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SUMMARY:Aftermath: A Discussion with Nir Rosen
DESCRIPTION: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 wife and son. His work has been published by the New York Times Magazine\, the New Yorker Magazine\, the Washington Post\, Rolling Stone Magazine\, and similar publications. He has filmed for several documentaries. One of them\, “No End in Sight\,” about the occupation of Iraq\, recently won a prize at the Sundance Film Festival. His book on Iraq\, “In the Belly of the Green Bird: The Triumph of the Martyrs in Iraq\,” was published by Free Press in 2006 and is being released as an updated paperback in the spring of 2008. His next book\, on Iraq and the impact of the US war on the region will be released in late 2008. Rosen recently returned from three months in Baghdad where he filmed a documentary for British Channel 4. He is a frequent guest on CNN\, CNN International\, al-Jazeera International and various other television and radio shows.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/aftermath-discussion-nir-rosen/
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SUMMARY:Camp Victory\, Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:About Camp Victory\nCamp 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 providing security\, stability\, peace and justice to a tattered\, volatile nation. Using nearly 300 hours of verité footage shot between 2005 and 2008\, Camp Victory\, Afghanistan\, is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military–the initial critical step toward bringing stability and peace to Afghanistan. \n  \nAbout Carol\nCarol Dysinger has been a feature film and documentary editor for the past 25 years. For her most recent documentary\, Camp Victory\, Afghanistan\, Carol was the recipient of a Sundance Institute Grant\, awarded to documentary filmmakers who explore the critical issues of our times with highly crafted storytelling and stylistic innovation Camp Victory\, Afghanistan is the first film to examine the reality of building a functioning Afghan military-the initial critical step toward bringing stability and peace to Afghanistan. Carol’s films have premiered at the Sundance\, Berlin\, and Venice film festivals and have been nominated for Emmy and Academy Awards. In addition\, Carol has worked as a screenwriter with scripts produced for 20th Century Fox\, Disney\, and HBO. She is a Fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law\, and a tenured Professor of Graduate Film and New Media at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/camp-victory-afghanistan/
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SUMMARY:The Threat Today: An Assessment
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBergen has written about al Qaeda\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Iraq and counterterrorism for a range of American newspapers and magazines including the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, The New Republic\, Foreign Affairs\, The Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, TIME\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, Washington Times and Vanity Fair. He has also written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as The Guardian\, The Times\, The Daily Telegraph\, International Herald Tribune\, Prospect\, El Mundo\, and Die Welt. And he has worked as a correspondent for National Geographic Television\, Discovery Television and CNN reporting from Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Kazakhstan\, Ukraine\, Russia\, Singapore\, Yemen\, Mexico and Indonesia. From 2003-2007 he taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2008. \nHis most recent book is The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (Free Press\, 2006). It was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2006 by The Washington Post. “The Osama bin Laden I Know” was translated into French\, Spanish and Polish\, and CNN produced a two hour documentary\, “In the Footsteps of bin Laden”\, based on the book. Bergen was one of the producers of the CNN documentary\, which was named the best documentary of 2006 by the Society of Professional Journalists and was nominated for an Emmy. \nBergen is also the author of Holy War\, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden. (Free Press\, 2001). Holy War\, Inc. was a New York Times bestseller\, has been translated into eighteen languages and was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2001 by The Washington Post. A documentary based on Holy War\, Inc.\, which aired on National Geographic Television\, was nominated for an Emmy in 2002. Bergen was the recipient of the 2000 Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship and was the Pew Journalist in Residence at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in2001 while writing Holy War\, Inc.Bergen has a M.A. in Modern History from New College\, Oxford University. \nMitchell Silber serves as the Director of both the NYPD Intelligence Division’s Analytic and Cyber Units.  As part of his responsibilities\, he supervises the analysis of the entire portfolio of ongoing investigations within the Intelligence Division. Previously\, he served on the strategic staff for the Deputy and Assistant Commissioners of Intelligence. There\, he was responsible for strategic threat assessments for the Intelligence Division as well as for developing and maintaining relationships with foreign police and intelligence agencies. \nMitch is the co-author of the NYPD report – Radicalization in the West: The Homegrown Threat.  He has presented on behalf of the NYPD at the White House\, National Security Council\, CIA\, FBI\, National Counterterrorism Center and testified before the U.S. Senate.  Mitch teaches a course on Modern Urban Counterterrorism at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nPrior to joining the NYPD in 2005\, Mitch completed Columbia University’s Masters Program in International Affairs where he specialized in Middle East studies\, with a concentration on Saudi Arabia.  Before earning his Masters Degree at Columbia\, Mitch spent nine years in corporate finance as a partner at The Carson Group and as a principal at Evolution Capital\, LLC.\nJuan C. Zarate\, Esq. is a Senior Adviser to the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the senior national security consultant and analyst for CBS News.  He advises companies and organizations on national\, homeland\, and financial-related security\, technologies\, and investments.  Mr. Zarate sits on the Board of Advisors to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)\, the Board of Advisors for Regulatory DataCorp\, the McClarty and Associates Film Advisory Board\, and the Board of Directors for American Charities for Palestine (ACP). \nMr. Zarate served as the Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism from 2005 to 2009.  