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Introduction: On the Responsibility and Accountability of Leaders, Military Personnel, and Citizens in Wartime -- SECTION ONE. A LEGAL FRAMEWORK / EDITED BY RICHARD FALK -- Introduction -- SOURCES OF LAW AND POLICY -- U.S. Constitution, Art. VI(2) -- UN Charter Provisions -- International Committee of the Red Cross Summary of International Humanitarian Law -- Genocide Convention (1948) -- Convention on Protection of Cultural Property in Armed Conflict -- Convention Against Torture (1984) -- Declaration on the Prohibition on Nuclear Weapons (1961) -- Kosovo Report, Independent International Commission on Kosovo (2000) -- The Responsibility to Protect, Report of the International Commission on Intervention and Sovereignty (2001) -- UN High-Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change (2005) [excerpts] -- REVIVING THE NUREMBERG LEGACY -- Justice Jackson's Opening and Closing Statements as Prosecutor (1945) -- Nuremberg Judgment -- Nuremberg Principles -- THE IRAQ INTERNATIONAL LAW DEBATE -- Preemption, Iraq, and International Law / William H. Taft IV and Todd F. Buchwald -- National Security Strategy of the USA, White House, 2002 -- A New International Legal Order / Philip Shiner -- Contesting Empire's Law and Human Rights as "Swords of Empire" / Amy Bartholomew -- Iraq: One Year Later / Mary Ellen O'Connell, Anne-Marie Slaughter, Richard Falk, Thomas M. Franck, James Crawford -- Downing Street Memo, 23 July 2002 -- IMPLEMENTING INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL LAW IN NATIONAL COURTS -- Lord Millett's Separate Opinion in the House of Lords Decision in the Pinochet Extraction Case (March 24, 1999) -- The Princeton Principles on Universal Jurisdiction (2001) -- THE ROLE OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY TRIBUNALS -- Jean Paul Sartre's Inaugural Statement, Russell Tribunal (1967) -- David Dellinger's Appeal to American and World Opinion, Russell Tribunal (1967) -- Opening and Closing Statements at the World Tribunal on Iraq / Arundhati Roy -- Opening Statement at the World Tribunal on Iraq [excerpts] / Richard Falk -- Declaration of the Jury of Conscience at the World Tribunal on Iraq.