The forum

Who are we?

The International Military Justice Forum (IMJF) is an academic event dedicated to fostering scholarship and teaching in the fields of military justice, military criminal law and international law. It aims at bringing together academics professionals, military officers, students and all those who share an interest in these exciting disciplines. Its originality is to mix disciplines. Law, legal history, history, ethics, philosophy, and new technologies will be at the heart of our debates and discussions. The IMJF is organised by the French military academy Saint-Cyr Coëtquidan, in partnership with the University of Stellenbosch.

Military justice as it was and as it is

Its first objective is to highlight the diversity of military justice systems, to expose their salient features, to explore their history and to underline their actual evolution.

Comparative Military Justice

In a comparative way, the IMJF also aims to emphasise links and similarities that may have existed – or still exist – between national military laws, which may be consequences of circulations of legal models, codes, doctrines and people or the existence of geopolitical influences.