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Extraordinary justice : military tribunals in historical and international context /

The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001, aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or "commissions" for the trial of accused terrorists. The Supreme Court has weighed in on the topic...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Richards, Peter Judson
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New York : New York University Press, ©2007.
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Table des matières:
  • American practices from the founding through the Civil War
  • British military tribunals and martial law in the Boer War
  • France and the Conseils de Guerre of the First World War
  • Trials by military commission in the Second World War
  • Wartime tribunals and the future of warfare.