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Terrorism, Miranda, and related matters

Doyle, Charles, author

[Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2018-

The Military Commissions Act of 2009 (MCA 2009) : overview and legal issues

Elsea, Jennifer, author

[Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2019-

Comparison of rights in military commission trials and trials in federal criminal court

Elsea, Jennifer, author

[Washington, D.C.] : Congressional Research Service, 2019-

Measuring the Effectiveness of the Proposal to Divest Military Commanders of Disposition Authority for Sexual Assault Cases: A Comparative Quantitative Analysis

Cox, Brian L.

As suggestions to modify the practice of the U.S. military justice system return to the fore of American political discourse, the perennial proposal to divest commanders of authority to convene courts-martial to adjudicate allegations of sexual assault is once again at the…

Published in Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository.

The Orwellian Military Commissions Act of 2006

Dorf, Michael C.

In three decisions in 2004 and 2006, the Supreme Court of the United States rejected the sweeping claims by President Bush that his role as Commander in Chief entitled him to detain persons indefinitely and, if he chose, to subject them to war crimes trials before military…

Published in Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository.

Bringing Comfort to the Enemy: The Past, Present, and Future of Habeas Corpus Petitions in Light of the Formalistic Application of Boumediene

Overbey, E. Carlisle

Such trials would hamper the war effort and bring aid and comfort to the enemy. effective fettering of a field commander than to allow the very enemies he is ordered to reduce to submission to call him to account in his own civil courts and divert his efforts and attention from…

Published in Scholarship@Cornell Law: A Digital Repository.