In this role\, Mr. Zarate was responsible for developing and overseeing the implementation of the U.S. government’s counterterrorism strategy.  He was also responsible for overseeing all policies related to transnational security threats\, including counternarcotics\, maritime security\, hostages\, international organized crime\, money laundering\, and critical energy infrastructure protection. \nPrior to joining the NSC\, Mr. Zarate served as the first Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes where he led Treasury’s domestic and international efforts to attack terrorist financing\, build comprehensive anti-money laundering systems\, and expand the use of Treasury powers to advance national security interests. \nMr. Zarate also led the U.S. government’s global efforts to hunt Saddam Hussein’s assets\, resulting in the return of over $3 billion of Iraqi assets.  Mr. Zarate served at the Treasury Department from 2001 to 2005\, where he received the Treasury Medal. \nPrior to working at the Department of the Treasury\, Mr. Zarate served as a prosecutor in the Department of Justice’s Terrorism and Violent Crime Section\, where he worked on terrorism cases\, including the USS Cole investigation.  Mr. Zarate previously worked as a federal law clerk for Chief Judge Judith Keep in the Southern District of California. Mr. Zarate is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard University and a cum laude graduate of the Harvard Law School.  He studied as a Rotary International Fellow at the Universidad de Salamanca\, Spain. \nMr. Zarate is a noted commentator on national security issues with a weekly CBS News show\, “Flash Points”.  He is a recognized author with numerous publications\, including “Harnessing the Financial Furies: Smart Financial Power and National Security\,” Washington Quarterly (October 2009); “The Emergence of a New Dog of War: Private International Security Companies\, International Law\, and the New World Disorder\,” Stanford Journal of Int’l Law (1998); and Forging Democracy: A Comparative Study of the Effects of U.S. Foreign Policy on Central American Democratization (University Press of America\, 1994). \nModerator \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law.  She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com. She is co-editor with Joshua L. Dratel of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2008) and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, editor of the books The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press\, 2006) and Al Qaeda Now (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, and editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security.  Her work is featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, TomDispatch.com\, and on major news channels.  She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \n  \n 
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/threat-today-assessment/
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SUMMARY:Obama and the 9/11 Trials: A Conversation on Security\, Justice\, and Realism
DESCRIPTION:Obama and the 9/11 Trials: A Conversation on Security\, Justice\, and Realism \nVideo available on CSPAN\n\nSpeaker Bios \nColonel 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 Commissions at Guantanamo Bay\, Cuba.  He led a multi-agency prosecution task force of more than 100 personnel from the Department of Defense\, Department of Justice\, Central Intelligence Agency\, Federal Bureau of Investigation\, and other federal agencies.  For nearly two years he was one of the leading advocates for military commissions and the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.  He resigned as chief prosecutor in October 2007 because of his objection to the use of evidence obtained by torture and growing political interference in the military commissions\, and he became a critic of the process he once defended.  His final assignment before retiring from the military was as the Director of the Air Force Judiciary where he oversaw the Air Force criminal justice system and supervised nearly 265 people at sites worldwide. \nMorris Davis earned a BS in criminal justice from Appalachian State University\, a JD from North Carolina Central University School of Law\, a LLM in government procurement law from George Washington University School of Law\, and a LLM in military law from the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General School.  His military decorations include the Legion of Merit\, six Meritorious Service Medals\, the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal\, and Global War on Terrorism Service Medal.  He was included in the Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington report\, Those Who Dared: 30 Officials Who Stood Up for Our County\,in July 2008 and he received the Justice Charles E. Whittaker Award presented by the Lawyers Association of Kansas City in November 2009. \n  \nJoshua L. Dratel is an attorney in New York City\, and practices criminal defense law in the state and federal courts.  Mr. Dratel has been defense counsel in several terrorism and national security prosecutions\, including that of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen\, who was acquitted in federal court in Idaho in 2004; Wadih El-Hage\, a defendant in United States v. Usama bin Laden\, which involved the August 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; and Mohamed Suleiman al-Nalfi\, another defendant in the Embassy Bombings case.  He was also lead counsel for David Hicks\, an Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay\, Cuba\, in Mr. Hicks’s prosecution by U.S. military commission\, and currently represents Mohamed El-Mezain\, a defendant in the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development\, and\, for sentencing and on appeal\, Lynne Stewart\, a New York lawyer convicted of material support for terrorism.  He is a past president of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2005). \nHe has appeared on panels\, and on ABC’s Nightline\, with regard to the issue of civil liberties and security in the wake of the events of September 11\, 2001.  He is a co-author of the 2003 Supplement of Practice Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines\, and his articles on a variety of criminal law subjects have appeared inThe Champion\, The Mouthpiece\, and Criminal Justice Weekly.  