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Aryeh Neier,
President of the Open Society Institute, and former Executive Director of Human Rights Watch
APV Rogers
Author, Law on the Battlefield, Fellow, Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge
Kenneth Roth,
Executive Director, Human Rights Watch, and a former federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York
Professor Michael N. Schmitt,
Director of the Executive Program in International and Security Affairs at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.
Anne-Marie Slaughter,
J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International, Foreign and Comparative Law at Harvard Law School, and currently President of the American Society of International Law


Selected chapters from Crimes of War: What the Public Should Know

Combatant Status
Due Process
Prisoners of War, Non-Repatriation of
Terrorism
Terrorism against Civilians
War Crimes, Categories of

Related Links:

US: Growing Problem of Guantanamo Detainees
Human Rights Watch, May 30, 2002

Terrorism: Crime or War?
Forthcoming Conference in London, June 14, 2002

U.S. Weighing New Doctrine for Tribunals
Neil A. Lewis
The New York Times, April 21, 2002

Detaining Suspects Brings Many Legal Questions
Frank Davies
The Miami Herald, May 9, 2002

Prosecuting al-Qaeda: When Is A Member A Conspirator?
Joanne Mariner
Writ, April 29, 2002

Al-Qaeda Detainees: Don't Prosecute, Don't Release
By Stuart Taylor, Jr.
National Journal/Atlantic Online, April 30, 2002

The Trouble with the Tribunals
Ronald Dworkin
The New York Review of Books, April 25, 2002

Counter-terrorism, Armed Force and the Laws of War
By Adam Roberts, Professor of International Relations, Oxford University.
Social Science Research Council

Pentagon Order on Military Commissions (PDF file)
March 21, 2002

Transcript of a Press Conference given by Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense
March 28, 2002

Human Rights Watch Press Release on Commission Rules
March 21,2002

 

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