Introduction

The Veterans Law Review, an online journal publishing in the area of Veterans’ law and jurisprudence, accepts submissions on a rolling basis for consideration of publication in the next volume. Writings may be submitted through Scholastica or may be sent directly to the Editorial Board via the email below. The Veterans Law Review actively encourages Veterans’ service organizations, Veterans, and those working on Veterans’ issues to submit original legal writings for consideration for publication. Manuscripts should be typed and double-spaced in Microsoft Word, Times New Roman 12-point font, and should conform to the current edition of the Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation. The editors review each manuscript for scholarly merit, clarity, and accuracy and will notify authors of any substantive changes. Authors are invited to discuss potential submissions with the current Veterans Law Review Editorial Board via email. Please use the style guidelines and instructions for submissions to the Editorial Board.

The Veterans Law Review is an online journal and does not produce print copies of volumes. In addition to the links above, writings published in the Veterans Law Review are available on Westlaw and HeinOnline.

Unless otherwise indicated all editors are lawyers or Veterans Law Judges working at the Board of Veterans’Appeals.

Volume 9 [2023]

Front Matter (PDF, 134 kB, 6 pages)

Articles

• The Presumption of Competence of VA Medical Examiners: Where Does it Come From and Where is it Heading (PDF, 543 kB, 23 pages) by Roya Bahrami, Lilian Leifert, and Jonathan Hager
• Paving the Road Less Traveled: Structuring Veterans Disability Compensation to Facilitate Readjustment (PDF, 600 kB, 29 pages) by Robert Divis
• Backwards and in Heels: Butts v. McDonald and VA’s EAJA Problem (PDF, 608kB, 31 pages) by Thomas E. Duncombe
• Mental Illness and Military Discharge Upgrades: American Veterans’ Unseen Wounds (PDF, 351 kB, 15 pages) by Samantha Mountford

Case Summary

• An Overview of Precedential Cases of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims from 2017 to 2018 (PDF, 501 kB, 30 pages) by Dane Lauritzen

Volume 8 [2017]

Front Matter (PDF, 158 kB, 8 pages)

Articles

• When Time is of the Essence: Reverse, Don’t Remand (PDF, 1007 kB, 25 pages) by Jeremy Bailie
• The Common Law Solution to Gardner’s Presumption (PDF, 812 kB, 25 pages) by Carolyn Ryan

Notes and Comments

• The Future of Interrogatories Under Nohr v. McDonald (PDF, 318 kB, 21 pages) by Ellen F. Brandau
• Unreasonable Delay Accessing Health Care Through the VA: How to Improve Veterans’ Access to Mental Health Care and Increase VA Accountability (PDF, 848 kB, 20 pages) by Naomi Ahsan
• An Overview of Precedential Cases of the Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims, 2015 (PDF, 344 kB, 29 pages) by Victoria Moshiashwili and Aaron Moshiashwili

Volume 7 [2015]

Front Matter (PDF, 282 kB, 6 pages)

Articles

• EAJA Fees for Reasons-and-Bases Remands: The Perspective of a Veterans’ Lawyer (PDF, 356 kB, 14 pages) by David E. Boelzner
• Resolving the Ambiguities in 38 C.F.R. § 3.655: An Analysis of the VA Regulation Governing the Failure to Report for an Examination (PDF, 453 kB, 21 pages) by Kerry Hubers and Jonathan Hager

Notes and Comments

• A Benefits System for the Information Age (PDF, 390 kB, 21 pages) by James D. Ridgway
• The Effects of the Comptroller General’s 1954 Report to Congress Regarding the Compensation and Pension Program of the Veterans Administration (PDF, 391 kB, 10 pages) by George E. Sheets
• Getting to the Root of the It: Broadening the Scope of Claims after DeLisio v. Shinseki (PDF, 279 kB, 7 pages) by Jenny J. Tang
• How Long Till Dawn: Memoirs of One of the Charter Members and Original Founders of the Resistance Movement in Algiers and a Member of the OSS During World War II (PDF, 329 kB, 6 pages) by Jenny J. Tang

Volume 6 [2014]

Front Matter (PDF, 622 kB, 6 pages)

Articles

• Veterans’ Benefits Law 2010-2013: Summary, Synthesis, And Suggestions (PDF, 1.59 MB, 79 pages) by Michael P. Allen
• Learning from an Ally: Can American Veterans Benefit from Lump Sum Payments and a Claim Submission Deadline? (PDF, 1.46 MB, 45 pages) by Rachel T. Brant
• Unraveling the PTSD Paradox: A Proposal to Simplify the Adjudication of Claims for Service Connection for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PDF, 1 MB, 62 pages) by Sarah K. Mayes

Notes and Comments

• Benign Neglect: Veteran-owned Small Business in Federal Procurement Today (PDF, 856 kB, 26 pages) by Kelly McGann
• Of Locke and Valor: Why the Supreme Court’s Decision in United States v. Alverez does not Foreclose Congress’s Ability to Protect the Property Rights of Medal of Honor Recipients (PDF, 976 kB, 51 pages) by Tim J. Geverd