He is co-editor with Karen J. Greenberg ofThe Torture Papers: The Legal Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, a compendium of government memoranda\, and The Enemy Combatant Papers:  American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2008). He is a 1978 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia College\, and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School. \n\nAnthony D. Romero is the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union\, the nation’s premier defender of liberty and individual freedom. He took the helm of the organization just four days before the September 11\, 2001 attacks. Shortly afterward\, the ACLU launched its national Safe and Free campaign to protect basic freedoms during a time of crisis. Under Romero’s leadership\, the ACLU gained court victories on the Patriot Act\, filed landmark litigation on the torture and abuse of detainees in U.S. custody\, and filed the first successful legal challenge to the Bush administration’s illegal NSA spying program. \nRomero\, an attorney with a history of public-interest activism\, has presided over the most successful membership growth in the ACLU’s history and more than doubled national staff and tripled the budget of the organization since he began his tenure. This unprecedented growth has allowed the ACLU to expand its nationwide litigation\, lobbying and public education efforts\, including new initiatives focused on racial justice\, religious freedom\, privacy\, reproductive freedom\, and LGBT rights. Romero is the ACLU’s sixth executive director\, and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity. \nIn 2005\, Romero was named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America\, and has received dozens of public service awards and an honorary doctorate from the City University of New York School of Law. In 2007\, Romero and co-author Dina Temple-Raston published In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror\, which takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines of the fight for civil liberties\, In Defense of Our America takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America to illustrate the dangerous erosion of the Bill of Rights in the age of terror. For more information about the book\, visit www.aclu.org/ouramerica. \nBorn in New York City to parents who hailed from Puerto Rico\, Romero was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He is a graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. He is a member of the New York Bar Association and has sat on numerous nonprofit boards. \nModerator \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law.  She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com. She is co-editor with Joshua L. Dratel of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2008) and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, editor of the books The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press\, 2006) and Al Qaeda Now (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, and editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security.  Her work is featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, TomDispatch.com\, and on major news channels.  She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/obama-911-trials-conversation-security-justice-realism/
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Glenn Greenwald
DESCRIPTION:Video from this event is available here.  \nSPEAKER BIOS \nGlenn 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 A Tragic Legacy”(June\, 2007)\, which examines the Bush legacy. My most recent book\, Great American Hypocrites examines the manipulative electoral tactics used by the GOP and propagated by the establishment press\, and was released in April\, 2008\, by Random House/Crown. \nModerator \nStephen Holmes is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. His fields of specialization include the history of liberalism\, the disappointments of democratization after communism\, and the difficulty of combating terrorism within the limits of liberal constitutionalism. In 2003\, he was selected as a Carnegie Scholar. From 1997 to 2000\, he was a professor of politics at Princeton. From 1985 to 1997\, he was professor of politics and law at the Law School and Political Science Department of the University of Chicago. From 1979 to 1985\, he taught at the Department of Government at Harvard University. He was also the editor-in-chief of the East European Constitu tional Review from 1993-2003. He is the author of Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Yale University Press\, 1984)\, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Harvard University Press\, 1993)\, Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (University of Chicago Press\, 1995)\, and co-author (with Cass Sunstein) of The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (Norton\, 1999)\, and most recently\, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2007).
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/conversation-glenn-greenwald/
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SUMMARY:Al Qaeda Now: Networks\, Strategies\, Goals
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bios  \nPeter 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. \nBergen has written about al Qaeda\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Iraq and counterterrorism for a range of American newspapers and magazines including the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, The New Republic\, Foreign Affairs\, The Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, TIME\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, Washington Times and Vanity Fair. He has also written for newspapers and magazines around the world such as The Guardian\, The Times\, The Daily Telegraph\, International Herald Tribune\, Prospect\, El Mundo\, and Die Welt. And he has worked as a correspondent for National Geographic Television\, Discovery Television and CNN reporting from Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, Kazakhstan\, Ukraine\, Russia\, Singapore\, Yemen\, Mexico and Indonesia. From 2003-2007 he taught at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University and at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 2008. \nHis most recent book is The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (Free Press\, 2006). It was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2006 by The Washington Post. “The Osama bin Laden I Know” was translated into French\, Spanish and Polish\, and CNN produced a two hour documentary\, “In the Footsteps of bin Laden”\, based on the book. Bergen was one of the producers of the CNN documentary\, which was named the best documentary of 2006 by the Society of Professional Journalists and was nominated for an Emmy. Bergen is also the author of Holy War\, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden. (Free Press\, 2001). Holy War\, Inc. was a New York Times bestseller\, has been translated into eighteen languages and was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2001 by The Washington Post. A documentary based on Holy War\, Inc.