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  • Kelly Anderson, 3L Student at Notre Dame Law School, stands near a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter during a tour this summer while interning with the U.S. Coast Guard Office of the Judge Advocate General. Read more
  • Junior Army Judge Advocate on Rule of Law mission briefs President of Afghanistan Read more
  • Marine Corps JAG gets advice for succeeding at OCS. Read more
  • Lt. Amy C. Zajac, Region Legal Service Office Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia (EURAFSWA), served as staff judge advocate for U.S. military personnel aboard the French Navy Mistral-class LHD Tonnerre (L9014) as it executed a bilateral U.S.-French mission, the first of its kind, in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea, and Gulf of Aden. Read more
  • Lt. John Butler, Cmdr. Scott Thompson and Lt. Cmdr. Dave Gonzalez prepared for a convoy in Kabul, Afghanistan in 2009. As U.S. legal advisors to the Afghan Ministry of Interior Chief of Legal Affairs, they provided Afghan National Police legal advisors the knowledge and skills to train Afghan police in the law. - See more

Notable

  • “We must never forget that the record on which we judge these defendants is the record on which history will judge us tomorrow. To pass these defendants a poisoned chalice is to put it to our own lips as well.”

    Justice Robert Jackson, Opening Address to the International Military Tribunal at the Nuremberg Trials (10 November 1945)

  • “History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”

    Dwight D. Eisenhower

  • “When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”

    George Washington

  • “Justice must always question itself, just as society can exist only by means of the work it does on itself and on its institutions.”

    Michel Foucault

  • “A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.”

    Abraham Lincoln

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