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Rules of Evidence for the Use of Force in International Law’s New Era

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2017

Mary Ellen O’Connell*
Affiliation:
Notre Dame Law School

Abstract

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Type
The Laws of Force and the Turn to Evidence
Copyright
Copyright © American Society of International Law 2006

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5 Available at <http://www.pca-cpa.org>.

6 The remainder of this section is adapted from Mary Ellen, O’Connell, Evidence of Terror, 7 J. Conf. & Sec. L. 19 (2002)Google Scholar.

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22 For further development of this latter issue, see O’Connell, Mary Ellen, Affirming the Ban on Harsh Interrogation, 66 Ohio St. L.J. 1231 (2005)Google Scholar.