\, which aired on National Geographic Television\, was nominated for an Emmy in 2002. Bergen was the recipient of the 2000 Leonard Silk Journalism Fellowship and was the Pew Journalist in Residence at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University in2001 while writingHoly War\, Inc. Bergen has a M.A. in Modern History from New College\, Oxford University.\nRoger Cressey is the President and founder of Good Harbor Consulting\, LLC\, a security and risk management consulting firm based in Arlington\, VA and a fellow at The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law.  Prior to starting Good Harbor\, Roger served in senior cyber security and counterterrorism positions in the Clinton and Bush Administrations.   At the White House\, he was the Deputy for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council staff from November 1999 to November 2001.  He was responsible for the coordination and implementation of US counterterrorism policy and managed the US Government response to multiple terrorism incidents\, including the Millennium terror alert\, the USS COLE attack\, and the September 11th attacks.   For the past six years\, he has been an on-air counterterrorism analyst for NBC News\, appearing frequently on NBC Nightly News\, The Today Show and MSNBC.  He is also regularly interviewed on radio and is quoted in US and international media publications. \nPrior to his White House service\, Mr. Cressey served in the Department of Defense\, where he worked on US defense strategy and the review of the Pentagon’s war plans. From 1991–1995\, he served in the Department of State working on Middle East security issues\, including serving a member of the US delegation to the multilateral track of the Arab-Israeli peace process talks.  Roger’s overseas experience includes serving as a political military officer with the US Embassy in Israel and with UN peacekeeping operations in Somalia and the former Yugoslavia.   While in the former Yugoslavia\, he was part of a United Nations team that planned the successful capture of the first individual indicted for war crimes in Croatia. From 2001 – 2006\, he taught a graduate course on U.S. counterterrorism policy at Georgetown University.  Roger received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University.  He is the recipient of the State Department’s Meritorious and Superior Honor Awards and the Defense Department’s Exceptional Civilian Service Award. \nThomas Hegghammer is an academic specializing in the study of violent Islamism. He is currently a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, an associate at Harvard Kennedy School and a senior research fellow at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) in Oslo. He holds a PhD in political science from Sciences-Po in Paris and an MA and MPhil in Middle Eastern Studies from Oxford University. A fluent Arabic speaker\, Dr. Hegghammer has conducted extensive field research in the Middle East. His research focuses on jihadi ideology\, jihadism on the Arabian Peninsula and the history of the foreign fighter phenomenon. He is the author of the forthcoming book Jihad in Saudi Arabia (Cambridge University Press) and the co-author of al-Qaida in its own words (Harvard University Press\, 2008). He is currently working on a book about the jihadi ideologue Abdallah Azzam and Arab involvement in the 1980s war in Afghanistan. Thomas also edits Jihadica\, a blog devoted to the analysis of jihadi websites (a Technorati top 100 blog in world politics).\nEvan Kohlmann is a private sector International Terrorism Consultant who has spent over a decade tracking Al-Qaida and other terrorist organizations.  During the course of his research\, Mr. Kohlmann has amassed one of the largest and most extensive open source databases in the world of original documents\, communiqués\, and multimedia.  He currently works as a senior investigator for the Nine Eleven Finding Answers (NEFA) Foundation–and has also served at various times as a contract consultant in terrorism matters on behalf of the U.S. Department of Defense\, the U.S. Department of Justice\, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)\, the Office of the High Representative (OHR) in Bosnia-Herzegovina\, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTFY) at the Hague\, the Australian Federal Police (AFP)\, the U.K. Crown Prosecution Service (CPS)\, Scotland Yard’s SO-15 Counter Terrorism Command\, the Central Scotland Police\, West Yorkshire Police\, and the Danish Security and Intelligence Service (PET). \nModerator \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law.  She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, which was selected as one of the best books of 2009 by The Washington Post and Slate.com. She is co-editor with Joshua L. Dratel of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2008) and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, editor of the books The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press\, 2006) and Al Qaeda Now (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, and editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security.  Her work is featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, TomDispatch.com\, and on major news channels.  She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/al-qaeda-now-networks-strategies-goals/
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SUMMARY:The Human Scale by Lawrence Wright
DESCRIPTION:A One-Man Performance by Lawrence Wright\,\nauthor of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11\nPresented by The Center on Law and Security\nat NYU School of Law\nfor one night only! \nThursday\, December 3rd\n8:00 p.m.\n3 Legged Dog Media and Theater Group\,\n80 Greenwich St.