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EPISODE · Mar 13, 2011 · 59 MIN

John Fabian Witt on the Laws of War

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Yale Law School professor John Fabian Witt tells the hidden story of how in 1847 and 1848, on the road from Veracruz to Mexico City, the United States army invented the concept of the war crime as we know it today.

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