Book Review

• The Military Advantage: The Military.com Guide to Military and Veterans Benefits (PDF, 719 kB, 6 pages) by Alice A. Booher

Volume 5 [2013]

Front Matter (PDF, 174 kB, 6 pages)

Articles

• Recovering an Institutional Memory: The Origins of the Modern Veterans’ Benefits System from 1914 TO 1958 (PDF, 445 kB, 55 pages) by James D. Ridgway
• Medals of Dishonor?: Military, Free Speech and the Stolen Valor Act (PDF, 568 kB, 80 pages) by Eric C. Yarnell

Notes and Comments

• Commentary on Three Cases from the Federal Circuit and the Appeals for Veterans Claims as we Approach Twenty-Five Years of Judicial Review of Veterans’ Benefits (PDF, 325 kB, 28 pages) by Michael P. Allen
• A Proposed Approach to the BVA’s Clarified Hearing Duties to Explain and Suggest Pursuant to Bryant v. Shinseki (PDF, 379 kB, 37 pages) by Corey L. Bosely and Bradley W. Hennings
• Camp Lejeune revisited: Strategies for Implementing a Program of Benefits for Veterans’ Dependents (PDF, 289 kB, 18 pages) by Bridgid Cleary and Michael Tooshi

Book Review

• Veterans’ Journeys Home: Life After Afghanistan and Iraq (PDF, 217 kB, 8 pages) by Caleb S. Cage

Volume 4 [2012]

Front Matter (PDF, 642 kB, 5 pages)

Errata (PDF, 441 kB, 1 page)

Articles

• Coming Full Circle: How VBA Can Complement Recent Changes in DOD and VHA Policy Regarding Military Sexual Trauma (PDF, 755 kB, 40 pages) by Brianne Ogilvie and Emily Tamlyn
• Judge, Jury and the Gate Keepter: Admitting and Weighing Expert Testimony in Veterans’ Claims, Adjudication and the Federal Courts (PDF, 734 kB, 44 pages) by Jonathan Krisch
• Warning: Don’t Drink the Water: An Examination of Appropriate Solutions for Veterans Exposed to Contaminated Water at Marine Corps Base Camp Le Jeune (PDF, 766 kB, 46 pages) by Allison Lin

Notes and Comments

• The Medical Examiner as Factfinder: The Effect of the Lay Evidence Doctrine on VA’s Duty to Assist in Securing Medical Nexus Opinions (PDF, 669 kB, 31 pages) by Simone Coyle, Amy Ishizawar, and Holly Seesel
• Way Off Base: An Argument against Intimate Partner Violence Cases in Veterans Treatment Courts (PDF, 828 kB, 44 pages) by Pamela Kravetz
• Reforming the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) to Maximize Veterans’ Receipt of Benefits and Increase Efficiency of the Claims Process (PDF, 740 kB, 36 pages) by Hillary Bunker, Shera Finn, and Chaz Lehman

Book Review

• Matterhorn: A novel of the Vietnam War (PDF, 536 kB, 8 pages) by Sarah Boyce

Volume 3 [2011]

Front Matter (PDF, 554 kB, 6 pages)

Chairman’s Forum (PDF, 484 kB, 2 page)

Articles

• The Law of Veteran’s Benefits 2008-2010: Significant Developments, Trends, and A Glimpse into the Future (PDF, 791 kB, 66 pages) by Michael P. Allen
• The United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims: Has It Mastered Chevron’s Step Zero (PDF, 814 kB, 68 pages) by Linda D. Jellum
• The Splendid Isolation Revisited: Lessons from the History of Veterans’ Benefits Before Judicial Review (PDF, 931 kB, 85 pages) by James D. Ridgway
• Due Process in the Wake of Cushman v. Shinseki: The Inconsistency of Extending a Constitutionally Protected Property Interest to Applicants for Veterans’ Benefits (PDF, 708 kB, 43 pages) by Emily Woodward Deutsch and Robert James Burriesci

Notes and Comments

• Standards of the Standards of Review (PDF, 709 kB, 21 pages) by Lee Will Berry IV
• The Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000: Ten Years Later (PDF, 650 kB, 38 pages) by Terrance T. Griffin & Thomas D. Jones

Book Review

• Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Books, Not Bombs, in Afghanistan and Pakistan (PDF, 559 kB, 8 pages) book review by Alice A. Booher
• The Girls Come Marching Home: Stories of Women Warriors Returning from the War in IraqDeadly Conflict in War and in Peace (PDF, 565 kB, 7 pages) by Sarah Boyce
• With Wings Like Eagles: A History of the Battle of Britain (PDF, 546 kB, 8 pages) by Robert R. Watkins & Shauna M. Watkins

Volume 2 [2010]

Front Matter (PDF, 491 kB, 4 pages)

Chairman’s Forum (PDF, 475 kB, 2 page)

