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    The Lieber Code (General Orders No. 100, April 24, 1863) was the military law that governed the wartime conduct of the Union Army by defining and describing...
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    Francis Lieber (18 March 1798 – 2 October 1872) was a Prussian-American jurist and political philosopher. He is most well known for the Lieber Code, the...
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    international law that applied to warfare between sovereign states, such as the Lieber Code (1863) of the Union Army in the American Civil War and the Hague Conventions...
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  • Maria Lieber (1838–1902), German politician Francis Lieber (1800–1872), jurist, author of the Lieber Code Jeffrey Lieber, screenwriter Jon Lieber (born...
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    War, both the Dix–Hill Cartel and the Lieber Code set out rules regarding prisoner of war parole. Francis Lieber's thoughts on parole later reappeared in...
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    and Red Crescent Societies International humanitarian law Laws of war Lieber Code General Order 100 Nuremberg Principles Reprisals Rule of Law in Armed...
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    regulates the conduct of war, torture was first outlawed by the 1863 Lieber Code. Torture was prosecuted during the Nuremberg trials as a crime against...
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    that addressed the conduct of warfare and were largely based on the Lieber Code, which was signed and issued by US President Abraham Lincoln to the Union...
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  • Francis Lieber, drew up a code of conduct in 1863, which came to be known as the Lieber Code, for the Union Army during the American Civil War. The Lieber Code...
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    of rules for the army was founded by Abraham Lincoln who signed the Lieber Code in 1863. During the Korean War in the early 1950s, Chinese and North...
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