Military Legal History

Birch Bayh, The Military Justice Act of 1971: The Need for Legislative Reform, 10 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 9 (1971)

Blumenfeld, Court-Martial Jurisdiction Over Civilian Type Crimes, 10 Am. Crim. L. Rev. 51 (1971)

Terry W. Brown, The Crowder-Ansell Dispute: The Emergence of General Samuel T. Ansell, 35 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (1967)

Scott Bryant, American Military Justice From the Revolution to the UCMJ: The Hard Journey From Command Authority to Due Process, 4 Creighton Int’l & Comp. L.J. 1 (2013)

Comment, The Military Justice Act of 1968: Congress Takes Half-Steps Against Unlawful Command Influence, 18 Cath. U. L. Rev. 429 (1969)

John S. Cooke, Introduction: Fiftieth Anniversary of the Uniform Code of Military Justice Symposium Edition, 165 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (2000)

Walter T. Cox, The Army, The Courts, and the Constitution: The Evolution of Military Justice, 118 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (1987)

Gerald F. Crump, Part II: A History of the Structure of Military Justice in the United States, 1921-1966, 17 A.F. L. Rev. 55 (1975)

Sam Ervin, The Military Justice Act of 1968, 45 Mil. L. Rev. 77 (1968)

_______________, The Military Justice Act of 1968, 5 Wake Forest Intramural L. Rev. 223 (1949)

Robinson O. Everett, Military Justice in the Armed Forces of the United States (1968)

_______________, Feature, the 50th Anniversary of the Uniform Code: A Historical Look at Military Justice, 16 Crim. Just. 21 (2001)

Eugene Fidell, The Culture of Change in Military Law, 126 Mil. L. Rev. 125 (1989)

_______________, Going on Fifty: Evolution and Devolution in Military Justice, 32 Wake Forest L. Rev. 1213 (1997)

Joseph C. Fitzharris, Field Officer Courts and U.S. Civil War Military Justice, The Journal of Military History 68, no. 1 (2004): 47-72

Joshua Kastenberg, A Sesquicentennial Historic Analysis of Dynes v. Hoover and the Supreme Court’s Bow to Military Necessity: From Its Relationship to Dred Scott v. Sandford to Its Contemporary Influence, 39 U. Mem. L. Rev. 595 (2009)

Richard H. Kohn, ed., The United States Military Under the Constitution of the United States, 1789-1989 (1991)

Alfred F. Konefsky, The Accidental Legal Historian: Herman Melville and the History of American Law, 52 Buff. L. Rev. 1179 (2004)

Felix R. Larkin, Professor Edmund M. Morgan and the Drafting of the Code, 28 Mil. L. Rev. 7 (1965)

Austin H. MacCormick & Victor H. Evjen, Statistical Study of 24,000 Military Prisoners, 10 Fed. Probation 6 (April-June 1946)

Herbert F. Marguiles, The Articles of War, 1920: The History of a Forgotten Reform, Military Affairs 43, no. 2 (April 1979): 85-89

Maurer Maurer, Military Justice Under General Washington, 287 Military Affairs 8 (Spring 1964): 8-16

Edmund Morgan, The Background of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Vand. L. Rev. 169 (1952)

_______________, The Existing Court-Martial System and the Ansell Army Articles, 29 Yale L.J. 52 (1919)

William A. Moorman, Fifty Years of Military Justice: Does the Uniform Code of Military Justice Need To Be Changed?, 48 A.F. L. Rev. 185 (2000)

Homer E. Moyer, Jr., Procedural Rights of the Military Accused: Advantages Over the Civilian Defendant, 22 Me. L. Rev. 104 (1970)

Bradley J. Nicholson, Courts-Martial In The Legion Army: American Military Law In The Early Republic, 1792-1796, 144 Mil. L. Rev. 77 (1994)

M.J. Prichard, The Army Act and Murder Abroad, 1954 Camb. L.J. 232 (1954)

Robert O. Rollman, Of Crimes, Courts-Martial and Punishment–A Short History of Military Justice, 11 A.F. L. Rev. 212 (1969)

Robert Sherrill, Military Justice is to Justice as Military Music is to Music (1971)

James Snedeker, A Brief History of Courts-Martial (1954)

_______________, Developments in the Law of Naval Justice, 23 Notre Dame L. Rev. 1 (1947)

J.C.A. Stagg, Freedom and Subordination: Disciplinary Problems in the U.S. Army During the War of 1812, The Journal of Military History 78, no. 2 (April 2014): 537-74.

Arthur E. Sutherland, Edmund Morris Morgan: Lawyer-Professor, Citizen-Soldier, 28 Mil. L. Rev. 2 (1965)

Mark Vargas, The Military Justice System and the Use of Illegal Punishments as Causes of Desertion in the U.S. Army, 1821-1835, Military Affairs 43, no. 2 (April 1979): 85-89.

Frederick B. Weiner, The Seamy Side Of the World War I Court-Martial Controversy, 123 Mil. L. Rev. 109 (1989)

_______________, American Military Law In the Light Of the First Mutiny Act’s Tricentennial, 126 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (1989)

Luther C. West, They Call it Justice (1977)

Guy A. Zogby, Is There a Military Common Law of Crimes, 27 Mil. L. Rev. 75 (1965)

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