Law and Philosophy:

• Introduction to the Symposium on War By Agreement by Yitzhak Benbaji and Daniel Statman (Janina Dill & Cécile Fabre)

• If You Care About a Rule, Why Weaken Its Enforcement Dimension? On a Tension in the War Convention (Susanne Burri)

• Rights and Rules: Revisionism, Contractarianism, and the Laws of War (Linda Eggert)

• Ethics, Force, and Power: On the Political Preconditions of Just War (Christopher J. Finlay)

• How Resilient is the War Contract? (Gerald Lang)

• Disagreement by War (Arthur Ripstein)

• Response to Five Critics (Yitzhak Benbaji & Daniel Statman)