Secrecy and Government:

Part Two of the CLS Series, America Faces the Future

featuring:

Frank Anderson, former CIA Near East Division Chief * Elaine Cassel, attorney, professor, Concord University School of Law * Joshua Dratel, attorney, co-editor, The Torture Papers * Noah Feldman, Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law, NYU School Of Law * Bart Gellman, special projects reporter, The Washington Post * Jack Goldsmith, Shattuck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School * Karen J. Greenberg, executive director, Center on Law and Security* Nat Hentoff, writer, The Village Voice * Stephen Holmes, Meyer Professor of Law, NYU School of Law * Scott Horton, attorney * Jameel Jaffer, staff attorney, ACLU * Judge Kenneth Karas, Southern District of New York * Col. Pat Lang, U.S. Army (Ret.) * J. William Leonard, director, Information Security Oversight Office * Anthony Lewis, journalist and professor * Adam Liptak, national legal correspondent, The New York Times * Burt Neuborne, Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, NYU School of Law * Rick Pildes, Sudler Family Professor of Law, NYU School of Law * Walter Pincus, national security reporter, The Washington Post * Dana Priest, staff writer, The Washington Post * Michael Sheehan, Distinguished Fellow, Center on Law and Security * Stephen Schulhofer, McKay Professor of Law, NYU School of Law

Event Details

*This event is free and open to the public*

Date: April 12, 2007

9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks, Dana Priest "On Secrets & Secrecy"

9:30-10:45 a.m. Gaining Perspective: Secrecy Then & Now

with Scott Horton, Nat Hentoff, Pat Lang, and Walter Pincus. Moderated by Noah Feldman

11:00-12:15 p.m. Secrecy and Decision Making

with Jack Goldsmith, Bart Gellman, Stephen Holmes, and Mike Sheehan. Moderated by Rick Pildes

12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break

1:15-2:30 p.m. The War on Terror and the Courts

with Elaine Cassel, Joshua Dratel, Adam Liptak, and Tony Lewis. Moderated by Burt Neuborne

2:30-3:45 p.m. Secrecy, National Security, and Intelligence

with Frank Anderson, Jameel Jaffer, Ken Karas, J. William Leonard, and Stephen Schulhofer. Moderated by Dana Priest

3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks

Location: Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street, (between Sullivan and Macdougal)