Naval Justice School

Naval Justice School, Newport, RI
Established	1946
Type	United States Navy Training Command
Commanding Officer	Capt. Michael J. Boock, JAGC, USN
Admin. staff	125
Students	150
Location	Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Campus	Naval Station Newport
Command Master Chief	LNCM Hardy, USN
Website	http://www.jag.navy.mil/njs.htm

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The Naval Justice School (NJS) is an educational institution of the United States Navy whose mission is to instruct Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard officers and enlisted personnel in the fundamental principles of military justice, civil and administrative law, and procedure. In addition to being licensed attorneys in any state or territory of the U.S., all attorneys in the Judge Advocate General's Corps must undergo training either in this institution, or in in the complementary institutions of the U.S. Army and the U.S. Air Force, allowing them to act as trial or defense counsel at military courts-martial.

The Naval Justice School was founded in 1946 at Port Hueneme, California and moved to Newport, Rhode Island in 1950. It has additional campuses in Norfolk, Virginia and San Diego, California. Beginning in 1990, the institution also undertook to instruct U.S. civilians and foreign government officials in human rights law.^[1]

See also

• The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School (U.S. Army)
• Air Force Judge Advocate General's School
• U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps
• U.S. Marine Corps Judge Advocate Division
• U.S. Coast Guard Legal Division

References

1. ^ D. Michael Hinkley, "Military Training for Human Rights and Democratization" in George J. Andreopoulos and Richard Pierre Claude, Human rights education for the twenty-first century (1997), p. 296-308.

External links

• Naval Justice School official webpage. Retrieved 2009-12-05.