Download or read book Law and War written by Peter H. Maguire and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his investigation of such inquiries as the Sioux trials, Wirz trial, Leipzig trials, and the Nuremberg and Tokyo trials following World War II, Maguire agrees that war crimes proceedings on any scale warrant the term "political justice." His examples illustrate the gradations of political justice across three continents and a century of American involvement.