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Update on United States Military Commissions

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2007
AbstractThis article provides a detailed update on the progress of the United States military commissions under the regime established by the Military Commissions Act of 2006 for the trial of detainees captured during the War on Terror for so-called war crimes.
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Introduction: The Military Commissions Saga

Journal of International Criminal Justice, 2005
One of the key reasons why the Bush Administration opted to create the military commissions for trying terrorism cases was the desire to use classified information without having to face the risk that in some instances the government might be faced with a dilemma whether to reveal the classified information or drop the prosecution and free the ...
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NHS ‘could learn’ from military, says commission

Emergency Nurse, 2009
NHS EMERGENCY care staff have been urged to take a leaf out of the Defence Medical Services (DMS) book on trauma care.
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Military artificial intelligence as power: consideration for European Union actorness

Ethics and Information Technology, 2023
Justinas Lingevičius
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Al Qaeda, Terrorism, and Military Commissions

American Journal of International Law, 2002
It is now more than an academic question whether one should regard terrorism as crime or as war. The attacks mounted by the Al Qaeda organization on September 11, 2001, were of unprecedented scale, heretofore seen only in wartime, killing three thousand people in a few hours’ time.
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Compatible Incentives and the Purchase of Military Commissions

The Journal of Legal Studies, 1998
Abstract For several hundred years European armies staffed their officer corps through a system of purchase. Different ranks had different prices, and as officers moved through the ranks they would sell one commission in order to purchase the next. This basic observation, along with the large sums paid, seem incongruous with twentieth‐century views on ...
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The proposed trials by the US Military Commissions

Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, 2003
On 11 September 2001 three hijacked commercial airliners were crashed into the World Trade Centre in New York, the Pentagon in Virginia, and a field in Western Pennsylvania, killing approximately 3,000 people. The unprecedented magnitude of these terrorist attacks led the United States government to assert that the acts were not just criminal acts but ‘
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Military Commissions in U.S. History

2009
Abstract Beyond the uniqueue Colonial experience and the Founders’ intentions, military commissions have been used by American presidents numerous times over the past years. Field commanders or presidents in the War of 81 , the Mexican-American War, the Civil War, and the Second World War all used these procedures to try illegal ...
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The Influence of the Gun: China's Central Military Commission and Its Relationship with the Military, Party, and State Decision-Making Systems

The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, 2002
Tal Ming Cheung
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Military Justice and the Original Intent of Military Commissions

2009
Abstract The bush administration’s decision to use military commissions as the preferred means of adjudicating al Qaeda was not new for the United States government. Throughout our relatively short history, U.S. military commanders and presidents have relied upon this type of “special tribunal” as the best means to try crimes committed ...
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