American immunity : war crimes and the limits of international law / Patrick Hagopian.
2013
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Author
Title
American immunity : war crimes and the limits of international law / Patrick Hagopian.
Published
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Call Number
KF7745 .H34 2013
ISBN
9781625340467 (hbk. : alk. paper)
162534046X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781625340474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1625340478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
162534046X (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781625340474 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1625340478 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
viii, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)844729412
Summary
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."--pub. desc.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-235) and index.
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
vii
Introduction: The American Exemption
1
1.
"A Very Simple Provision": The Uniform Code of Military Justice and the Jurisdictional Gap
14
2.
"Treaty Law" and "Murdering Wives": The Widening of the Jurisdictional Gap
27
3.
"A Very Undesirable Situation": Sam Ervin and the Constitutional Rights Subcommittee
48
4.
"Uncharted Legal Waters": The My Lai Massacre and the Jordan Memorandum
66
5.
A "Tragedy of Major Proportions": The Peers Inquiry and the House Subcommittee Report
85
6.
"Inexcusable and Terrible": The Calley Conviction and the Abandonment of the Effort to Try the My Lai Veterans
97
7.
"Why Can't We Just Shoot Them All?": MEJA and the First Prosecutions in Federal District Courts
123
Conclusion: "The One Significant Holdout"
152
Abbreviations
165
Notes
167
Index
237