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53 Tex. Int'l L. J. 239 (2018)
Deadly Ambiguity: IHL's Prohibition on Targeting Civilian Objects and the Risks of Decentered Interpretation

handle is hein.journals/tilj53 and id is 277 raw text is: Deadly Ambiguity: IHL's Prohibition on Targeting Civilian Objects and the Risks of Decentered Interpretation EmILY CHERTOFF & ZACHARY MANFREDI* TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ............................................. 239 ABSTRACT..................................................................... 240 INTRODUCTION ........................................................ ......... 241 I.THE U.S. READING OF ARTICLE 52: EVOLUTIVE PROCESS AND CONTESTED PRECEDENTS ............................................................. 245 A. The Prohibition ofArticle 52 and Customary International Law on Targeting Civilian Objects .......................... .............. 245 B. From War-Fighting to War-Sustaining........................... 249 C. From Customary Law to Treaty Law .................... ....... 254 II.PROBLEMS WITH THE WAR-SUSTAINING INTERPRETATION ......................... 259 A. Historical Objections to the Department ofDefense Interpretation of the Prohibition on Targeting Civilian Objects.. .............................. 259 B. Reversing the Default Rule: How the War-Sustaining Activities Interpretation Undermines Core Principles of IHL......... ................ 262 1. Principle of Distinction .................................. 262 2. Principle of Proportionality. .......................... ..... 263 3. Principle of Humanity ................................... 264 4. Cumulative Effect of the War-Sustaining Interpretation: Reversing the Default Rule of Civilian-Object Immunity from Targeting.............. 265 5. Policy Consequences of the War-Sustaining Activities Interpretation... 266 IJI.IHL RULES UNDERMINED: ASYMMETRIES OF POWER & DE-CENTERED * Emily Chertoff is a 2017 graduate of Yale Law School. Zachary Manfredi is a 2017 graduate of Yale Law School and PhD Candidate in the Department of Rhetoric at UC Berkeley. He is a law clerk for the Honorable Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court. The authors would like to thank Professor Oona Hathaway for her thoughtful comments on an earlier draft and generous mentorship. 239

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