About Me
Running, lawyering, and learning
I've been running competitively since high school, and ran for the club team at Washington University in St. Louis. I love doing math, sharing history, and dancing. I also love the people and culture of Israel, where I spent a year volunteering and learning between college and law school.
The Thing That is Called Military Justice!
How I re-discovered this famous article, almost lost to history
In law school, I was a fan of history who was dead-set on becoming a lawyer in the JAG Corps. I coudn't help but get a leg up on my future career by trying to understand the foundation of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Many secondary sources, cited an article that I couldn't find anywhere on the internet or in the archives. The name of the article, often cited, is as follows: The Thing That Is Called Military Justice—Concrete Official Evidence Which Establishes that United States Military Courts-Martial Indorse and Approve of Oppression and Arbitrarily Impose Gross Injustice, N.Y. WORLD, Jan 19, 1919
The article was credited for shifting American public opinion against the way military justice was imposed during World War I.
I reached out to my professor and professional reference librarian Hyla Bondereff from Washington University School of Law to help. She reached out to the Princeton libary, one of the few libraries that had a full microfiche of the Joseph Pullitzer publication New York World. The microfiche roll at Princeton was Vol. 23, no. 7934. And boom! See the article on the right (as of publishing this on November 22, 2020, this is the only digital copy available - download and share it!)
