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U.S. Administration Encounters Difficulties in Effort to End Guantánamo Bay Detentions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2017

John R. Crook*
Affiliation:
General International and U.S. Foreign Relations Law

Abstract

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Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 by The American Society of International Law

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