\n(between Rector and Edgar Streets) \nFollowing up on his essay Captives in the November 9th issue of The New Yorker\, Lawrence Wright\, Pulitzer-Prize winning author\, screenwriter\, and playwright of My Trip to Al Qaeda\, will premier his newest work\, The Human Scale – another philosophical exploration into one of the most searing political conflicts of our day. \nLawrence Wright is an author\, screenwriter\, playwright\, fellow at the Center on Law and Security\, and a staff writer for The New Yorker. \nHe is a graduate of Tulane University\, in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, and the American University in Cairo\, where he taught English and received an M.A. in Applied Linguistics in 1969. Upon his return to the U.S. in 1971\, Wright began his writing career at the Race Relations Reporter in Nashville\, Tennessee. Two years later\, he went to work for Southern Voices\, a publication of the Southern Regional Council in Atlanta\, Georgia\, and began to freelance for various national magazines. In 1980\, Wright returned to Texas to work for Texas Monthly. He also became a contributing editor to Rolling Stone. In December\, 1992\, he joined the staff of The New Yorker\, where he published a number of notable articles\, which have won him the National Magazine Award for Reporting as well as the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism\, and Overseas Press Club’s Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting. \nWright is the co-writer (with Ed Zwick and Menno Meyjes) of The Siege\, starring Denzel Washington\, Bruce Willis and Annette Bening\, which appeared in November 1998. He also wrote the script of the Showtime movie\, Noriega: God’s Favorite\, directed by Roger Spottiswoode and starring Bob Hoskins\, which aired in April 2000. \nHis history of al-Qaeda\, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf\, 2006) was published to immediate and widespread acclaim\, spending eight weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and being translated into twenty-five languages. It was nominated for the National Book Award and won the Lionel Gelber Award for nonfiction\, the Los Angeles Times Award for History\, the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize\, the New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism\, and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. \nIn 2006\, he premiered his one-man play\, “My Trip to al-Qaeda\,” at The New Yorker Festival\, and then enjoyed a sold-out six-week run at the Culture Project in Soho. It is now being made into a documentary film\, directed by Alex Gibney\, who won the 2008 Academy Award for Feature Documentary. \nWright has published six previous books. City Children\, Country Summer (Scribner’s\, 1979)\, In the New World: Growing Up with America\, 1960 – 1984 (Knopf\, 1988)\, Saints & Sinners (Knopf\, 1993)\, Remembering Satan (Knopf\, 1994)\, Twins: Genes\, Environment\, and the Mystery of Identity (Weidenfeld & Nicholson\, 1997; Wiley & Sons\, 1998)\, and God’s Favorite (Simon & Schuster\, 2000). \nWright is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves as the keyboard player in the Austin-based blues band\, Who Do.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/human-scale-lawrence-wright/
LOCATION:3 Legged Dog Media and Theater Group\, 80 Greenwich St\, New York\, New York\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T041500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20091120T120000
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T015750Z
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SUMMARY:Counterinsurgency: America's Strategic Burden
DESCRIPTION:Featuring \n\nLt. Col. John Nagl (Ret.)\, president\, Center for a New American Security\nDavid Kilcullen\, The Crumpton Group\nJanine Davidson\, U.S. Department of Defense\nRoger Cressey\, Good Harbor Consulting\, former NSC Staff Member\nMichael Sheehan\, Torch Hill Partners\, former Deputy for Counterterrorism\, NYPD\nPeter Bergen\, CNN Terrorism Analyst\, author of The Osama bin Laden I Know\nSteven Simon\, Senior Fellow\, Council on Foreign Relations\nChristine Fair\, Senior Political Scientist\, RAND Corporation\nMontgomery McFate\, Senior Social Scientist\, US Army Human Terrain System\nSteve Fondacero\, Program Manager\, US Army Human Terrain System\nNir Rosen\, journalist\nCol. Pat Lang\, Retired Army\, former Defense Intelligence Agency\nDr. Conrad Crane\, Director\, US Army Military History Institute\nThomas Johnson Director\, Program for Culture & Conflict Studies\, Naval Postgraduate School\nAdam Silverman\, Social Science Advisor for Strategic Communications\, US Army’s Human Terrain System\nCol. Martin Stanton\, US Army\nJoanna Nathan\, currently undertaking a mid-career masters at Princeton University. Senior analyst for the International Crisis Group in Kabul from 2005-2009\nKen Silverstein\, journalist\, Harper’s Magazine\nStephen Holmes\, Meyer Professor of Law\, NYU Law\nKaren Greenberg\, Executive Director\, Center on Law and Security\, NYU Law\n\n  \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS \n9:15 a.m.  Welcome and Opening Remarks \n9:30-10:00 a.m. Keynote Speech \n10:00-11:30 a.m. Counterinsurgency Today: Theory vs. Reality \n11:30-1:00 p.m. Lessons from the Past: Counterinsurgency in History \n1:00-2:00 p.m. Lunch Break \n2:00-3:30 p.m. Assessing Afghanistan \n3:30-5:00 p.m. What Lies Ahead \n  \nLinks to view video of the conference are here: (REAL PLAYER UPDATE REQUIRED) \nhttp://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Welcome.rv \nhttp://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Theory_Reality.rv \nhttp://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Lessons.rv \nhttp://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyut /20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_Assessing_Afghanistan.rv \nhttp://netvideo.nyu.edu:8080/ramgen/nyutv/20091120_Law_Counterinsurgency_What_Lies_Ahead.rv
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/counterinsurgency-americas-strategic-burden/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091112
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T020103Z
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SUMMARY:National Security: The Way Forward
DESCRIPTION: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\, 1991)\, The Shield of Achilles: War\, Peace and the Course of History (Knopf\, 2002)\, and\, most recently\, Terror and Consent (Knopf\, 2008).  \nPhilip Bobbitt is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a Fellow of the Club of Madrid. He is a Life Member of the American Law Institute\, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Pacific Council on International Policy\, the International Institute for Strategic Studies and the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. He is a member of the Commission on the Continuity of Government. He has served as Law Clerk to the Hon. Henry J. Friendly (2 Cir.)\, Associate Counsel to the President\, the Counselor on International Law at the State Department\, Legal Counsel to the Senate Iran-Contra Committee\, and Director for Intelligence\, Senior Director for Critical Infrastructure and Senior Director for Strategic Planning at the National Security Council. Before coming to Columbia he was A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law at the University of Texas Law School. He is a former trustee of Princeton University; and a former member of the Oxford University Modern History Faculty and the War Studies Department of Kings College\, London. He serves on the Editorial Board of Biosecurity and Bioterrorism. For the Fall term 2005\, he was the James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. For the Spring term 2007\, he was the Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia Law School at the conclusion of which he joined the faculty of Columbia Law School. