The conference, which will examine the current state of the nation’s intelligence structures, its successes and challenges, and its proposed new directions and goals, will feature former State Department officials, former CIA analysts and administrators, and journalists. Among the speakers are: Ambassador Henry Crumpton, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism James Bamford, author, Body of…

Part Two of Legal Cultures in Muslim Societies, a series sponsored in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations. SPEAKER BIOS Vali Nasr is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of International Politics and Associate Director…

SPEAKER BIOS Theodore C. Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy and a widely published author on the presidency and foreign affairs, practiced international law for more than 36 years as a senior partner, and now of counsel, at the prominent U.S. law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison…

Session One of the Center’s new Legal Cultures in Muslim Societies Series, sponsored in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, and in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations; featuring Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School and Nathan Brown of George Washington University, moderated by Karen J. Greenberg, Executive Director of the Center…

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…