Naval Justice School

Naval Justice School, Newport, RI
Type United States Navy Training Command
Established 1946
Commanding Officer CAPT S. H. Kopplin, JAGC, USN
Administrative staff
 50
Students 150
Location Newport, Rhode Island, USA
Campus Naval Station Newport
Senior Enlisted Leader LNCS G. A. Cook, USN
Website http://www.jag.navy.mil/njs.htm

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 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 began instructing U.S. civilians and foreign government officials in human rights law.[1]

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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.

Coordinates: 41°30′46″N 71°19′18″W / 41.512858°N 71.321688°W / 41.512858; -71.321688


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