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American Immunity : War Crimes and the Limits of International Law /

"In 2000 Congress attempted to close the jurisdictional gap with passage of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. The effectiveness of that legislation is still in question, however, since it remains unclear how willing civilian American juries will be to convict veterans for conduct...

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Autor principal: Hagopian, Patrick (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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490 0 |a Culture, politics, and the cold war 
505 0 |a "A very simple provision" : the uniform code of military justice and the jurisdictional gap -- "Treaty law" and "murdering wives" : the widening of the jurisdictional gap -- "A very undesirable situation" : Sam Ervin and the constitutional rights subcommittee -- "Uncharted legal waters" : the My Lai Massacre and the Jordan memorandum -- A "tragedy of major proportions" : the peers inquiry and the house subcommittee report -- "Inexcusable and terrible" : the Calley Conviction and the abandonment of the effort to try the My Lai veterans -- "Why can't we just shoot them all?" MEJA and the first prosecutions in federal district courts -- Conclusion : "The One Significant Holdout." 
520 |a "In 2000 Congress attempted to close the jurisdictional gap with passage of the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act. The effectiveness of that legislation is still in question, however, since it remains unclear how willing civilian American juries will be to convict veterans for conduct in foreign war zones."--Publisher description. 
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650 7 |a Military privileges and immunities.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst01021410 
650 7 |a Atrocities.  |2 fast  |0 (OCoLC)fst00820727 
650 7 |a LAW  |x International.  |2 bisacsh 
650 6 |a Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975  |x Atrocites. 
650 6 |a Massacre de My Laï, Viêt-nam, 1968. 
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