Includes index.

pt. 1.First principles -- 1. Fundamental principles of the Supreme Court's jurisprudence in military cases / Sam Nunn -- pt. 2. Judicial independence -- 2. Going on fifty: evolution and devolution in military justice / Eugene R. Fidell -- 3. Needed: an independent military judiciary, a proposal to amend the uniform code of military justice / Fredric I. Lederer and Barbara Hunndley Zeliff -- pt. 3. Crime -- 4. "Good Soldier" defense: character evidence and military rank at courts-martial / Elizabeth Lutes Hillman -- pt. 4. Civillian control -- 5. Judicial review of the manual for courts-martial / Gregory E. Maggs -- 6. Modernizing the manual for courts-martial rule-making process: a work in progress -- 7. Executive branch consideration of military death sentences / Dwight H. Sllivan -- 8. Review of decisions of the United States / Eugene R. Fidell.