The IDF aims to teach international law to all relevant military personnel. As the primary organ for implementing this policy, the IDF School of Military Law (the School) was established in 1996 by the IDF Chief-of-Staff and the Military Advocate General (MAG). In addition to training IDF MAG Corps officers, the School has an extensive program of courses for teaching military law, criminal law, and international law to IDF personnel.

The Military Law School uses a wide spectrum of means and methods in teaching the Law of War, which aim at giving an array of answers to the various needs of different military personal operating under particular circumstances. The Military Law School’s activities include lectures given at the School’s facilities and in the field, the development of computerized training software, the authoring of reading materials distributed throughout the IDF and the development of academic courses tailor-made for commanders attending other schools or training programs in the IDF.

Additionally, the IDF School of Military Law officers are responsible for the editing and publication of the law school's periodical journal, the IDF Law Review.

The purpose of the Criminal Law section is to imbue trust in the military's heritage of Criminal Justice. Amongst other things, the section deals with issues of criminal law in Israel, Judea and Samaria and is generally involved in research and teaching other legal subjects as they relate to narcotics, sexual harassment, duties of the commander, assault and traffic offences.

The section implements the policies of the MAG Corps regarding requests to the Chief of Staff and the President of the State of Israel for clemency submitted by soldiers convicted in military courts. Additionally, the head of the section functions as the secretariat of the Parole Board, which examines the punishment of soldiers who have received custodial sentences.

This section deals with the implementation of international law and administrative civilian law in the IDF and certain external bodies by means of education, research and the publication of relevant information and legal articles. Amongst the subjects that the section deals with are international law as it relates to the laws of war including the means and methods of conducting armed conflict, accountability under international criminal law, the regulations concerning the treatment of prisoners of war, rules of engagement and human rights law.

This section also teaches and researches administrative law, the sources of military law, commercial and environmental law as it relates to the military.