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Private Security Companies and Shared Responsibility: The Turn to Multistakeholder Standard-Setting and Monitoring through Self-Regulation-‘Plus’
Private Security Companies and Shared Responsibility: The Turn to Multistakeholder Standard-Setting and Monitoring through Self-Regulation-‘Plus’ You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
Commercial Military Service Providers as Actors in Public Administration
Commercial Military Service Providers as Actors in Public Administration Added by Mikko Räkköläinen Abstract: This paper examines the typical ways in which commercial military service providers (CMSPs) influence the government agencies… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
“A good one though rather for the foreign market”: mercenary writing and Scott’s Quentin Durward
“A good one though rather for the foreign market”: mercenary writing and Scott’s Quentin Durward Erik Simpson Studies in Romanticism. 48.4 (Winter 2009): p667. The Mercenary Context: Machiavelli, Ferguson, Smith IN… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Title: “I (won’t) follow you”: the misguided, and dangerous, interpretation of constitutional extraterritoriality in United States v. Ali
Title: “I (won’t) follow you”: the misguided, and dangerous, interpretation of constitutional extraterritoriality in United States v. Ali Isaac D. Chaput Washington University Law Review. 91.5 (July 2014): p1293. Not only… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Modern warfare: Armed groups, private militaries, humanitarian organizations, and the law
Benjamin Perrin, ed.: Modern warfare: Armed groups, private militaries, humanitarian organizations, and the law Kai Chen International Journal. 69.3 (Sept. 2014): p461. http://www.internationaljournal.ca/Home/Home.html Benjamin Perrin, ed. Modern warfare: Armed groups, private… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
Pitfalls of the A-76 process. (Pressures of a Shrinking Budget)
Pitfalls of the A-76 process. (Pressures of a Shrinking Budget) William A. Cunningham, III and Justin W. Lavadour Air Force Journal of Logistics. 25.4 (Winter 2001): p1. http://www.aflma.hq.af.mil/lgj/Afjlhome.html Outsourcing proponents have… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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Guns For Hire: The Legal, Policy, and Ethical Implications for the Growing Reliance upon Military Contractors
Here is the video of the private military and security contracting event I spoke at on Tuesday at the American University Washington College of Law. Panel 1 (Exploring the history and… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
THE CASE OF THE MURDERING WIVES: REID v. COVERT…,
THE CASE OF THE MURDERING WIVES: REID v. COVERT…, 212 Mil. L. Rev. 133 Military Law Review Summer, 2012 Department of Army Pamphlet 27-100-212 You must be logged in to view this content. Click here to subscribe
Criminal liability of civilian contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan
Criminal liability of civilian contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan Ingrid L. Price Source: Stanford Journal of International Law. 49.2 (Summer 2013): p491. I. INTRODUCTION II. THE GAPING HOLE: MILITARY CONTRACTORS IN… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
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Blackwater’s new battlefield: toward a regulatory regime in the United States for privately armed contractors operating at sea.
Blackwater’s new battlefield: toward a regulatory regime in the United States for privately armed contractors operating at sea Sean Patrick Mahard Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law. 47.1 (Jan. 2014): p331. http://law.vanderbilt.edu/index.aspx… You must be logged in to view this content. … Continue reading
