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Military Legal Resources (U.S. Army JAG School)
Discover the world of the Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) with this exhaustive collection created in collaboration with the William Winthrop Memorial Library of the U.S. Army JAG School, including a wealth of rare and hard-to-find titles in a fully searchable and browsable format. An ideal resource for military institutions and anyone with a passion for military law.
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About Military Legal Resources (U.S. Army JAG School)
Introducing Military Legal Resources (U.S. Army JAG School)—the ultimate resource for judge advocates, law school professors, military institutions, and anyone interested in military law! Created in collaboration with the prestigious William Winthrop Memorial Library of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School, this exclusive collection is now available on HeinOnline’s cutting-edge platform, offering you an unparalleled research experience.
Delve into an extensive collection of hard-to-find titles relating to the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps (or JAG Corps). With a full-text searchable and easily browsable format, accessing this invaluable content has never been easier! Explore an exhaustive range of resources, including:
- The personal library of Francis Lieber
- Hard-to-find documents from the library of Colonel Howard S. Levie
- Geneva Conventions and army investigations
- UN Law Reports on Trial of Selected War Criminals
- Theses by U .S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School students
- Essential military law periodicals
- All authoritative military law deskbooks
- Only complete collection of works by Colonel William Winthrop
- The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS) publications
- Relevant legislative histories
This collection will be regularly updated to ensure researchers have access to every current and historical document relevant to military law. Best of all, this database was added at no additional cost for subscribers of our Military and Government database.
We would like to give a special thanks to Dan Lavering, Law Librarian at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, for helping facilitate the addition of this collection into HeinOnline and for providing his valuable insight and advocacy throughout the course of this project.
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About the Judge Advocate General's Corps
The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Corps, or JAG Corps, is a government law organization and one of the country’s largest law firms. It defends the Army and its Soldiers in all military legal matters and provides important legal advice to senior Army officials. Its licensed attorneys and judges, called Judge Advocates, fight for justice at home and around the globe.
This collection is dedicated to the men and women, past and present, who have served or are now serving in the respective Judge Advocate General’s Corps of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard. From 1775, when General George Washington appointed Boston lawyer William Tudor as the first Judge Advocate of the Continental Army, to the present time, Judge Advocates have served our nation at home and abroad, in war and in peace, by providing principled legal counsel to their respective services.
Featured Content
Essential titles for military institutions and other military researchers.
Francis Lieber was a jurist and political philosopher enlisted in 1863 by President Abraham Lincoln to draft General Orders 100, the first code of the law of armed conflict on land.
Considered by legal scholars to be the first American law school professor, Francis Lieber’s monumental work has come to be known throughout the world as the “Lieber Code” and serves as the foundation of the law of armed conflict to this day.
Within this database, users can explore Lieber’s personal library of more than 180 titles, including:
- Ancient and the Modern Teacher of Politics: An Introductory Discourse to a Course of Lectures on the State (1860)
- De Delictis Militum Hostilium et in Milites Hostiles (1811)
- Germans in France: Notes on the Method and Conduct of the Invasion, the Relations between Invaders and Invaded, and the Modern Usages of War (1874)
The Geneva Conventions are four treaties that form the core of international humanitarian law. They define rights and protections for non-combatants in war. They were codified and updated between 1864 and 1949.
Explore these conventions and their implications with a dedicated subcollection containing titles written by, for, and about the Geneva Conventions and the JAG’s role in enforcing them, such as:
- Constraints on the Waging of War: An Introduction to International Humanitarian Law (3rd ed.) (2001)
- Geneva Convention of 1949 Relative to Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War (1954)
- Weapons That May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects: Report on the Work of Experts (1973)
This collection contains theses written by students in the Army JAG School’s ABA-approved LL.M. program. Each thesis has been written by a military officer who is a graduate of an ABA-approved law school and has been admitted to practice before the bar of the highest court of one of the fifty states or a U.S. territory. These theses were originally distributed as part of Hein’s Legal Theses and Dissertations over twenty years ago. Each thesis is an in-depth treatment of an area of military law such as emoluments of military service and is often the only work to be found in that area.
Additionally, users will find deskbooks and handbooks for attorneys on topics such as the law of war, rule of law, ethics, estate planning, and more. Dive into titles such as:
- Deploying Justice: A Handbook for the Chief of Military Justice (2008)
- Forged in the Fire: Legal Lessons Learned during Military Operations 1994-2008
- Law of Armed Conflict Deskbook (2012-2015; 2012-2020 Supplements)
Explore all issues of essential military law periodicals such as:
- Military Law Review
- Naval Law Review
- The Air Force Law Review
- The Army Lawyer
This collection also contains all of the authoritative military law deskbooks written by the faculty of the Army JAG School, such as
- Contract Attorneys Deskbook
- Fiscal Law Deskbook
- Operational Law Handbook
These publications are updated annually, and new editions will be added to this collection as they are released.
Within The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS) Historical Publications subcollection, users can locate titles published by the Judge Advocate General dating back to 1898 as well as extracted articles detailing the JAG’s history.
Some titles of note in this subcollection include:
- Bolsheviks, Polar Bears, and Military Law: The Experiences of Army Lawyers in North Russia and Siberia in World War I (1998)
- Holdings and Opinions: Board of Review, Branch Office of the Judge Advocate General, European Theater of Operations (1942-1946)
- Instructions for the Government of Armies of the United States in the Field (1898)
The war crimes trials of major German leaders held in Nuremberg in 1945-1946, a focus of international law scholars to this day, are a prominent part of the collection, along with the United Nation’s Law Reports of Trial of Selected War Criminals.
Hein and JAG combined to produce paper reprints of these sets twenty-five years ago to ensure their continued availability for scholars. Previously unavailable materials such as the record of trial of Japanese Army General Tomoyuki Yamashita in Manila in 1945 and the 1946 record of trial of SS Officer Joachim Peiper and other German soldiers for the Malmedy Massacre of U.S. POW’s during the Battle of the Bulge are included.
The collection also includes the U.S. Army’s investigation of the 1968 My Lai Massacre, commonly known as the Peers Inquiry.
Titles within this subcollection include:
- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (1948)
- Malmedy Massacre: War Crimes Trial: Record of Trial (1946-1947)
- Report of the Department of the Army Review of the Preliminary Investigations into the My Lai Incident (1970)
Conduct an in-depth study of the development essential federal legislation relevant to military law with a subcollection of more than 40 legislative histories, including:
- Congressional Floor Debate on the Uniform Code of Military Justice (1950)
- Military Justice Act of 1983: Report (to Accompany S. 974)
- Revision of the Articles of War, 1912-1920 (1920)
Additionally, this subcollection contains one of the most exhaustive legislative histories in military law: The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), which covers influential developments from 1912 through 1949.
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HeinOnline’s Military and Government allows users to research the functions of the federal government in administering these essential armed forces, as well as the issues confronting service personnel both on and off the battlefield—from women’s changing role in the military to the development of new weaponry to navigating benefits offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs after service. With funding to the Department of Defense making up the largest portion of the U.S. federal budget, users can also find publications devoted to debating and accounting for appropriations and other funds spent. This database contains essential committee prints, government reports, congressional hearings, legislative histories, and relevant Code of Federal Regulations and U.S. Code sections, as well as books, serials periodicals, articles, and the entirety of the Pentagon Papers.
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