*Legal Studies & Paralegal Studies | Program Guide: Military & Maritime Law

"Administration of Torture is the most detailed account thus far of what took place in America's overseas detention centers, including a narrative essay in which Jameel Jaffer and Amrit Singh draw the connection between the policies adopted by senior civilian and military officials and the torture and abuse that took place on the ground." (2007)

"This book examines the national and international law, human rights and civil liberties issues involved in governments calling out troops to deal with civil unrest or terrorism." (2009)

"This book represents an interdisciplinary approach to the legal dilemmas borne out by the war on terror-against the specific background of Afghanistan, Iraq, and this new kind of conflict. It addresses the overlap between religion, ethics, armed conflict, and law, within the context of the current conflict." (2008)

Updated Winter 2012. Expanded and updated to reflect legal developments since the previous edition was published in 2009 and in response to comments received from the Intelligence Community to that edition. (2012)

Published by the Office of the Judge Advocate General and Center of Military History, United States Army. "This is a narrative history of Army lawyers in military operations from 1959--when the first judge advocate reported for duty in Vietnam--to 1996-when the last Army lawyers participating in United Nations operations in Haiti returned home to the United States." (PDF: 2001)

"Law and War explores the cultural, historical, spatial, and theoretical dimensions of the relationship between law and war—a connection that has long vexed the jurisprudential imagination. No longer simply a tool for judging battlefield conduct, law now seeks to subdue warfare and to enlist it into the service of legal goals. In examining this fraught, contested, and evolving relationship, Law and War investigates such questions as: What can efforts to subsume war under the logic of law teach us about the aspirations and limits of law? How have paradigms of law and war changed as a result of the contact with new forms of struggle? How has globalization and continuing practices of occupation reframed the relationship between law and war?" (2013)

"This collection brings together insights from a former UN Legal Counsel, a former Executive Chairman of UNMOVIC, present and former judges of the European Court of Justice, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, one present and one former member of the International Law Commission, as well as law professors and practitioners." (2009)

"Shares results of a study on sexual orientation and U.S. military policy, requested by the Senate Armed Services Committee in order to weigh repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," including likely military impact and foreign military experiences." (2010)

"This volume provides a concise introduction to the issues and debates regarding modern piracy that include naval operations, law, and diplomacy, and focuses on the recent surge of attacks off the coast of Africa and Asia." (2011)

"Contained in this book are an important international resource for implementing port State responsibilities under the MLC, 2006. They were adopted by the ILO in September 2008 together with Guidelines for flag State inspections under the MLC, 2006. The present guidelines provide practical advice to port State control officers (PSCOs) verifying compliance of foreign ships with the requirements of the MLC, 2006." (2009)

"A surprising number of maritime boundaries remain unresolved, and a range of reasons can be cited to explain why the process of delimiting these boundaries has been so slow. This volume addresses and analyzes some of these reasons, focusing on some of the volatile disputes in Northeast Asia and in North America. Scholars from Asia, the United States, and Europe grapple with festering controversies and apply insights gained from resolved disputes to those that remain unresolved." (2009)

"This comprehensive compilation is composed of 86 international and regional instruments on the regulatory framework of maritime work. The work is divided into four chapters, each one of which includes both legal instruments and comments." (2008)

"An analysis of key provisions in the 1982 United Nations Law of the Sea Convention and complementary principles of international environmental law reveals significant tensions between the concept of high seas freedoms and the international law obligation to protect and preserve the marine environment beyond national jurisdiction." (2009)

"The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention at 30: Successes, Challenges and New Agendas offers twenty essays by renowned Law of the Sea scholars, published to mark the 30th Anniversary of the adoption of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea." (2013)

"This book addresses the often vexed question of national maritime claims and the delimitation of international maritime boundaries. The number of undelimited international maritime boundaries is much larger than the number of agreed lines. The two boundaries that define the marine domain of coastal states are examined." (2004)