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• Crimes of War, the book
• World Legal Information Institute
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• Convention for the Suppression of Unlawful Acts Against the Safety of Civil Aviation
• Charter of the United Nations
• Kellogg-Briand Pact of August 27, 1928 (Pact of Paris)
  
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• 1945 Nuremberg Charter
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/proc/imtconst.htm
  
  
• Principles of International Law Recognized in the
  Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal and in the Judgment of the Tribunal
  http://www.un.org/law/ilc/texts/nurnfra.htm
  
  
• Hague Conventions of 1907:
  
  Hague I - Pacific Settlement of International Disputes : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/pacific.htm
  
  Hague II - Limitation of Employment of Force for Recovery of Contract Debts : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague072.htm
  
  Hague III - Opening of Hostilities : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague03.htm
  
  Hague IV - Laws and Customs of War on Land : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague04.htm
  
  Hague V - Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers and Persons in Case of War on Land : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague05.htm
  
  Hague VI - Status of Enemy Merchant Ships at the Outbreak of Hostilities : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague06.htm
  
  Hague VII - Conversion of Merchant Ships into War Ships : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague07.htm
  
  Hague VIII - - Laying of Automatic Submarine Contact Mines : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague08.htm
  
  Hague IX - Bombardment by Naval Forces in Time of War : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague09.htm
  
  Hague X - Adaptation to Maritime War of the Principles of the Geneva Convention : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague10.htm
  
  Hague XI - Restrictions With Regard to the Exercise of the Right of Capture in Naval War : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague11.htm
  
  Hague XIII - Rights and Duties of Neutral Powers in Naval War : 18 Oct 1907
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/hague13.htm
  
  
• Draft Rules of Aerial Warfare - The Hague, February 1923
  http://www.dannen.com/decision/int-law.html#C
  
  
• Geneva Conventions of 1949:
  
  Convention (I) for the Amelioration of the Condition of the Wounded and Sick in Armed Forces in the Field, August 12, 1949
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva05.htm
  
  Convention (II) for the Amelioration of the Condition of Wounded, Sick and Shipwrecked Members of Armed Forces at Sea, August 12, 1949
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva06.htm
  
  Convention (III) Relative to the Treatment of Prisoners of War; August 12, 1949
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva03.htm
  
  Convention (IV) Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, August 12, 1949
  http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/lawofwar/geneva07.htm
  
  
• Protocol 1 - Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts,
  http://www.unhchr.ch/html/menu3/b/93.htm
  
  
• Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
  
  
• UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) (alternate copy)

Supreme Court Justices

Name	State App't From	Appointed by President	Judicial Oath Taken
Rehnquist, William H. (Chief Justice)	Virginia	Reagan	September 26, 1986
Stevens, John Paul	Illinois	Ford	December 19, 1975
Connor, Sandra Day	Arizona	Reagan	September 25, 1981
Scalia, Antonin	Virginia	Reagan	September 26, 1986
Kennedy, Anthony M.	California	Reagan	February 18, 1988
Souter, David H.	New Hampshire	Bush	October 9, 1990
Thomas, Clarence	Georgia	Bush	October 23, 1991
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader	New York	Clinton	August 10, 1993
Breyer, Stephen G.	Massachusetts	Clinton	August 3, 1994

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