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Geneva Conventions Materials ›››

- International Review of the Red Cross (1961-1998)
- 1949 Geneva Conventions: Pictet Commentary
       -- Volume I: wounded & sick in the field
       -- Volume II: wounded, sick & shipwrecked at sea
       -- Volume III: treatment of POWs
       -- Volume IV: protection of civilians
- Final Record of the Diplomatic Conference, 1949
       -- Volume I       
       -- Volume II, Section A
       -- Volume II, Section B
       -- Volume III
- Conference of Government Experts, 1971
       -- Volume I: introduction
       -- Volume II: implementation of existing law
       -- Volume III: protection of civilians
       -- Volume IV: behavior of combatants
       -- Volume V: protection of victims of armed conflicts
       -- Volume VI: rules in guerilla warfare
       -- Volume VII: protection of wounded and sick
       -- Volume VIII: annexes
- Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977
- Constraints on the Waging of War, 2001
- Restricciones en la conducción de la guerra, 2005
- How Does Law Protect in War?, Volume I, 2006
- How Does Law Protect in War? - Volume II, 2006
- Message from the President of the United States...1951
-
Senate Executive Report No. 9....84th Congress, 1955
- Message from the President of the United States...1987

The Army Lawyer

- The Army Lawyer (1971-2008+)

Military Law Review

- Military Law Review (1958-2008+)

Manuals for Courts-Martial

- MCM (2008, 2005, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1995, 1994,
  1984, 1969, 1968, 1951, 1949, 1928, 1917, 1893,
  1891, 1890, 1901, 1908, Analysis of Contents)

Army JAG Corps Historical Monographs ›››

- Report on the Investigation of Issues Concerning
  Nominations for General Officer Positions in the
  Judge Advocate General's Corps, U.S. Army
- The Army Lawyer: A History of the Judge Advocate
  General's Corps, 1775-1975
- Law at War: Vietnam 1964-1973
- Judge Advocates in Combat: Army Lawyers
  in Military Operations from Vietnam to Haiti
- Judge Advocates in Vietnam: Army Lawyers
  in Southeast Asia, 1959-1975

U.S. Army TJAGLCS: Selected Theses ›››

- The Exercising of Military and Extraterritorial
  Jurisdiction Over Civilians and War Crimes
- Obedience to Orders as a Defense to a Criminal Act
- Bombardment of Land Targets - Military Necessity
  and Proportionality Interpellated
- War Crimes Trials: Procedural Due Process
- The Juridical Character of Nonstatutory Military Tribunals
- The Juridical Basis of the Distinction between Lawful
  Combatant and Unprivileged Belligerent
- Must the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States,
  1951, be Applied in War Crimes Trials?

Ethics Handbook for Army Leaders ›››

Military Law Historical Monographs, Studies,
Texts and Treatises ›››

- Military Law and Precedents
- Law of Land Warfare, J.A.G.S. Text No. 7
- Law of Belligerent Occupation, J.A.G.S. Text No. 11
- Military Commissions
- Civil Affairs Military Government: Selected Cases and
  Materials
- Report to Honorable Wilber M. Brucker, Secretary of
  the Army, by the Committee on the Uniform Code of
  Military Justice, Good Order and Discipline in the Army
- Command of the Army. A Legal and Historical Study of
  the Relations of the President, the Secretaries of War
  and the Army, the General of the Army, and the Chief
  of Staff, with one another

