Destroying the Caroline: the frontier raid that reshaped the right to war

Abstract

Anyone who has studied (or even just had a passing interest in) the law on the use of force will have come across the hallowed Caroline incident of 1837. It is this famous nineteenth century frontier raid that is the focus of Craig Forcese’s excellent new book, Destroying the Caroline, which was the 2019 winner of the American Society of International Law’s Certificate of Merit for a preeminent contribution to creative scholarship.