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Extraordinary Justice: Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context.

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAY-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Extraordinary Justice: Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context.(Book review)

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Extraordinary Justice:

Military Tribunals

in Historical and

International Context

Peter Judson Richards

New York University Press

www.nyupress.org

267 pp., $45

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The executive order President Bush issued shortly after 9/11 that authorized special military tribunals for "enemy combatants" suspected of terrorist activity sparked controversy and criticism in the years that followed, according to Peter Judson Richards in his book Extraordinary Justice: Military Tribunals in Historical and International Context.

Richards, who is a professor at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky, and director of the seminary's Center for Law and Theology, examines how military tribunals have functioned, primarily in four conflicts: the American Civil War, the Boer War(British tribunals), World War I (French tribunals), and World War...

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