Veterans Law Library
A Comprehensive Collection of
Materials Relating to the Veterans
Benefits Adjudication Process
Articles on Veterans Law
Robin J. Arzt, What Veterans with Disability Claims Would Gain from
Administrative Procedure Act Adjudications, 49 Fed. Law. 60 (2002)

Charles G. Mills, Is the Veterans’ Benefits Jurisprudence of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Federal Circuit Faithful to the Mandate of Congress?, 17
Touro L. Rev. 695 (2001)

Gary E. O’Connor, Rendering to Caesar:  A Response to Professor O’Reilly,
53 Admin. L. Rev. 343 (2001)

James T. O’Reilly, Burying Caesar: Replacement of the Veterans Appeals
Process is Needed to Provide Fairness to Claimants, 53 Admin. L. Rev. 223
(2001)

Gary E. O’Connor, Did Decide or Should Have Decided:  Issue Exhaustion
and the Veterans Benefits Appeals Process, 49 Am. U. L. Rev. 1279 (2000)

Bill Russo, Ten Years after the Battle for Veterans Judicial Review: An
Assessment, 46-JUN Fed. Law. 26 (1999)

Kenneth M. Carpenter, Does the Functus Officio Doctrine Apply to the BVA?,
45 Fed. Law. 60 (1998)

Gershon M. Ratner, The Federal Circuit’s Approach to Statutory and
Regulatory Construction, with Emphasis on Veterans Law, 6 Fed. Cir. B.J.
243 (1996)

Norman G. Cooper & David W. Engel, November 18, 1988:  A Jurisdictional
Bright Line Veterans Law?, 5 Fed. Cir. B.J. 91 (1995)

H.W. Cummins & Thomas J. Fisher, Jr., Service Accepted, Compensation
Denied:  The Practice and Proceedings of the DVA Concerning Hanford
Atomic Veterans, 30 Gonz. L. Rev. 629 (1995)

Lawrence B. Hagel & Michael P. Horan, Five Years under the Veterans'
Judicial Review Act:  The VA is Brought Kicking and Screaming into the
World of Meaningful Due Process, 46 Me. L. Rev. 43 (1994)

Frank Q. Nebeker, Jurisdiction of the United States Court of Veterans
Appeals:  Searching Out the Limits, 46 Me. L. Rev. 5 (1994)

Charles L. Cragin, The Impact of Judicial Review on the Department of
Veterans Affairs’ Claims Adjudication Process:  The Changing Role of the
Board of Veterans’ Appeals, 46 Me. L. Rev. 23 (1994)

Laurence R. Helfer, The Politics of Judicial Structure:  Creating the United
States Court of Veterans Appeals, 25 Conn. L. Rev. 155 (1992)

Barton F. Stichman, The Impact of the Veterans’ Judicial Review Act on the
Federal Circuit, 41 Am. U. L. Rev. 855 (1992)

Robert C. Mueller, Two Down, One to Go, 38 Fed. B. News & J. 505 (1991)

Bernard P. Ingold, The Department of Veterans’ Affairs Home Loan Guaranty
Program:  Friend or Foe?, 132 Mil. L. Rev. 231 (1991)

Barton F. Stichman, The Era of Reform Generated by the U.S. Court of
Veterans Appeals, 38 Fed. B. News & J. 494 (1991)

Charles L. Cragin, A Time of Transition at the Board of Veterans Appeals, 38
Fed. B. News & J. 500 (1991)

Kenneth B. Kramer, Judicial Review of the Theoretically Non-Reviewable:  An
Overview of Pre-COVA Court Action on Claims for Veterans Benefits, 17
Ohio N.U. L. Rev. 100 (1990)

Kerin E. Stackpole, Note, The Department of Veterans Affairs Definition of
Alcoholism as Willful Misconduct:  Some Sobering Thoughts, 3 Admin. L. J.
601 (1990).  
*** The articles listed below are generally covered by copyright.  Those articles
hosted here are done so by permission and should not be republished or used
for commercial purposes.  Links to external sources are provided where
available. ***
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“The willingness
with which our
young people are
likely to serve in
any war, no matter
how justified, shall
be directly
proportional as to
how they perceive
veterans of earlier
wars were treated
and appreciated by
this country.”

George Washington