What War Does to Law
Military Industrial Complex at 50 - National Conference, September 2011
University of Toledo Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2012-09
13 Pages Posted: 21 Sep 2011
Date Written: September 20, 2011
Abstract
This is a paper given at the Military Industrial Complex at 50 National Conference which presents the international law and domestic law visions of what the United States has done since 9/11. It points out that international law is unchanged but that the domestic policy, practices and law of the United States have changed. The paper highlights the need to look for the dark matter: the assertion of precedents derived from somber experiences in the American past; the misinterpretation of international law, and the situations where state lethality is derived from state illegality. I suggest the important role of dissent in such parlous times.
Keywords: War, Armed Conflict, Torture, Drones, Seminole Wars, Self-Defense, Law Enforcement, civil rights
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