Learn from Daniel Maurer, Associate Professor of Law at Ohio Northern University, and Tony Ghiotto, Teaching Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Kimball R. and Karen Gatsis Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism and Director of Trial Advocacy at the University of Illinois College of Law, about Secretary of Defense Hegseth's recent removals of the senior uniformed lawyers in the Army, Navy, and Air Force (the Judge Advocates General, or "TJAGs") and reporting that suggests that his personal lawyer and newly-commissioned Navy JAG officer will be looking to reform how JAGs provide legal advice throughout the chain-of-command. The reasons offered by Hegseth for firing the TJAGs, coupled with the anticipated reform, pose significant risks that the military will be less capable of -- and perhaps less willing to -- ensure its operations strictly comply with domestic civil rights laws, military justice, and the international law of war. This conversation between two combat veterans (both of whom are former active-duty military lawyers-turned-law professors) explores the consequences of such a drastic shift in compliance for operations the military might take in support of law enforcement inside the United States and abroad in armed conflict with other nations or non-state armed groups.
Speakers
Tony Ghiotto – Teaching Assistant Professor of Law, Director of the Anderson Center for Advocacy and Professionalism, University of Illinois College of Law
Daniel Maurer – Associate Professor of Law, Claude W. Pettit College of Law, Ohio Northern University
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