Major General Enoch Crowder served as the Judge Advocate General of the United States Army from 1911 to 1923. In 1915, Crowder convinced Congress to increase the size of the Judge Advocate General’s O
"This first ever book-length analysis of the unusual trial examines the prevailing opinions in Southern Maryland and in the War Department regarding slavery, treason and the Constitution's guarantee o
Since the United Statesa€? entry into World War II, the federal judiciary has taken a prominent role in the shaping of the nationa€?s military laws. Yet, a majority of the academic legal community stu
This biography of Colonel William Winthrop, one of the greatest influences on modern military law, covers the legal training, Civil War service and tenure as a judge advocate that led to this historic
This book is a judicial, military and political history of the period 1941 to 1954. As such, it is also a United States legal history of both World War II and the early Cold War. Civil liberties, mass
