American immunity : war crimes and the limits of international law / / Patrick Hagopian
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| Autore: |
Hagopian Patrick
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| Titolo: |
American immunity : war crimes and the limits of international law / / Patrick Hagopian
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| Pubblicazione: | Amherst, [Massachusetts] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : University of Massachusetts Press, , 2013 |
| ©2013 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (260 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 341.6/90973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Veterans - Legal status, laws, etc - United States |
| Retired military personnel - Legal status, laws, etc - United States | |
| Military privileges and immunities - United States | |
| War crimes - History | |
| My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968 | |
| Vietnam War, 1961-1975 - Atrocities | |
| Note generali: | Includes index. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | "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." |
| Titolo autorizzato: | American immunity |
| ISBN: | 1-61376-284-4 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910788484603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Culture, politics, and the cold war.