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32 JAG J. 1 (1982)
If a Tree Falls in the Forest...: Publication and Digesting Policies and the Potential Contribution of Military Courts to American Law

handle is hein.journals/naval32 and id is 5 raw text is: . XXXII If a Tree Falls in the Forest...: Publication and Digesting Policies and the Potential Contribution of Military Courts to American Law Eugene R. Fidell* With the demise of the Court-Martial Reports, the advent of the Military Justice Reporter as an element of the National Reporter System, and the publication of a Shepard's Citations for military cases, important steps were taken toward the integration of military jurisprudence with the larger body of American criminal law. In this article, Mr. Fidell suggests that these steps may not be as effective as one would have hoped because of deficiencies in the digesting arrangements, and urges a reexaminaton of those arrangements as well as the policy with respect to publication of military appellate cases. Improvements in these areas could help foster increased interaction between the military and civilian legal systems. I. INTRODUCTION. Sweeping reviews of the military justice system resemble, in some ways, bamboo or locusts: they come in cycles. Every so often, one law review or another awakens to the fact that there is such a system, and accepts a major article or publishes a symposium issue I or, more likely, an * LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae, Washington, D.C. B.A.,-Queens Col- lege 1965; LL.B., Harvard University 1968. The author is indebted to Irene C. Carstens for her assistance in the preparation ofthis article, and to Alan J. Chaset for his thoughtful comments on a draft. 1. E.g., United States Court of Military Appeals: A Review of the 1975-76 Term, 52 IND. L. J. 151 (1976); Symposium, Military Law, 10 AM. CRIM. L. REV. 1 (1971);Justice in the Military, 22 ME. L. REV. 1 (1970); The Uniform Code of Military Justice -ts Promise and Performance (The First Decade: 1951-61), A Symposium, 35 ST. JOHN'S L. REV. 197 (1961); A Symposium on Military Justice, 6 VAND. L. REV. 161 (1953). For obvious reasons, such symposia have also appeared in the reviews published by the armed forces. E.g., Symposium on Military Justice, 12 MIL. L. REV. 1 (1961).

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