Court-Martial Procedure

Francis A. Gilligan is the Director of Training and Education for the military commissions' prosecutors. He received his BA from Alfred University and his JD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. His other degrees include a LL.M. and S.J.D. from George Washington University. He has written extensively in the field of evidence and criminal procedure. He has published articles in the Yale, Virginia, Ohio State, San Diego, Rutgers, and Boston College Law Reviews, as well as the Journal of Criminal Law in Criminology (Northwestern University) and the Search and Seizure Law Report (Clark Boardman). He has written or co-authored more than ten books, including Courtroom Criminal Evidence (LexisNexis) (with Imwinkelried, Giannelli and Lederer) (5th ed. 2011 and Supp. 2013) and Court-Martial Procedure (LexisNexis) (with Lederer) (3d ed. 2006 and Supp. 2013). Mr. Gilligan has been cited numerous times by the Supreme Court and by federal, state, and military courts. He also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Law at George Washington University. The classes of 2002 and 2005 at George Washington University presented him with Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Awards.

Professor Fredric I. Lederer teaches criminal procedure, evidence litigation, and military law at the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law. A former Army defense counsel, prosecutor, and trial judge, he was co-drafter of the Military Rules of Evidence. As a reserve officer, he now serves as Deputy Commandant (IMA) of the Army's Judge Advocate General's School. He has lectured frequently at such programs as the Inter-Service Military Judge's Seminar. A prolific writer, Professor Lederer is co-author of a leading text on criminal evidence and author of a military criminal law text used for many years at the Army's Judge Advocate General's School.