NIMJ Writing Awards
Michelle M. Lindo McCluer, NIMJ Director, presenting the 2008 Kevin J. Barry Award with NIMJ Board Members Hardy Vieux and Captain Kevin J. Barry.
The Kevin J. Barry Writing Award for Excellence in Military Legal Studies
On March 5, 2009, NIMJ presented the 2008 Kevin J. Barry Award for Excellence in Military Legal Studies. This award honors an outstanding article published in a calendar year. It also honors an outstanding scholar and peerless advocate of reform: to the late Captain Kevin J. Barry, USCG (Ret). Kevin was a founder and director of NIMJ. The winning article for 2008 is by Professor Monica Hakimi, entitled "International Standards for Detaining Terrorism Suspects: Moving Beyond the Armed Conflict-Criminal Divide," published in the Yale Journal of International Law in the Summer 2008 volume. Professor Hakimi is an Assistant Professor of Law at University of Michigan Law School. The Honorable Mention went to Lieutenant Colonel Geoffrey Corn, US Army (retired), for "Bringing Discipline to the Civilianization of the Battlefield: A Proposal for a More Legitimate Approach to Resurrecting Military- Criminal Jurisdiction over Civilian Augmentees," published in the January 2008 volume of the University of Miami Law Review. Lieutenant Colonel Corn is an Associate Professor of Law at South Texas College of Law. The winner received a $250 prize and certificate. Congratulations to Professors Hakimi and Corn.
Rear Admiral John S. Jenkins Writing Award for Student Excellence in Military Legal Studies
NIMJ announces the winner of the first annual John S. Jenkins Award for Student Excellence in Military Legal Studies. This award honors an outstanding article written by a student during the 2008-2009 academic school year. This award also honors a leader of the military bar who was a co-founder of NIMJ, was the first chair of the Advisory Board, and was a Director of NIMJ for many years. Rear Admiral Jenkins served in the Navy for 28 years and was The Judge Advocate General of the Navy. The winning article for 2009 is by Ms. Laura Beth LeRoux, entitled "A Jus Post Bellum for the U.S. Military: Facilitating the International Legal debate on Post- Conflict Reconstruction." Laura is a student at William and Mary School of Law. Two Honorable Mention articles were awarded. Jordan Walerstein, a student at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, was selected for honorable mention for his article, “Coping with Combat Claims: An Analysis of the Foreign Claims Act’s Combat Exclusion.” Robert E. Murdough, a student at William and Mary School of Law, was selected for honorable mention for his article, “‘I Won’t Participate in an Illegal War’: Military Objectors, the Nuremberg Defense and the Obligation to Refuse Illegal Orders.” The winner received a $250 prize and certificate. Congratulations to Laura, Jordan and Robert.
Kevin J. Barry Award Writing Award for Excellence in Military Legal Studies Award Winners
2008 Winner
Professor Monica Hakimi, "International Standards for Detaining Terrorism Suspects: Moving Beyond the Armed Conflict-Criminal Divide," 33 Yale J. Int'l L. 369 (2008)
2008 Honorable Mention
Professor Geoffrey S. Corn, "Bringing Discipline to the Civilization of the Battlefield: A Proposal for a More Legitimate Approach to Resurrecting Military-Criminal Jurisdiction over Civilian Augmentees," 62 U. Miami L. Rev. 491 (2008)
2007 Winner
Professor Victor M. Hansen, “What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander Lessons from
Abu Ghraib: Time for the United States to Adopt a Standard of Command Responsibility
towards Its Own,” 42 Gonz. L. Rev. 335 (2007)
2007 Honorable Mentions
Major John C. Johnson, “Under New Management: The Obligation to Protect Cultural Property
during Military Occupation,” 190 Mil. L. Rev. 111 (2007)
Major Deirdre Brou, “Alternatives to the Judicially-Created Feres Doctrine” 192 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (2007)
2006 Winner
Major Mynda Ohman, “Integrating Title 18 War Crimes into Title 10: A Proposal to Amend the Uniform Code of Military Justice,” 57 A.F. L. Rev. 1 (2005)
2006 Honorable Mentions
Brian C. Baldrate, “The Supreme Court’s Role in Defining the Jurisdiction of Military Tribunals:
A Study, Critique, & Proposal for Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,” 186 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (Winter 2005)
Major Julie Long, “What Remedy for Abused Iraqi Detainees?”, 187 Mil. L. Rev. 43 (2006)
Earl F. Martin, “America’s Anti-Standing Army Tradition and the Separate Community
Doctrine,” 76 Miss. L.J. 135 (2006)
2005 Winner
Lt. Col. Paul E. Kantwill & Major Sean Watts, “Hostile Protected Persons or ‘Extra-Conventional’ Persons: How Unlawful Combatants in the War on Terrorism Posed Extraordinary Challenges for Military Attorneys and Commanders,” 28 Fordham Int’l L.J. 681 (2005)
2005 Honorable Mentions
Lt. Col. David M. Jones, “Making the Accused Pay For His Crime: A Proposal to Add
Restitution as an Authorized Punishment Under Rule for Courts-Martial 1003(B),” 52 Naval L.
Rev. 1 (2005)
Major Paul M. Schimpf, “Talk the Talk; Now Walk the Walk: Giving an Absolute Privilege to
Communications between a Victim and Victim-Advocate in the Military,” 185 Mil. L. Rev.
149 (2005)
Admiral John S. Jenkins Writing Award for Student Excellence in Military Legal Studies
2008 Winner
2008 Honorable Mentions
Jordan Walerstein, “Coping with Combat Claims: An Analysis of the Foreign Claims Act’s Combat Exclusion”
Robert E. Murdough, "‘I Won’t Participate in an Illegal War’: Military Objectors, the Nuremberg Defense and the Obligation to Refuse Illegal Orders”