Website of the Week

April 14, 2003

American Society of International Law, Armed Force in Iraq, http://www.asil.org/iraqindex.htm

International law experts analyze the legal justification for war in a series of short articles, including

Armed Force in Iraq
Weapons of Mass Destruction and International Law
Security Council Resolution 1441 on Iraq’s Final Opportunity to Comply with Disarmament Obligations
Pre-emptive Action to Forestall Terrorism
The Legal Background on the Use of Force to Induce Iraq to Comply with Security Council Resolutions

Also included are copies of or links to relevant documents, including

Other sources of information (many with a legal focus) on the war in Iraq include:

Boston University School of Law Library, Hot Topic: International Law and the Iraq Crisis, http://www.bu.edu/lawlibrary/research/int/hot_topics/intlawiraq.htm
Center for Defense Information, Iraq: Questions Regarding the Laws of War, http://www.cdi.org/iraq/lawsofwar-pr.cfm
Electronic Iraq, http://electroniciraq.net/news/internationallaw.shtml
Human & Constitutional Rights, The War on Iraq: Legal Issues, http://www.hrcr.org/hottopics/Iraq.html
Human Rights Watch, Background on War with Iraq, http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/iraq/
International Humanitarian Law Research Initiative, http://www.ihlresearch.org/portal/ihli/portalhome.php
Iraq War, http://www.iraqwar.info/
U.N. Security Council Resolution 1441, http://home.att.net/~slomansonb/UNSC1441.html
U.N. News Centre, Iraq, http://www.un.org/apps/news/infocusRel.asp?infocusID=50&Body=Iraq&Body1=inspect
U.S. Army, Operation Iraqi Freedom, http://www.army.mil/operations/oif/index.html
U.S. Central Command, Operation Iraqi Freedom, http://www.centcom.mil/operations/Iraqi%20Freedom/iraqifreedom.asp
U.S. Justice Dep't, Resources for Safety and Preparedness, http://www.ncjrs.org/safety_preparedness/index.html. In response to the current military conflict in Iraq, and possible aftermath . . . .
The White House, Operation Iraqi Freedom, http://www.whitehouse.gov/infocus/iraq/