Articles

• The Rule of Prejudicial Error and 38 U.S.C. § 5103(a): What Led to the United States Supreme Court Decision in Shinseki v. Sanders and the Need for a Clear Standard of Prejudice (PDF, 722 kB, 56 pages) by James G. Reinhart
• Expedited Claim Adjudication Initiative (ECA): A Balancing Act between Efficiency and Protecting Due Process Rights of Claimants (PDF, 584 kB, 24 pages) by Marcy Kreindler and Sarah B. Richmond
• The Importance of Preserving the Pro-Claimant Policy Underlying the Veterans’ Benefit Scheme: A Comparative Analysis of the Administrative Structure of the Department of Veterans Affairs Disability Benefits System (PDF, 711 kB, 44 pages) by Rory Riley
• Parsing the Paperless Push: A Study of the Latest Efforts to Automate the Veterans’ Claims Process (PDF, 711 kB, 28 pages) by Emily Woodward Deutsch and Terrence T. Griffin
• The Evolution of the Pending Claim Doctrine (PDF, 662 kB, 40 pages) by John Fussell and Jonathan Hager
• The Restoration and Modernization of Education Benefits Under the Post-9/11 Veterans Assistance Act of 2008 (PDF, 660 kB, 36 pages) by Katherine Kiemle Buckley and Bridgid Cleary
• Presume Too Much: An Examination of How the Proposed Combat PTSD Act would Alter the Presumption of a Traumatic Stressor’s Occurrence for Veterans (PDF, 648 kB, 28 pages) by Bradley A. Fink

Notes and Comments

• A New Era for Establishing Service Connection for PostTraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): A Proposed Amendment to he Stressor Verification Requirement (PDF, 562 kB, 12 pages) by Nathaniel Doanand and Barbara Morton
• Trend Toward Equality? A Comparative Analysis of the Treatment of NonCitizen Veterans in the Administration of Post-Service Benefits (PDF, 619 kB, 20 pages) by Adriane Turnipseed

Book Review

• Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot who Crippled Her (PDF, 554 kB, 6 pages) by Donna Davis Ebaugh
• On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace (PDF, 539 kB, 8 pages) by Kelly B. McDonald
• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath (PDF, 561 kB, 8 pages) by Alice A. Booher
• The Military Advantage: The Military.com Guide to Military and Veterans Benefits (PDF, 544 kB, 8 pages) by Alice A. Booher

Volume 1 [2009]

Front Matter (PDF, 481 kB, 4 pages)

Secretary’s Forum (PDF, 478 kB, 1 page)

Articles

• Effects of Representation by Attorneys in Cases Before VA: The “New Paternalism” (PDF, 814 kB, 48 pages) by Steven Reiss and Matthew Tenner
• VA’s Duty to Assist in the Context of PTSD Stressor Verification: What Must VA do to Fulfill the Veterans Claims Assistance Act of 2000 (PDF, 695 kB, 19 pages) by Shera Finn, Thomas Jones, and Barbara C. Morton
• Federal Jurisprudence Regarding VA’s Duty to Provide Medical Examination: Preserving the Uniquely Pro-Claimant Nature of VA’s Adjudicatory System while Providing Timely Decisions (PDF, 567 kB, 44 pages) by Daniel Brook, Motrya Mac, and Nathaniel Doan
• Why so Many Remands?: A Comparative Analysis of Appellate Review by the United States Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims (PDF, 867 kB, 54 pages) by James D. Ridgway
• Gulf War Syndrome: Addressing Undiagnosed Illnesses from the First War With Iraq (PDF, 567 kB, 16 pages) by James P. Terry
• The Role of New Media in the Veterans Benefits Arena (PDF, 649 kB, 25 pages) by Emily Woodward Deutsch and Michael Donohue

Notes and Comments

• Two Perspectives on Legal Authority within the Department of Veterans Affairs Adjudication (PDF, 644 kB, 14 pages) by Jeffrey Parker
• VA’S Duty to Assist Incarcerated Veterans (PDF, 595 kB, 9 pages) by Timothy J. McDonald
• Reforming VA’s Medication Copayment Statute (PDF, 589 kB, 11 pages) by Jonathan Hager
• VA Disability Appeals and 38 U.S.C. § 7105: Is the One Year Timeframe for the Filing of a Notice of Disagreement Excessive? (PDF, 587 kB, 5 pages) by Phyllis L. Childers

Book Review

• Blood Brothers: Among the Soldiers of Ward 57 by Michael Weisskopf (PDF, 567 kB, 4 pages) by Alice A. Booher
• Honor Bound: American Prisoners of War in Southeast Asia, 1961–1973 By Drs. Stuart I. Rochester and Frederick Kiley (PDF, 565 kB, 3 pages) by Alice A. Booher
• Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and its Aftermath (PDF, 561 kB, 8 pages) by Alice A. Booher
• The Military Advantage: The Military.com Guide to Military and Veterans Benefits (PDF, 544 kB, 8 pages) by Alice A. Booher

Book Review Essay

• Consequences of Combat: A Review of Haunted by Combat: Understanding PTSD in War Veterans Including Women, Reservists and Those Coming Back from Iraq by Daryl S. Paulson and Stanley Krippner; and Moving a Nation to Care: PTSD and America’s Returning Troops by Ilona Meagher (PDF, 691 kB, 24 pages) by Holly Seesel, Mary Sorisio, and Paul Sorisio