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Summer Courses |
VETERANS' LAW
LAW 595
2 credits |
Professor
Hillary Wandler |
| As American service members
are engaged in combat across the globe, this course will
help prepare a new generation of lawyers to meet the
ever-increasing need for knowledgeable and effective
veterans' advocates to serve veterans of past, present,
and future wars and domestic military service. Students
will explore the history and theory of veterans' benefits
and recent developments in veterans' benefits law, including
notable decisions by the Board of Veterans Appeals and
the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims.
Students will also survey recent studies of the veterans'
disability benefits system and examine in more depth
the unique issues facing service members who have returned
and are returning from Afghanistan and Operation Iraqi
Freedom/Operation Enduring Freedom. Finally, students
will learn the fundamental structure of the benefits
system and the Department of Veterans Affairs claims
adjudication process, and the basics of advocacy on behalf
of VA claimants. |
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