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas.  \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security at the NYU School of Law.  She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, co-editor with Joshua L. Dratel of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2008) and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, editor of the books The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press\, 2006) and Al Qaeda Now (Cambridge University Press\, 2005)\, and editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security.  Her work is featured in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, TomDispatch.com\, and on major news channels.  She is a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/national-security-way-forward/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091011
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091013
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T020454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T213025Z
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SUMMARY:Turmoil in Iran: Passion and Protest in the Islamic Republic
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS  \nHooman 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 Republic\, The Financial Times\, The New York Observer\, Interview\, and Salon\, and has been a regular contributor to The Huffington Post from its inception. He lives in New York City and travels regularly back to Iran. \nDr. Trita Parsi is the author of Treacherous Alliance – The Secret Dealings of Iran\, Israel and the United States (Yale University Press\, 2007)\, recipient of the Council on Foreign Relations 2008 Arthur Ross Book Award Silver Medallion. He wrote his Doctoral thesis on Israeli-Iranian relations under Professor Francis Fukuyama (and Drs. Zbigniew Brzezinski\, R. K. Ramazani\, Jakub Grygiel\, Charles Doran) at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies while heading the largest Iranian-American organization in the US\, the National Iranian American Council (NIAC). \nKarim Sadjadpour is an associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He joined Carnegie after four years as the chief Iran analyst at the International Crisis Group based in Tehran and Washington\, D.C. He is a regular contributor to BBC World TV and radio\, CNN\, National Public Radio\, and PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, and has written for the Economist\, Washington Post\, New York Times\, International Herald Tribune\, and New Republic. He has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\, and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards\, including a Fulbright scholarship. Sadjadpour was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos\, and is a board member of the Banu Foundation\, an organization dedicated to assisting grass-roots organizations that are empowering women worldwide. He has lived in Latin America\, Europe\, and the Middle East.  \nModerator \nGary Sick is a senior research scholar at Columbia University’s Middle East Institute\, and an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs. He is the author of All Fall Down: America’s Tragic Encounter With Iran (Random House 1985) and October Surprise: America’s Hostages in Iran and the Election of Ronald Reagan (Random House 1991). Professor Sick served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford\, Carter\, and Reagan. He received his BA from Kansas University in 1957 and a Master of Science from George Washington University in 1970. In 1973 he earned a PhD from Columbia University.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/turmoil-iran-passion-protest-islamic-republic/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20091008
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20091010
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T021117Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T214618Z
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SUMMARY:Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement that Shattered the Party
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nMax Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and blogger whose articles and video documentaries have appeared in The Daily Beast\, The Nation\, The Huffington Post\, Salon.com\, Al Jazeera English and many other publications. He is a senior writer for The Daily Beast and a writing fellow for the Nation Institute. His book\, Republican Gomorrah: Inside The Movement That Shattered The Party\, will be in stores on September 1\, 2009. \nJoe Conason is a national correspondent for The New York Observer\, where he writes a weekly column distributed by Creators Syndicate. He is also a columnist for Salon.com\, and the Director of the Nation Institute Investigative Fund. His books Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How It Distorts the Truth\, and The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton\, with Gene Lyons\, were both national bestsellers; his latest book\, It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush\, was released in February 2007. His writing and reporting have appeared in many publications\, including Harpers\, The Guardian\, The Nation\, and The New Republic. He also appears frequently on television and radio (notably as a regular Friday guest on Air America’s The Al Franken Show). He lives with his wife in New York City.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/republican-gomorrah-inside-movement-shattered-party/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090920
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090922
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T021607Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T213430Z
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SUMMARY:Detainees in America: The Next Chapter
