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Developments Related to the Military Commissions Act and Detentions at Guantánamo Bay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2007

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5 Id. at 1 1–15.

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13 Concurring op. at 3.

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