"This Manual addresses a practice area of great importance to hundreds of thousands of individuals who have served in the United States armed forces, but are often denied the title of "veteran" and excluded from the benefits and services usually offered to veterans"--

This comprehensive book is accessible to lawyers and students with military experience and those interested in representing military troops or veterans. It includes a chapter on establishing a military law clinic, including a sample forms, a sample syllabus, and general information about starting and maintaining a clinic. It also features substantive law sections on the military physical evaluation board proceedings, traumatic service group life insurance appeals, veterans' benefits appeals, appeals before discharge upgrade boards, the Feres doctrine, the Service Members Civil Relief Act, and others. It incorporates excerpts from relevant cases and a series of discussion questions and problems for each area of law.

Reprint of the final edition. Although the title leads one to expect a basic procedural manual, this book goes well beyond its stated purpose to offer a great deal of historical and jurisprudential information. Davis [1847-1914] examines the authority and sources of military law and its relation to civilian law. He also pays close attention to its debt to English military law and custom, some of it dating back to the middle ages. Davis [1847-1914] was Judge-Advocate General of the U.S. Army and Professor of Law at West Point.