Abstract
Abstract This chapter begins by tracing the historical sources of the principle of proportionality since antiquity. It then presents three possible justifications for this principle. First, the chapter discusses the Just War tradition of proportionality. It then moves on to explain why a utilitarian or rational view of IHL would also support the principle of proportionality. Next, the chapter discusses a justification for the principle of proportionality under the theory of IHL as a mode of societal and political control. The last part of the chapter places the discussion of proportionality in IHL in the wider context of the principle of proportionality as a general principle in constitutional and administrative law.
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