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American immunity : war crimes and the limits of international law / / Patrick Hagopian



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Autore: Hagopian Patrick Visualizza persona
Titolo: American immunity : war crimes and the limits of international law / / Patrick Hagopian Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-61376-284-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910788484603321
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Serie: Culture, politics, and the cold war.