Rule of Law in Iraq & Afghanistan

[jcustis]

Given almost a decade of experience, some Lessons Learned can be and have been learned from those conflicts.

We start with Rule of Law in Iraq and Afghanistan, by Mark Martins - Brigadier General, United States Army, Commander, Rule of Law Field Force, Afghanistan. J.D. , Harvard Law School, 1990 - Brig. Gen. Martins delivered these remarks as part of the Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series at Harvard Law School on April 18, 2011, upon receiving the Harvard Law School Medal of Freedom.

Speech (17 pages in pdf)

Slides (15 slides in pdf)

Examples covered:



The examples cover not only the Rule of Law, but also the Laws of War (LOAC).

Those and other legal issues resaulted in:



BG Martins' comments take us up to this week in Operational Law.

Regards

Mike

the staff judge advocate assigned to my battalion during my last deploy was everything mentioned that a military lawyer should be. He went at his mission with a passion, despite the walls and roadblocks that seemed to routinely appear from the elders and even the district governor himself. he plowed on nonetheless, until the very end. That takes passion for the trade.