Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Military

The sources collected here range widely; Ager presents an exhaustive record of documents ranging from the settlement of a minor territorial squabble between two tiny city-states...

While scholarly, it is written with a clear practical approach, rendering the comprehension easy for any person who needs to understand the laws of armed conflicts.

This book explores these...

The Seventh Edition of the ICE Conditions, published in 1999, introduced a number of changes, including:

? incorporating some of the concepts of the Latham Report

? amending certain provisions of the Sixth Edition which had attracted criticism

? rectifying conspicuous omissions from the text of earlier editions of the contract

? correcting small errors and faults from the previous edition

Although the use of military tribunals can be necessary and even effective in times of war, Louis Fisher contends that these courts present a grave danger to open government and the separation of powers. Citing the constitutional provision vesting Congress with the authority to create tribunals, Fisher addresses the threats posed by the dramatic expansion of presidential power in time of war--and the meek efforts of Congress and the judiciary to curb...

The Al-Qaeda terror attacks of September 11, 2001, aroused a number of extraordinary counter measures in response, including an executive order authorizing the creation of military tribunals or -commissions- for the trial of accused terrorists. The Supreme Court has weighed in on the topic with some controversial and deeply divided decisions, most recently Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

At this critical moment in time, Extraordinary Justice seeks to fill an important gap in our understanding of what military tribunals are, how they function, and how successful they...

This book examines economic analysis relevant to monopoly policy and traces the growth of monopoly policy in the U.S. from its common-law origins to the present as it relates to cartels, market tactics, oligopoly, and labor unions.