How America Gets Away With Murder: Illegal Wars, Collateral Damage and Crimes Against Humanity is a 2005 book by Canadian legal professor Michael Mandel,[1] published in 2005 by Pluto Press.

[2] The author summarises the legal justifications for the wars, including United Nations Security Council approvals, self-defence, and humanitarian explanations and discounts them all.

[3] M. Michelle Gallant (Ph.D) at University of Manitoba's faculty of law describes the book as "caustic" as well as "well-documented, incisive, if at time overly harsh.

[2] Elberling further accuses Mandel of inaccuracy around a statement that the United Nations Security Council can defer International Criminal Court investigations indefinitely, stating that is an over simplification of the rules.

[2] Elberling emphasises that the main arguments in the book are strong but "would have been even stronger - and probably had more chance of convincing supporters of the international criminal law movement - without such avoidable mistakes."