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Commandant's Annual Reports and Bulletins

- The Judge Advocate General's School (1951-1961)
- Commandant's Annual Reports and Annual Bulletins

The Army Lawyer

- The Army Lawyer (1971-2012)

LCS Administrative & Civil Law Department

- 2012 Estate Planning Deskbook, Volume 1
- 2011–2012 Federal Income Tax Law Course Deskbook

LCS Contract & Fiscal Law Department

- Contract Attorneys Deskbook, 2012
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II
- Contract Attorneys Deskbook, 2011
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II
- Fiscal Law Deskbook, 2012
- Fiscal Law Deskbook, 2011

Center for Law and Military Operations (CLAMO)

- Rule of Law Handbook, 2011
- Rule of Law Handbook, 2010
- Rule of Law Handbook, 2009
- Rule of Law Handbook, 2008
- Rule of Law Handbook, 2007
- Domestic Operational Law Handbook, 2011
- Domestic Operational Law Handbook, 2010
- Domestic Operational Law Handbook, 2009
- Operational Law Handbooks, 2007-2011
- Forged in the Fire: Lessons Learned, 1994-2008
- Forged in the Fire: Lessons Learned, 1994-2006

Geneva Conventions Materials ›››

- International Review of the Red Cross (1961-2001)
- Report on the Work of the Preliminary Conference of
  National Red Cross Societies . . . 1946
       -- Report . . . 1946
- Report on the Work of the Conference of Government
  Experts . . . for Protection of War Victims, 1947
       -- Report . . . 1947
- Draft Revised or New Conventions for the Protection of War
  Victims . . . May 1948
- Seventeenth International Red Cross Conference,
  August 1948
- Revised and New Draft Conventions for the Protection
  of War Victims . . . 1948
- Revised and New Draft Conventions . . . Remarks and
  Proposals Submitted by ICRC, February 1949
- Analysis  for the Use of National Red Cross Societies, 1950
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II
- 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 Concerning the Draft Rules for the Limitation
  of Dangers Incurred by the Civilian . . . 1958
- Final Record of the Diplomatic Conference, 1949
       -- Volume I       
       -- Volume II, Section A
       -- Volume II, Section B
       -- Volume III
- Respect of the Geneva Conventions Measures Taken
  to Repress Violations. Report. . . October 1965
       -- Volume I (October 1965)
       -- Volume II (September 1969)
- Reaffirmation and Development of the Laws and Customs
  Applicable in Armed Conflicts . . . May 1969
- 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
- Conference of Government Experts: Report . . . 1971
- Conference of Government Experts: Report . . . 1972
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II (Annexes)
- On the Use of Certain Conventional Weapons
       -- Weapons that may Cause Unnecessary Suffering or           have Indiscriminate Effects, 1973
       -- Conference of Government Experts on the Use of           Certain Conventional Weapons, 1974
       -- Conference of Government Experts on the Use of           Certain Conventional Weapons, 1976
- Draft Additional Protocols to the Geneva Conventions
  of August 12, 1949: Commentary, 1973
- Official Records of the Diplomatic Conference on the
  Reaffirmation and Development of International
  Humanitarian Law Applicable in Armed Conflicts, 1974-1977
  (Volume I - XVII)
- Commentary on the Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977
      -- Commentary on the Additional Protocols . . . 1977
- The SIrUS Project . . .
      -- The SIrUS Project: Towards a determination of which
         weapons cause superfluous injury . . . 1997
- Constraints on the Waging of War
      -- Constraints on the Waging of War, 2001
      -- Restricciones en la conducción de la guerra, 2005
- Customary International Humanitarian Law, 2005
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II, Part 1
       -- Volume II, Part 2
- How Does Law Protect in War?, 2006
       -- Volume I: Outline of International Humanitarian Law
                         Possible Teaching Outlines
       -- Volume II: Cases and Document
- Message from the President of the United States...1951
-
Senate Executive Report No. 9....84th Congress, 1955
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Hague Convention. . .
   Army Subject Schedule No. 27-1, 1970
- Geneva Conventions of 1949 and Hague Convention. . .
   Army Subject Schedule No. 27-1, 1975
- Message from the President of the United States...1987
- Message from the President of the United States...1999

Army JAG Corps Historical Publications ›››

- The Judge Advocate Journal, 1944-1945
       -- Volume I, No. 1
       -- Volume I, No. 2
       -- Volume I, No. 3
       -- Volume II, No. 1
       -- Volume II, No. 2
       -- Volume II, No. 3
- From Frontier Cavalryman to the World Stage, 2010
- Sitting in Judgment, 2009
- The 82nd Airborne's "Jumping JAG", 2007
- Bolsheviks, Polar Bears, and Military Law, 1998
- 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

Manuals for Courts-Martial

- MCM (2012, 2008, 2005, 2002, 2000, 1998, 1995, 1994,
  1984, 1969, 1968, 1951, 1949, 1928, 1917, 1893,
  1891, 1890, 1901, 1908, 1910, Analysis of Contents)

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?

