SPEAKER BIOS Hooman Majd is the author of The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran. He was born in Tehran, Iran in 1957, and lived abroad from infancy with his family who was in the diplomatic service. He has written for GQ, Newsweek, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New
One of the nation's leading constitutional theorists, Philip Bobbitt's interests include not only constitutional law but also international security and the history of strategy. He has published seven books: Tragic Choices (with Calabresi) (Norton, 1978), Constitutional Fate (Oxford, 1982), Democracy and Deterrence: U.S. Nuclear Strategy (with Freedman and Treverton) (St. Martin's, 1989), Constitutional Interpretation (Blackwell,
Featuring Lt. Col. John Nagl (Ret.), president, Center for a New American Security David Kilcullen, The Crumpton Group Janine Davidson, U.S. Department of Defense Roger Cressey, Good Harbor Consulting, former NSC Staff Member Michael Sheehan, Torch Hill Partners, former Deputy for Counterterrorism, NYPD Peter Bergen, CNN Terrorism Analyst, author of The Osama bin Laden I
A One-Man Performance by Lawrence Wright, author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 Presented by The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law for one night only! Thursday, December 3rd 8:00 p.m. 3 Legged Dog Media and Theater Group, 80 Greenwich St. (between Rector and Edgar Streets) Following
Speaker Bios Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist; a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen has written about al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and counterterrorism for a range of American newspapers and
Video from this event is available here. SPEAKER BIOS Glenn Greenwald is a columnist for Salon.com, and previously a constitutional law and civil rights litigator in New York. He is the author of two New York Times Bestselling books: How Would a Patriot Act? (May, 2006), a critique of the Bush administration's use of executive power, and
Obama and the 9/11 Trials: A Conversation on Security, Justice, and Realism Video available on CSPAN Speaker Bios Colonel Morris Davis served as a judge advocate in the United States Air Force from October 1983 until he retired as a Colonel in October 2008. From September 2005 until October 2007, he was the Chief Prosecutor for the Military
Peter Bergen is a print and television journalist; a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security and CNN's national security analyst. Bergen has written about al Qaeda, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and counterterrorism for a range of American newspapers and magazines including
About Camp Victory Camp Victory, Afghanistan tells the story of several U.S. National Guardsmen stationed in Herat, Afghanistan and the Afghan officers assigned as their mentees. These Americans along with a band of Afghans were given the enormous task of building the 207th Corps of the nascent Afghan National Army into an institution capable of
Nir Rosen is a writer, journalist, film-maker and Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. He has spent over 36 months working in occupied Iraq, four months in Afghanistan and has also worked in Somalia, the Congo, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Turkey, Pakistan and Lebanon, where he lives with his