Total War And The Law

Author : Daniel R. Ernst
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Total War and the Law written by Daniel R. Ernst and published by Praeger. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now, more than ever, we need to avoid nostalgia in thinking about the Good War. This collection of essays reveals some of the challenges that Americans' commitment to the rule of law faced during the Second World War. As a total war, World War II required an unprecedented mobilization of society and growth of the federal government. The American state survived as a government of laws, not men, but in a very different form than its prewar counterpart. Using examples from the war era, this study demonstrates that major wars can imperil and transform one of our most deeply held values, the notion that public officials are constructed by law. As a result of total war, the political landscape changed, and, with it, Americans' notions of what law could do. Supreme Court justices endangered their reputation as being above politics through their behind-the-scenes relations with FDR, and in several important constitutional decisions they relinquished the judicial supremacy that many Americans had considered a crucial safeguard of freedom. The national government's power to tax was dramatically expanded in ways that left tax resistors looking like cranks rather than freedom fighters. When New Dealers tried to realize the potential of law as a vehicle of social organization, they fell prey to conservative rivals in the federal bureaucracy and Congress, but this defeat did nothing to slow the overall expansion of the administrative state, which continued under the formal oversight of the federal judiciary.

Author : William H. Boothby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108427588
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Law of War written by William H. Boothby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed and highly authoritative critical commentary appraising the vitally important United States Department of Defense Law of War Manual.

Author : Edward Samuel Corwin
Publisher : Books for Libraries
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Total War and the Constitution written by Edward Samuel Corwin and published by Books for Libraries. This book was released on 1970 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the disputes over the interpretation of the Constitution during World War II, the effects of the war on national government and constitutional rights and the aftereffects of the war.

Author : Michael Byers
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 155584846X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Law written by Michael Byers and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Professor Byers’s book goes to the heart of some of the most bitterly contested recent controversies about the International Rule of Law.” —Chris Patten, Chancellor of Oxford University International law governing the use of military force has been the subject of intense public debate. Under what conditions is it appropriate, or necessary, for a country to use force when diplomacy has failed? Michael Byers, a widely known world expert on international law, weighs these issues in War Law. Byers examines the history of armed conflict and international law through a series of case studies of past conflicts, ranging from the 1837 Caroline Incident to the abuse of detainees by US forces at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Byers explores the legal controversies that surrounded the 1999 and 2001 interventions in Kosovo and Afghanistan and the 2003 war in Iraq; the development of international humanitarian law from the 1859 Battle of Solferino to the present; and the role of war crimes tribunals and the International Criminal Court. He also considers the unique influence of the United States in the evolution of this extremely controversial area of international law. War Law is neither a textbook nor a treatise, but a fascinating account of a highly controversial topic that is necessary reading for fans of military history and general readers alike. “Should be read, and pondered, by those who are seriously concerned with the legacy we will leave to future generations.” —Noam Chomsky

Author : Peter H. Maguire
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231146477
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and War written by Peter H. Maguire and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a revised edition of Law and war : an American story [published in 2000]."--T.p. verso.

Author : Brian Elsesser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swords in the Balance written by Brian Elsesser and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael Howard
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300070620
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Laws of War written by Michael Howard and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores not only the formal constraints on the conduct of war throughout Western history but also the unwritten conventions about what is permissible in the course of military operations. Ranging from classical antiquity to the present, eminent historians discuss the legal and cultural regulation of violence in such areas as belligerent rights, the treatment of prisoners and civilians, the observing of truces and immunities, the use of particular weapons, siege warfare, codes of honor, and war crimes. The book begins with a general overview of the subject by Michael Howard. The contributors then discuss the formal and informal constraints on conducting war as they existed in classical antiquity, the age of chivalry, early modern Europe, colonial America, and the age of Napoleon. They also examine how these constraints have been applied to wars at sea, on land, and in the air, planning for nuclear war, and national liberation struggles, in which one of the participants is not an organized state. The book concludes with reflections by Paul Kennedy and George Andreopoulos on the main challenges facing the quest for humanitarian norms in warfare in the future.

Author : Adam Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780198256571
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Documents on the Laws of War written by Adam Roberts and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first edition of this book became a standard work in the field, and it has been extensively revised and updated for the second edition. It is prepared with assistance from the official Depositaries of the various international agreements, and is an essential reference book for statesmen and diplomats, lawyers, journalists, and students of international relations and law. From reviews of the first edition: `Roberts and Guelff rely on the documents to speak for themselves, and are right to do so. Their becoming generally available in this neat and usable form is an event of much importance for all who take a serious interest in humanitarian law and endeavour, and the limitation of men's violence towards men.'New Society

Author : Joshua E. Kastenberg
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781032098012
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In a Time of Total War written by Joshua E. Kastenberg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954. As such, it is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War. Kastenberg and Merriam present a clearer picture as to why the Court and the lower courts determined the issues before them in terms of external influences from both natio

Author : Roger Chickering
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521834322
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A World at Total War written by Roger Chickering and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the results of a conference on the history of total war.