Lawfare

Here are entered works on the use of legal methods to damage an opponent, usually with the intent of winning a political or public relations battle.

found: Work cat: 2016035872: Goldstein, Larry M. A table against mine enemies : Israel on the lawfare front, 2017.

found: 2015018044: Hasain, Marouf Arif. Drone warfare and lawfare in a post-heroic age, 2016.

found: Wikipedia, viewed Aug. 4, 2016("recently coined word ... a portmanteau of the words law and warfare, said to describe a form of asymmetric warfare ... Lawfare is asserted by some to be the illegitimate use of domestic or international law with the intention of damaging an opponent, winning a public relations victory, financially crippling an opponent, or tying up the opponent's time ... similar to a SLAPP (strategic lawsuit against public participation) lawsuit... Origin of the term ... Charles J. Dunlap, Jr.'s 2001 essay authored for Harvard's Carr Center... In that essay, Dunlap defines lawfare as "the use of law as a weapon of war"); Wikipedia (Spanish)used term "Guerra juridical".

found: Tiefenbrun, S. Semiotic Definition of Lawfare in Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Volume 43 | Issue 1, 2010("―Lawfare" is a weapon designed to destroy the enemy by using, misusing, and abusing the legal system and the media in order to raise a public outcry against that enemy")

found: Kittrie, Orde F. Lawfare: Law as a Weapon of War via Oxford University Press web site, Sept. 7, 2016(Summary: Analyzes the deployment and impact of "lawfare" -- the use of law as a substitute for armed force to accomplish international security objectives; Examines the increasingly large role played in lawfare by private sector and other non-governmental attorneys ;Illustrates the concept with real-world examples of lawfare use by the U.S., China, Iran, Israel, the Palestinian Authority, and several non-governmental organizations and individuals)

found: Mondoweiss web site, Sept. 7, 2016(Pro-Israel groups declare 'lawfare' on BDS movement in Canada: Groups closely aligned with the far-right Israeli government have declared "lawfare" on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Canada. Lawfare, as it is commonly known, is the use of legal methods and the courts to damage an opponent, usually with the intent of winning a political or public-relations battle)

notfound: OED online;Enc.Brit. online; Black's;Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law

Here are entered works on the use of legal methods to damage an opponent, usually with the intent of winning a political or public relations battle.