Seeking rationales; NATO's Yugoslavia bombing raises U.N. authorization issue

Article Abstract:

NATO's intervention in Yugoslavia, launched without UN authorization, rested on the tenuous legal basis that generally limits the rights of nations to intervene in the internal conflicts of sovereign countries. International law experts agree there is a basis for military intervention to prevent crimes against humanity, but these rationales usually justify only short-term intervention until the UN can consider authorizing more comprehensive responses. The UN Charter also requires states to refrain from military force against the territorial integrity of any state.

Analysis, NATO-Yugoslavia Conflict, 1999, Intervention (International law), Military intervention

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Still holding out; United States wants changes in International Criminal Court treaty

Article Abstract:

The article describes a UN treaty conference in 1998 drafting a statute to establish an International Criminal Court and the US government's lack of support for such a court more than a year after the conference. The US insists that it supports the concept of a court but will continue withholding its support until concerns including how the court's jurisdictional powers might affect US troops serving in foreign countries are ironed out.

International aspects, International courts, Criminal courts

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Educated perspectives; former attorneys general discuss high and low points as head of DOJ

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The author describes a forum of seven former US attorneys general with combines service in six general administrations spanning nearly three decades at the 1999 ABA meeting. These included Griffin Bell, Richard Kleindienst, William R Saxbe, Benjamin R Civiletti, Edwin Meese III, Richard Thronburgh and William P Barr.

Powers and duties, Special prosecutors

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