In the name of necessity military tribunals and the loss of American civil liberties / [electronic resource] :
Marouf Hasian, Jr.
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2005.
- viii, 316 p.
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique .
Paperback edition published 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-309) and index.
Introduction : the genealogical origins of necessity and military necessity -- The capture of Major Andre -- Cultural amnesias and legal recollections : forgetting and remembering the 1862 U.S.-Dakota war tribunals -- Abraham Lincoln and ex parte Milligan -- The military trial of Major Henry Wirz -- FDR, wartime anxieties, and the Saboteurs' case -- General MacArthur's tribunal and the trial of General Yamashita -- The legal and public debates over the necessity of Bush's military order -- The future use of military tribunals.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
9780817386603 (electronic bk.)
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry--United States. Civil rights--United States. Necessity (Law)--United States. Military necessity.