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

- Military Law and Precedents
- 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
-
Military Affairs, J.A.G.S. Text No. 3
- War Powers and Military Jurisdiction, J.A.G.S. Text No. 4
- Law of Land Warfare, J.A.G.S. Text No. 7
- Selected Opinions - Military Affairs, J.A.G.S. Text No. 9
- Law of Belligerent Occupation, J.A.G.S. Text No. 11
- Setting Servicemembers Up for Success: Buying a Home,
  a Legal and Financial Analysis
- Setting Servicemembers Up for More Success:  . . .
  A Tax and Estate Planning Analysis
- Survivor Benefits

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
- Trial of Captain Henry Wirz
       -- Trial of Henry Wirz: Letter from the Secretary of War
          ad Interim . . . (1866)
- 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)
- Nazi Saboteurs Trial, Washington, D.C., 1942
       -- Ex parte Quirin, 317 U.S. 1 (1942)
- Enactments and Approved Papers (1945-1948)
       -- Index by Subject
       -- Index by Enactment, Approved Paper
       -- Volume I, 1945
       -- Volume II, January-February 1946
       -- Volume III, March-June 1946
       -- Volume IV, July-September 1946
       -- Volume V, October-December 1946
       -- Volume VI, January-March 1947
       -- Volume VII, April-June 1947
       -- Volume VIII, July-December 1947
       -- Volume IX, January-June 1948
- 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

Military Law Review

- Military Law Review (1958-2012)

LCS Criminal Law Department

- Criminal Law Deskbook, Current as of 3 August 2012
       -- Volume I (Substantive Military Justice)
       -- Volume II (Pre and Post Trial Procedure)
       -- Volume III (Trial and Evidence)
       -- Volume IV (Special Topics in Military Justice)
- Criminal Law Deskbook, Winter 2011-2012
       -- Volume I (Procedure)
       -- Volume II (Crimes and Defenses)
       -- Volume III (Trial and Evidence)
- Criminal Law Deskbook, Summer 2010
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II (Crimes and Defenses)
- The Post-Trial Handbook: A Guide for Military Justice
  Practitioners, 2012
- The Post-Trial Handbook: A Guide for Military Justice
  Practitioners, 2009
- The Advocacy Trainer: A Manual for Supervisors, 2008
- Deploying Justice: A Handbook for the Chief of Military
  Justice, 2008

LCS International & Operational Law Department

- Law of Armed Conflict Deskbook, 2012
- Law of War Deskbook, 2011
- Law of War Deskbook, 2010
-
Law of Armed Conflict Documentary Supplement, 2012
- Law of War Documentary Supplement, 2011
- Law of War Documentary Supplement, 2010
- Law of War Documentary Supplement, 2009
- Operational Law Handbooks
       -- Operational Law Handbook, 2012
       -- Operational Law Handbook, 2011
       -- Operational Law Handbook, 2010
       -- Operational Law Handbook, 2009
       -- Operational Law Handbook, 2008
       -- Operational Law Handbook, 2007
- Detainee Review Boards in Afghanistan: From Strategic
  Liability to Legitimacy (2010)
- Read any Good (Professional) Books Lately?: A Suggested
  Professional Reading Program for Judge Advocates (2010)

War Crimes Trials Materials

- Nuremberg Trials, 1945-1949

       -- Nurnberg Military Tribunals: Indictments (Case 1-12)
          --- Indictments (Case 1-12)
       -- "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
       -- The Case of General Yamashita: A Memorandum
- 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)

Military Commissions Act of 2006 ›››

- House Armed Services Committee Hearing (July 24, 2009)
- House Armed Services Committee Hearing (July 16, 2009)
- House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil
  Rights, and Civil Liberties Hearing (July 8, 2009)
- Senate Armed Services Committee Hearing (July 7, 2009)
- 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 (April 27, 2010)
- 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

UCMJ Legislative History ›››

- Selected Papers of Edmund M. Morgan [Forrestal
  Committee on UCMJ] (1948-1949)
       -- Volume I
       -- Volume II
       -- Volume III
       -- Volume IV
       -- Volume V
       -- Volume VI
       -- Volume VII
- Col. Charles L. Decker's Collection . . . 1948-1956
- 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
- Report of War Department Advisory Committee . . . (1946)
  [Vanderbilt Report]
       -- Report of War Depart. Advisory Committee . . . (1946)
       -- a) A Summary of Constructive Criticisms. . . (1946)
       -- b) Topical Outline - Compilation of Answers . . . (1946)
- 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
       -- The Background of the UCMJ (1959)
       -- 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)
-       —               POW: The Fight Continues After the
                          Battle. The Report . . . on POWs (1955)
- DA PAM 21-71  The U.S. Fighting Man's Code (1955)
- DA PAM 21-71  The U.S. Fighting Man's Code (1959)
- 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 27-7    Guide for Summary Courts-Martial
                          Trial Procedure (1985)
- DA PAM 27-9    Military Judges' Benchbook (2010)
- DA PAM 27-9-1 Military Judges' Benchbook For Trial
 
                         of Enemy Prisoners of War (2004)
- DA PAM 27-17  Procedural Guide for Article 32(b)
                          Investigating Officer (1990)
- 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 19-40          Handling Prisoners of War (1952)
- FM 27-2            Your Conduct in Combat under the Law of
                          War (1984)
- 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 27-10          Law of War Documentary Supplement
                          (2009)

- 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 27-10-1        Selected Problems in the Law of War
                          (1979)

- TC 27-10-2        Prisoners of War (1991)
- TM 8-240          Military Mental Health Law (1992)
- TM 27-255        Military Justice Procedure (1945)

Army Regulations ›››

- AR 27-10   Military Justice (2005)
- AR 27-10   Military Justice (2002)
- AR 27-26   Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers
                   (1992)

- 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)

Legislative Histories

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

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

 

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