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The Boards Of Review Of The Armed Services, Roger M. Currier, Irvin M. Kent

Vanderbilt Law Review

To most attorneys not having been directly associated at some time with the Armed Forces of the United States, the words "boards of review" mean little. Perhaps at the outset it would serve to clarify the matter if each attorney, when thinking of "boards of review," would substitute in his mind the words "courts of appeal" as those words are understood in the federal judicial system. The boards of review can be aptly analogized to our federal courts of appeal because for the bulk of serious cases which arise in the Armed Forces, review by a board of review is …