The Administrative and Civil Law Department of The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS), Charlottesville, VA, provides basic and graduate core instruction in such diverse subjects as environmental law, defensive federal litigation, law of military installations, military and civilian personnel law, labor relations, government information practices, claims, and legal assistance. Among the many corresponding electives, built upon the core curriculum and available to the students, are such courses as: consumer law, family law, and estate planning; hospital law; Morale, Welfare, and Recreation legal issues; standards of conduct and the Joint Ethics Regulation. The Department also provides interdisciplinary instruction in support of the TJAGLCS International and Operational Law Department's deployment focused courses on operational law. Their various documents are intended for instructional convenience for the military judge advocate student as well as an introduction to the law and to the primary sources of that law.

The 1625 reprinting of the 1584 laws and ordinances for mines published here was written under the direction of Juan de Onate, one of the earliest writers on metallurgy and mining in the New World. He was the first person, who lived in what today is the United States, to write on these subjects. It is hoped that this book will help promote recognition of Juan de Onate's contributions to mining history, and stimulate further research to locate additional works by Onate in the archives of Mexico and Spain.

VA's adaptive sports grant program distributes $8 million annually to organisations that provide sports activities for veterans and service members with disabilities. The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) played an intermediary role from fiscal year 2010, when the program was implemented, through 2013. USOC received funds from VA and subgranted them to selected grantees. VA is now responsible for selecting grantees and program administration. This book reviews how VA selected grantees to provide activities for veterans and service members with disabilities; how VA monitors grantees' use of funds; and what programs and activities were supported with fiscal year 2014 funds, and what is known about its benefits.

It has been three years since Congress enacted the FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 (FMRA), calling for the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), or "drones," into the national airspace by September 2015. During that time, the substantive legal privacy framework relating to UAS on the federal level has remained relatively static: Congress has enacted no law explicitly regulating the potential privacy impacts of drone flights, the courts have had no occasion to rule on the constitutionality of drone surveillance, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) did not include privacy provisions in its proposed rule on small UAS. This issue, however, has not left the national radar. Congress has held hearings and introduced legislation concerning the potential privacy implications of domestic drone use; President Obama recently issued a directive to all federal agencies to assess the privacy impact of their drone operations; and almost half the states have enacted some form of drone legislation. This book provides a primer on privacy issues related to various UAS operations, both public and private, including an overview of current UAS uses, the privacy interests implicated by these operations, and various potential approaches to UAS privacy regulation.

This book compares and contrasts the administration of the Post-9/11 Veterans Educational Assistance Act of 2008 enacted as Title V of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 and Federal Pell Grants, as authorized by Title IV-A-1 of the Higher Education Act (HEA). The Post-9/11 GI Bill provides educational assistance payments to eligible servicemembers and veterans, and their dependents. One of its primary objectives is readjustment of veterans to civilian life and the workforce. The federal Pell Grant program provides grant aid payments to eligible and financially needy undergraduate students, regardless of military service record. One of its primary objectives is to increase postsecondary education access of low-income individuals. This book investigates whether the administrative processes supporting Pell Grants can provide lessons for achieving more timely, efficient, and student-friendly administration of the Post-9/11 GI Bill, thus ensuring that it achieves its policy objectives with respect to educational achievement of the target population. Furthermore, the book examines the extent of overpayments made in the Post-9/11 GI Bill; how effectively VA has addressed their causes; and the effectiveness of VAs collection efforts.

This book offers various perspectives, with an international legal focus, on an important and underexplored topic, which has recently gained momentum: the issue of foreign fighters. It provides an overview of challenges, pays considerable attention to the status of foreign fighters, and addresses numerous approaches, both at the supranational and national level, on how to tackle this problem. Outstanding experts in the field - lawyers, historians and political scientists - contributed to the present volume, providing the reader with a multitude of views concerning this multifaceted phenomenon. Particular attention is paid to its implications in light of the armed conflicts currently taking place in Syria and Iraq. Andrea de Guttry is a Full Professor of International Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. Francesca Capone is a Research Fellow in Public International Law at the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. Christophe Paulussen is a Senior Researcher at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague, the Netherlands, and a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Counter-Terrorism - The Hague.

Book about lawyering in Southeast Asia. Provides a comprehensive overview of judge advocates in Vietnam

The Administrative and Civil Law Department of The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS), Charlottesville, VA, provides basic and graduate core instruction in such diverse subjects as environmental law, defensive federal litigation, law of military installations, military and civilian personnel law, labor relations, government information practices, claims, and legal assistance. Among the many corresponding electives, built upon the core curriculum and available to the students, are such courses as: consumer law, family law, and estate planning; hospital law; Morale, Welfare, and Recreation legal issues; standards of conduct and the Joint Ethics Regulation. The Department also provides interdisciplinary instruction in support of the TJAGLCS International and Operational Law Department's deployment focused courses on operational law. Their various documents are intended for instructional convenience for the military judge advocate student as well as an introduction to the law and to the primary sources of that law.