Project Outreach

The U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals recently made a Project Outreach visit to Syracuse University's College of Law. Here's a worthwhile report. Excerpt:

Those who participate in Project Outreach write amicus briefs and present live oral arguments, duties that help them make the leap from classroom to courtroom.

Second-year law students Ava Dussmann and Hannah Rice were part of the amicus curiae for the U.S. Government (i.e., the appellee). On track to become Air Force judge advocates, or JAGs, they found the experience eye opening. Real people. Real cases. No room for error.

“I was grateful for the opportunity to step into this world that has been a dream of mine for such a long time and work with an amazing team of students, professors and practitioners in the field,” Dussmann says. “Through this opportunity, we got to research and learn about the contours of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”

Rice adds that sitting before three Air Force colonels, arguing a real case with classmates who might someday be her colleagues, is when “theory turned into practice.”