DIILS recently hosted a senior delegation of Nigerian Legal Advisors to discuss professional military education and development of the military legal advisor corps. The delegation visited Washington, DC, Charlottesville, VA, and Newport, RI. They are pictured here with LTG Pede, The Judge Advocate General of the United States Army.
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DIILS adjunct instructor explains a key concept about Rules of Engagement to a Mexican Naval Officer during a recent Maritime Law and Security training course in Mexico.
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A DIILS Team recently traveled to Mauritius to conduct a workshop on the Legal Aspects of Maritime Security Operations and Human Rights. Participants included officials from the National Coast Guard, Police Prosecution Offices, Attorney General's Office, Ports Authority, Oceanography Institute, and Ministry of Oceans Economy, Marine Resources, Fisheries and Shipping. Additionally, we shared approaches to preventing and responding to incidents of sexual assaults and gender based violence.
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The Legal Aspects of Defense Support to Civil Authorities 18010 course presented the inaugural Vincent Sowa Award to Group Captain Musa Sanda-Jika from Nigeria.
The Sowa Award is to honor the memory of Lt Col Vincent Sowa from Sierra Leone. The award citation reads: Continue reading
Major Peter Waiaki is currently deployed as a Military Liaison Officer on UN duties (UNMISS) in South Sudan. He deployed mid-August 2016 and will end his mission the end of August 2017. Read More
NEWPORT -- 41 participants from 30 countries attending DIILS's 18th Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism (LCT) course learned the international law and legal principles that govern national and international responses to terrorism in three contexts: internal disturbances Read More
DIILS International Operations Officer with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito at American Bar Association's Section of International Law Spring meeting in Washington, DC, in April 2017. Read More
NATO Joint Advanced Distributed Learning has published the Online Course Catalog 2019 and this is available for download on JADL and on GlobalNET here. Read More
DIILS recently hosted a senior delegation of Nigerian Legal Advisors to discuss professional military education and development of the military legal advisor corps. The delegation visited Washington, DC, Charlottesville, VA, and Newport, RI. They are pictured Read More
The Defense Institute of International Legal Studies - DIILS - is a Defense Department organization that plans and executes professional legal education and international engagement focused on human rights, international humanitarian law, and the law of armed conflict. DIILS is one of several Defense resources that support the conduct of U.S. foreign policy through security cooperation.
