American Society of International Law³

International lawyers and distinguished scholars consider the question: Is it legally justifiable to treat the Vietnam War as a civil war or as a peculiar modern species of international law?

Originally published in 1968.

This concluding volume of The Vietnam War and International Law focuses on the last stages of America's combat role in Indochina.

The articles in the first section deal with general aspects of the relationship of international law to...

Issues of the war that have provoked public controversy and legal debate over the last two years—the Cambodian invasion of May-June 1970, the disclosure in November 1969 of the My Lai massacre, and the question of war crimes—are the...