American immunity
Subtitle: war crimes and the limits of international law
By: Patrick Hagopian
Series: Culture, politics, and the cold war; Culture, politics, and the cold war
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9781625340467; 9781625340474
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: War crimes; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; My Lai Massacre, Vietnam, 1968; Retired military personnel; Military privileges and immunities; Veterans; Atrocities; Legal status, laws; History
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-244) and index.
Table of contents: title: "A very simple provision" : the uniform code of military justice and the jurisdictional gap; title: "Treaty law" and "murdering wives" : the widening of the jurisdictional gap; title: "A very undesirable situation" : Sam Ervin and the constitutional rights subcommittee; title: "Uncharted legal waters" : the My Lai Massacre and the Jordan memorandum; title: A "tragedy of major proportions" : the peers inquiry and the house subcommittee report; title: "Inexcusable and terrible" : the Calley Conviction and the abandonment of the effort to try the My Lai veterans; title: "Why can't we just shoot them all?" : MEJA and the first prosecutions in federal district courts; title: Conclusion. "The one significant holdout."