American Immunity: War Crimes and the Limits of International Law

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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 “This page intentionally left blank” ...