Reality thus tragically demonstrates that the essential dividing line in Syria is not between peacetime and wartime but between the law of war and no law at all.
The omnipresent obligations associated with the law are already addressed throughout all phases of military planning and mission execution, by virtue of the DoD Law of War Program, the Law of Armed Conflict, the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and Rules of Engagement.
Greenberg fought in the Army in World War II, got a law degree at New York Law School (not to be confused with New York University School of Law) in 1950 and served in the Army again in the Korean War.
In 1974 a conference was convened in Geneva to rewrite the humanitarian law of war.
The maximum sentence for war crimes under Serbian law is 40 years imprisonment.
The legal basis to detain enemy combatants under the law of war remains the same, meaning they can be held until the end of hostilities.
President Bush's statements even then showed that he thought of the attack, in essence, as an act of war rather than a law enforcement matter.
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United States Armed Forces are detaining in Afghanistan approximately 946 individuals under the Authorization for the Use of Military Force (Public Law 107-40) as informed by the law of war.
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Pressed by the prosecution, Frank said he had seen no reason to believe that anything had been done on purpose by his Marines and that no law of war violation had occurred.
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Our modern concept that war should be governed by law dates from the era.
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Garner and his team face a daunting task which ranges from restoring power and water to establishing the rule of law in the war-shattered country.
It marks the first time since the War Powers Act passed into law 30 years ago that a US President has sent US forces into battle without seeking the permission of the US Congress.
As for Bill Clinton, he was at Yale, studying law and protesting the war.
The present documentation of the laws of war are based on customary international law that has been around for thousands of years.
And I just want to point out -- I know it's something you know -- the International Criminal Court identified Qaddafi as having violated international law, having committed war crimes.
However, Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow in Governance Studies at The Brookings Institution and author of Law and the Long War: The Future of Justice in the Age of Terror, has some reservations.
After serving as a combat infantryman in Europe during World War II, he got a law degree and began his political career in Greenwich Village by winning a district leader race as a liberal Democratic reformer.
Is there a chance, though, that your tying the hands of commanders in war time by putting this into federal law?
Those powers include considerable patronage -- the ability to appoint bishops, government ministers, heads of public bodies and so on -- as well as the power to go to war, sign treaties and change the law through the little-understood Privy Council.
It is bolstered by the view that we are a country comfortable with the rule of law (with a few war on terror exceptions), an absence of rigid class distinctions and discriminations (at least lately), and an underlying tendency to do the right thing when the right thing needs doing (although, as Churchill remarked, often only after exhausting all other alternatives).
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He faces trial in Britain under a law that allows prosecution of alleged war criminals.
Colonel Kumar Lama faces a British trial under a law that allows prosecution of alleged war criminals.
International law is a casualty of this war, which, like Iraq, will need courageous and sustained rebuilding.
It was really a war for equal opportunity and rights under the law.
The Gore team was led by Supreme Court war-horse Laurence Tribe, the Harvard law professor who last week received his 30th souvenir quill from the court, which gives the pens to attorneys who argue before it.
Unless we are prepared to abandon our fundamental values altogether, the rule of law must retain its vitality in war and in peace, even when terrorists topple our buildings into rubble and senselessly murder our citizens in the American homeland.
Passed after America entered World War I, the act is basically the only law prohibiting such leaks, Aftergood said.
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