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nJoshua Dratel is an attorney in New York City\, and practices criminal defense law in the state and federal courts.  In his 28 years as a lawyer\, his practice has included a wide range of matters\, including “white collar\,” “organized crime\,” drugs\, sex offenses\, and capital cases.  Mr. Dratel has been defense counsel in several terrorism and national security prosecutions\, including that of Sami Omar Al-Hussayen\, who was acquitted in federal court in Idaho in 2004;  Wadih El-Hage\, a defendant in United States v. Usama bin Laden\, which involved the August 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania;  and Mohamed Suleiman al-Nalfi\, another defendant in the Embassy Bombings case.  He was also lead counsel for David Hicks\, an Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay\, Cuba\, in Mr. Hicks’s prosecution by U.S. military commission\, and currently represents Mohamed El-Mezain\, a defendant in the federal prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development\, and\, for sentencing and on appeal\, Lynne Stewart\, a New York lawyer convicted of material support for terrorism.  He is a past President of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2005). He has written and lectured widely on terrorism issues\, including torture\, the USA PATRIOT Act\, the Classified Information Procedures Act\, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\, and his articles on some of those subjects have appeared in the CARDOZO PUBLIC LAW\, POLICY AND ETHICS JOURNAL and the NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LAW REVIEW.  He has appeared on panels\, and on ABC Nightline\, with regard to the issue of civil liberties and security in the wake of the events of September 11\, 2001.  He is a co-author of the 2003 Supplement of Practice Under the Federal Sentencing Guidelines\, and his articles on a variety of criminal law subjects have appeared in The Champion\, The Mouthpiece\, and Criminal Justice Weekly.  He is co-editor with Karen J. Greenberg of The Torture Papers:  The Legal Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press:  2005)\, a compendium of government  memoranda\, and The Enemy Combatant Papers:  American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge Press:  2008).  He is a 1978 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia College\, and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School. \nJonathan Hafetz is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s National Security Project.  Mr. Hafetz has helped coordinate the Guantánamo detainee habeas corpus litigation since its earliest stages. He is counsel in Al-Marri v. Pucciarelli\, a landmark case challenging the indefinite military detention of a lawful resident alien arrested in the United States. He also served as co-counsel in Munaf v. Geren and Omar v. Geren\, cases involving U.S. citizens detained in Iraq that were decided by the Supreme Court in 2008. Mr. Hafetz writes and lectures widely about national security issues\, has testified before Congress as an expert on habeas corpus and is a frequent commentator on national security issues. Mr. Hafetz previously served as Litigation Director for the Liberty and National Security Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law. He also formerly served as a Gibbons Fellow in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons\, P.C.\, and as a law clerk to the Hon. Jed S. Rakoff\, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York\, and Sandra L. Lynch\, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.  \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security. She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days \, editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security\, co-editor of the Center’s newest publication\, The Enemy Combatants Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, August 2008)\, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib\, and editor of the books Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press).  \nShe previously taught courses in the European Studies Department at New York University. She served as the co-chair to then Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Homeland Security transition committee\, where she advised the Governor-Elect on the major challenges facing New York State. She is a frequent writer and commentator on terrorism\, international law\, the war on terror\, and detainee issues.  Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The American Prospect\, and on major news channels.  She has served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the NY Council for the Humanities\, the NYC Board of Education\, and USAID.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/detainees-america-next-chapter/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090428
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090430
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T022447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T214831Z
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SUMMARY:Today's Military: Its Challenges\, Missions\, and Future
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nGeneral John P. Abizaid\, USA (Ret.)\nLt. Gen. David W. Barno\, USA (Ret.)\nPhilip Carter\nKathy Roth Douquet\nKaren J. Greenberg\nEric Greitens\nJames Jacobs\nMark Jacobson\nFred Kaplan\nColonel W. Pat Lang\, USA (Ret.)\nDr. John A. Nagl\nTimothy Nichols\nSuzanne Nossel\nFrank Schaeffer\nShanea Watkins\n\nSchedule of Events \n9:15 a.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks \nKaren J. Greenberg\, Executive Director\, Center on Law and Security \nKeynote Address \nGeneral John P. Abizaid\, USA (Ret.) Former Commander\, U.S. Central Command \n9:45-11:00 a.m. – Civilian-Military Relations Now \nLt. Gen. David Barno\, Philip Carter\, W. Pat Lang\, Suzanne Nossel \n11:00-12:15 p.m. – The Military’s Makeup: Who Serves Today \nKathy Roth Douquet\, Jim Jacobs\, Tim Nichols\, Frank Schaeffer\, Shanea Watkins \n12:15-1:30 p.m. – Lunch Break \n1:45-3:00 p.m. – Iraq\, Afghanistan\, and The U.S. Military: How the Wars Have Shaped the Armed Services \nEric Greitens\, Mark Jacobson\, Fred Kaplan\, Dr. John Nagl
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/todays-military-challenges-missions-future/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090415T051500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090415T114500
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
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SUMMARY:The Courts and Terrorism: Transatlantic Observations
