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Yamashita's Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability

Horrific war crimes in the
Philippines.



The capture of a Japanese
general.



A trial by five US Army
generals.

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How could justice not be
done?



Allan A. Ryan graduated from Dartmouth College and magna cum
laude from the University of Minnesota Law School, where he was President of
the Minnesota Law Review. He served as a law clerk to Justice Byron White on
the Supreme Court of the United States, and then was a captain in the US Marine
Corps. He later was Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States,
arguing eight cases on behalf of the government in the Supreme Court.

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In 1980, he was named the first Director of the Office of
Special Investigations in the US Department of Justice, responsible for the
investigation and prosecution of Nazi war criminals in the United States. He
returned to Cambridge in 1985 and has been a lawyer at Harvard since then,
first in the Office of General Counsel and now at Harvard Business School.



He is the author of Yamashita’s
Ghost: War Crimes, MacArthur’s Justice and Command Accountability,

published last year by the University of Kansas Press. The book was awarded the
Outstanding Book prize by the Society for History in Federal Government and was
a finalist for the American Bar Association’s award for Best Book of the Year. Yamashita’s Ghost is currently being
developed as a documentary to be broadcast on PBS in 2014.



He teaches a course on the law of war at Boston College Law
School, and a course called “War Crimes, Genocide and Justice” at the Harvard
Summer School. He is a member of the National Commission of the Anti-Defamation
League. 



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