U.S. Army TJAGLCS Library Historical
Collections

- The Reno Court of Inquiry, 1879
- The Lieber Collection
       -- Instructions for the Government of Armies
          of the United States in the Field, 1898
       -- Remarks on the Army Regulations, 1898
       -- The Use of the Army in Aid of the Civil Power, 1898
- Martial Law in Hawaii: Papers of MG Thomas H. Green
       -- Martial Law in Hawaii: December 7, 1941 – April 4,           1943 by MG Thomas H. Green USA (RET)
- Enactments and Approved Papers (1945-1948)
       -- Index by Subject
       -- Index by Enactment, Approved Paper
- Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949
       -- "Blue Series," Trial of Major War Criminals
       -- "Red Series," Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression
       -- "Green Series," Trials of War Criminals
       -- Final Report to the Secretary of the Army, 1949
       -- Report of Robert H. Jackson, 1945
- Report of the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes,
  European Command, 1944-1948
- Malmedy Massacre Investigation, 1944
       -- Hearings (Part 1)
       -- Hearings (Part 2)
       -- Report
- Korean War Atrocities, 1953-1954
      -- Hearing (Part 1)
      -- Hearing (Part 2)
      -- Hearing (Part 3)
      -- Report
- Peers Inquiry (My Lai)
      -- The Report of the Investigation
      -- Testimony
      -- Exhibits
      -- CID Statements
- American POWs in Southeast Asia (Hearings, 1970)
- Investigation of the My Lai Incident, 1970
      -- Background on the My Lai Hearings and Report
      -- Hearings
      -- Report

Army Regulations ›››

- AR 27-10   Military Justice (2005)
- AR 27-10   Military Justice (2002)
- AR 600-50 Standards of Conduct for Dept.of the Army
                  Personnel (1988)
- AR 600-50 Standards of Conduct for Dept.of the Army
                  Personnel (1986)
- AR 600-50 Standards of Conduct for Dept.of the Army
                  Personnel (1984)
- AR 600-50 Standards of Conduct for Dept.of the Army
                  Personnel (1982)

Ethics and Fiscal Documents ›››

- Illegal Actions in the Construction of the Airfield
  at Fort Lee, VA - Hearings, 1962
- Illegal Actions in the Construction of the Airfield
  at Fort Lee, VA - Report, 1962

Military Commissions Act of 2006 ›››

- Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (June 17, 2008)
- Boumediene v.Bush and Al Odah v. U.S. (June 12, 2008)
- Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing (June 10, 2008)
- The Manual for Military Commissions (Jan. 18, 2007)
- P. L. 109-366 (Oct. 17, 2006)
- House Floor Debate and Passage (Sep. 29, 2006)
- House Floor Debate (Sep. 27, 2006)
- Senate Floor Debate and Passage (Sep. 28, 2006)
- Senate Floor Debate (Sep. 27, 2006)
- S.3930 (As passed)
- S.3930 (As placed on the calendar)
- H. Rep. No. 109-688
- H. Res. 1042
- H. R. 6166 (As passed by the House)
- H. R. 6166 (As introduced)
- H. Rep. No. 109-664 (Part 2)
- H. Rep. No. 109-664 (Part 1)
- H. R. 6054
- Statements before the House Committee on Armed
  Services
- Statements before the Senate Committee
  on the Judiciary
- President's Message to Congress
- House Document No. 109-133

War Crimes Trials Materials

- Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949
       -- "Blue Series," Trial of Major War Criminals
       -- "Red Series," Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression
       -- "Green Series," Trials of War Criminals
       -- Final Report to the Secretary of the Army, 1949
       -- Report of Robert H. Jackson, 1945
- Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, 1947–1949
- Report of the Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes,
  European Command, 1944-1948
- Malmedy Massacre Investigation, 1944
       -- Hearings (Part 1)
       -- Hearings (Part 2)
       -- Report
- The Case of General Yamashita: Memorandum, 1949
- Korean War Atrocities, 1953-1954
      -- Hearing (Part 1)
      -- Hearing (Part 2)
      -- Hearing (Part 3)
      -- Report
- Peers Inquiry (My Lai)
      -- The Report of the Investigation
      -- Testimony
      -- Exhibits
      -- CID Statements
- Investigation of the My Lai Incident, 1970
      -- Background on the My Lai Hearings and Report
      -- Hearings
      -- Report
- American POWs in Southeast Asia (Hearings, 1970)
- Communist Treatment of POWs (Committee Print, 1972)
- Nazi War Crimes & Japanese Imperial Government
  Records (final report to Congress, 2007)

International & Operational Law Materials

- CLAMO
       -- Rule of Law Handbook, 2008
       -- Rule of Law Handbook, 2007
       -- Forged in the Fire: Lessons Learned, 1994-2008
       -- Forged in the Fire: Lessons Learned, 1994-2006
- Operational Law Handbook, 2008
- Operational Law Handbook, 2007

