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Introductory Remarks by David Sloss

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

David Sloss*
Affiliation:
Saint Louis University School of Law

Abstract

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Type
Executive Power in Wartime
Copyright
Copyright © The American Society of International Law 2005

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References

1 Memorandum from Donald Rumsfeld, , Secretary of Defense, to the Commander,U.S. Southern Command(Apr.16, 2003)Google Scholar,reprinted in the Torture Papers : the Road to Abu Ghraib 360 (Karen J. Greenberg & Joshua L.Dratel eds., 2005).

2 Working Group Report on Detainee Interrogations in the Global War on Terrorism (Apr. 4, 2003), reprinted in the torture Papers, supra note 1, at 286, 340-41.

3 Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, Aug. 12, 1949, 6 U.S.T. 3516, 75 U.N.T.S. 287 [hereinafter Civilian Convention].

4 See Civilian Convention, supra note 3, art. 4, 6 U.S.T. at 3520, 75 U.N.T.S. at 290 (“ Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals.”).

5 Civilian Convention, supra note 3, art. 31, 6 U.S.T. at 3538, 75 U.N.T.S. at 308 (emphasis added).

6 U.S. Const, art. VI, cl. 2.