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To Yick Wo, Thanks For Nothing!: Citizenship For Filipino Veterans, Kevin Pimentel
To Yick Wo, Thanks For Nothing!: Citizenship For Filipino Veterans, Kevin Pimentel
Michigan Journal of Race and Law
In this Note, the Author uses science fiction novelist Robert Heinlein's model of citizenship as an analytical framework for examining the historical treatment of Filipino veterans of World War II. The Author Heinlein's conception of citizenship in Starship Troopers was one in which a person can acquire citizenship only through a term of service in the state's armed forces. Similarly, the United States provided immediate eligibility for citizenship to World War II era foreign veterans, but it effectively excluded Filipino veterans from this benefit. The Author examines how the plenary power doctrine in immigration law, has quashed legal challenges by …
The Agincourt Campaign And The Law Of War, A. W.B. Simpson
The Agincourt Campaign And The Law Of War, A. W.B. Simpson
Michigan Journal of International Law
Review of Henry's Wars and Shakespeare's Laws: Perspectives on the Law of War in the Later Middle Ages by Theodor Meron