"I have questioned the legal basis for the use of drones.
But there is widespread confusion over the legal basis for the use of force in these terrible circumstances.
The revival argument was also the basis for the use of force in December 1998 by the US and UK (Operation Desert Fox).
There is no moral basis for the use of lethal force against peaceable women, men and children, including victims of torture, and those fleeing persecution and war.
Those rules have provided a legal basis for the use of harsh interrogation techniques, including the water-boarding tactic used against Mr. Mohammed.
4. The use of force to avert overwhelming humanitarian catastrophe has been emerging as a further, and exceptional, basis for the use of force.
During the time of Kahn's first studies, the mathematician Olaf Helmer, also at RAND, proposed a theoretical basis for the use of expert opinion in forecasting.
The research also says nothing about whether there is any basis for the use of copper bracelets to relieve the symptoms of arthritis.
Three days before the first US missiles hit Baghdad, Lord Goldsmith, the attorney general, answered a question in the Lords on the legal basis for the use of military force.
Scott said the increase in stop and search disproportionality showed that police intelligence, the supposed basis for the use of stop and search in London, unfairly targeted black youths while letting suspects from other communities off the hook.
"This statutory authorization is the last word on the domestic legal basis for the use of force in Iraq," said Prof. Peter Raven-Hansen of the George Washington University Law School.
