Featuring: Valerie Caproni, General Counsel, FBI Bryan Cunningham, homeland security consultant, Morgan & Cunningham, LLC Bart Gellman, Fellow, Center on Law and Security and special projects reporter for the Washington Post Jeff Jonas, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Robert O’Harrow, author of No Place to Hide Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, CNET Burt Neuborne,…

Speaker Bios Cass R. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, he…

SPEAKER BIOS David Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after graduating from Yale Law School. Professor Cole then became a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases. He continues…

SPEAKER BIOS Peter Bergen is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; a research fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security; CNN’s terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret…

Featuring: Viet Dinh Joshua Dratel Baltasar Garzón Judge Kenneth Karas Adam Liptak Andy McCarthy Lt. Com. Charles Swift Lawrence Wright Dina Temple-Raston Benjamin Weiser Michael Sheehan David Bowker Gabor Rona Susan Hirsch Bart Gellman Schedule of Events 9:15-9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 9:30-10:45 a.m. The Paradigm: War vs. Crime 10:45-12:00 p.m. Terrorism Investigations and National Security…

About the Speaker Richard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books, including Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform (2006) and Preventing…

Speaker Bios Suzanne Maloney, an expert on Iran, the Persian Gulf States, energy, and economic reform, is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Maloney is a former member of the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff where she worked on Iran, the Persian Gulf, and…

Speaker Bios Rand Beers served as the National Security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. Previously he spent 35 years as a senior civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served…