UCMJ Legislative History ›››

- Articles of War (1912-1920)
       -- Revision of the Articles of War 1912-1920
       -- Comparison of Proposed New Articles of War (1912)
       -- Revision of the Articles of War (1912)
       -- Revision of the Articles of War (1914)
       -- Revision of the Articles of War (Feb. 1916)
       -- Revision of the Articles of War (June 1916)
       -- Trials by Courts-Martial (Hearings, 1919)
       -- Military Justice During the War (1919)
       -- Proceedings and Report (July 1919)
       -- Proceedings and Debates (July-Oct. 1919)
       -- Establishment of Military Justice (Hearings, 1919)
       -- Amendments to Articles of War (Hearing, May 4, 1920)
       -- Report to Amend the Articles of War (May 7, 1920)
       -- The Articles of War. Approved June 4, 1920
- The Elston Act (1948)
       -- Investigations of the National War Effort (1946)
       -- Subcommittee and Full Committee Hearings (1947)
       -- Amending the Articles of War (1947)
       -- Courts Martial Legislation: A Study... (1948)
       -- Selective Service Act of 1948: Conference Report
- The Uniform Code of Military Justice (1950)
       -- Uniform Code of Military Justice, 1951 [Morgan Draft]
       -- Congressional Floor Debate on the UCMJ (1949-1950)
       -- Index & Legislative History of the UCMJ (1950)
       -- Legal and Legislative Basis, 1951 (Decker, et al)
       -- Manuals for Courts-Martial
- The Military Justice Act of 1968
       -- Constitutional Rights of Military Personnel (1962)
       -- Constitutional Rights of Military Personnel (1963)
       -- Military Justice - Joint Hearings . . . (1966)
- The Military Justice Act of 1983
       -- Military Justice Act of 1982
       -- Hearing on S. 974 to Amend Chapter 47 (Nov. 1983)
       -- Advisory Commission Report [Hemingway rpt., 1984]
       -- Military Justice Act of 1983 SR [No. 98-53]
       -- Military Justice Act of 1983 HR [No. 98-549]
       -- Full Committee Consideration of S. 974
- Legislative Summary of the UCMJ
- How Our Laws Are Made

U.S. Army Field Manuals, Training Circulars,
Technical Manuals, War Department/
Department of the Army Pamphlets ›››

- WD PAM 27-4   Procedure for Military Executions (1944)
- DA PAM 27-2    Analysis of Contents, Manual for Courts-
                          Martial, United States 1969 (1970)
- DA PAM 27-4    Procedure for Military Executions (1947)
- DA PAM 27-9-1 Military Judges' Benchbook For Trial
 
                         of Enemy Prisoners of War (2004)
- DA PAM 27-161-1 Law of Peace, Volume 1 (1979)
- FM 2-22.3         Human Intelligence Collector Operations
                          (2006)
- FM 3-19.40        Military Police Internment/Resettlement
                          Operations (2001)
- FM 27-5            Military Government and Civil Affairs (1943)
- FM 27-5            Civil Affairs Military Government (1947)
- FM 27-10          Rules of Land Warfare (1914)
- [FM 27-10]        Rules of Land Warfare (1934)
- FM 27-10          Rules of Land Warfare (1940)
- FM 27-10          Law of Land Warfare (1956)
-      —               Civil Affairs Military Government (1958)
-      —               Law of War Handbook (2004)
-      —               Law of War Handbook (2005)
- FM 27-100        Legal Operations (1991)
- FM 27-100        Legal Support to Operations (2000)
- FM 34-52          Intelligence Interrogation (1987)
- FM 34-52          Intelligence Interrogation (1992)
- FM 41-10          Civil Affairs Operations (1962)
- TC 27-10-2        Prisoners of War (1991)
- TM 27-255        Military Justice Procedure (1945)

Legislative Histories

- Freedom of Information Act and Amendments of 1974
- Legislative History of the Privacy Act of 1974



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