Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Derek C. Bok, dean of the Law School, and four Harvard Law professors including Abram J. Chayes, joined 29 other legal scholars Thursday in urging that a Presidential commission investigate the alleged. Songmy massacre and other atrocities committed in Vietnam...
...Everyone knows that war is hell, but there have developed some limits, both in custom and in law, on the conduct of armed forces in hostilities," said Chayes, a former chief legal adviser in the Department of State...
...proposal urged that prominent jurist and legal scholars comprise a commission "of unquestionable impartiality...
...question just isn't that simple. If Harvard agrees to join the Cambridge Project as an institution, it will be lending its considerable prestige to a project about which a number of legal and ethical questions have been raised...
...crucial legal issue involves Section 203 of the recently enacted Military Procurement Bill. That section forbids the Defense Department, beginning next fiscal year, to fund any research not having "a direct and apparent relationship to a specific military function." Thus, future Defense funding of the Cambridge Project-which involves basic rather than applied research-would seem to be illegal...