DESCRIPTION:This conference\, hosted in partnership with the Magna Carta Institute\, will focus on courts\, national security\, and how transatlantic counterparts handle alleged terrorism suspects through the criminal justice system. \nParticipants will consider lessons learned before and after 9/11 regarding matters of detention\, evidentiary standards\, and trial procedure in terrorism cases; the differences among countries; the successes and failures of different strategies\, and the potential need for structural and statutory reforms. Some of the details involved in these courts would introduce elements that are currently in place in the European and British judicial systems\, among them extended pre-trial detention\, and special evidentiary standards – the focus of the day’s discussion. In addition to lessons learned\, the panels will examine the viability and potential benefits of enhancing the compatibilities among countries in the transatlantic alliance. \nSCHEDULE OF EVENTS \n9:15 a.m. \nKeynote \n10:00-11:30 a.m. \nTerrorism\, the Courts\, and National Security: An Overview \nJudge Kenneth Karas\, Peter Clarke\, Dr. Didier Rouget \nModerator: Karen Greenberg \nNational security courts raise the specter of protecting classified information that could be harmful to national security. What does the European experience tell us\, if anything\, about the need for special evidentiary standards for terrorism trials?  What does the American experience with terrorism trials – beginning with the trial for the first World Trade Center bombing and extending to the present day?  Specifically\, is anything needed beyond the Classified Information Procedures Act [CIPA] that currently applies to Article 3 courts? What protections does CIPA provide the government? What is lacking in this regard in the system as it now stands? How might further protections undermine the fairness of the system for defendants? Will changes in evidentiary standards enhance the effectiveness of transatlantic cooperation? \n11:30-1:00 p.m. \nTerrorism Trials: National and International \nMarshall Miller\, Ed O’Callahan\, Barry Sabin\, Jean-Marc Sorel \nModerator: Rick Pildes \nTerrorism cases are often international not only in scope but in the location of witnesses and defendants. How do panelists assess the difficulties of trying cases where defendants and/or witnesses are located in more than one country? What new measures might be introduced to make the taking of depositions of persons in foreign countries more viable?  How should these depositions be arranged with countries that do not have appropriate relations with the US? How might this impact US cases as well as the transatlantic judicial relationship? Overall\, this area of inquiry relies on the definition of terrorism. Given that fact\, is it possible to protect international criminal prosecutions from becoming politicized?  Specifically\, to what extent might the internationalization of criminal prosecutions politicize the process in a manner that would create more conflict and potentially impair justice? \n1:00-2:00 p.m. \nLunch Break \n2:15-3:45 p.m. \nDetention and Systemic Challenges \nStephen Schulhofer\, Joshua Dratel\, Gabor Rona\, Dr. Didier Rouget\, Hélène Tigroudja \nModerator: Scott Horton \nHow has pre-trial detention fared in the European system? What safeguards against loopholes and abuses have been built into the system? What benefits would American courts gain by such additions? What might US courts\, its citizens and institutions\, potentially lose with a preventive detention system? How have European courts dealt with issues related to civil liberties and human rights abuses? Can the US foresee a preventive detention statue that meets constitutional standards. \n 
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/courts-terrorism-transatlantic-observations/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090408
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090410
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T024422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240723T173326Z
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SUMMARY:National Security: Can Washington Make it Work?
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nMichael Sheehan is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Law and Security\, security consultant\, and author of the recently published Crush the Cell (Crown\, 2008). He has had a distinguished and uniquely varied career in public service for over 30 years. He is best known for his work in counterterrorism\, peacekeeping and laws enforcement operations. Sheehan was the Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism at the NYPD from 2003 to 2006. Prior to this he was the Assistant Secretary General in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations at the UN \, where he was responsible for mission support to UN military and police peacekeeping forces around the world. In the late 1990s\, Sheehan served as the Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism and Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organizations. Sheehan served at the White House under three National Security Advisors and two Presidents (George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton). Sheehan is a retired LTC of the U.S. Army Special Forces and was awarded the Combat Infantry Badge among other decorations for his service in the Army. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and M.A. from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. \nJames P. Rubin served under President Clinton as Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs\, Chief Spokesman for the State Department and senior policy adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright from 1997 to May 2000. He conducted daily on-camera briefings for the State Department press corps and represented the administration in print\, radio\, and television interviews regarding U.S. diplomatic\, foreign economic and national security policies during this time. After leaving Government in 2000\, Mr. Rubin was appointed as a Visiting Professor of International Relations at the London School of Economics from 2001-2004\, where he taught on US Foreign Policy. During 2002 and 2003 he also hosted the PBS series Wide Angle\, a primetime\, weekly international affairs program. During the 2004 Presidential general election\, Mr. Rubin served as Senior Foreign Policy Adviser to Senator John Kerry. Between October 2005 and July 2006\, Mr. Rubin anchored World News Tonight on SKY News UK\, serving as host of the show\, interviewing guests and offering analysis and commentary. Through 2006 and 2007 he was a World Affairs Commentator and presenter of special programs on international news for SKY. \nMr. Rubin received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science (1982) and a Masters in International Affairs (1984) from Columbia University. In 1998\, Mr. Rubin was the recipient of Columbia University’s John Jay Award for Distinguished Professional Achievement. In 2000\, he received the State Department’s highest honor\, the Distinguished Service Award. Mr. Rubin is Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Partnership\, serves on the boards of Columbia University’s School of International Affairs and the International Rescue Committee UK\, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. \nDavid Rothkopf is the internationally acclaimed author of Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They are Making (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, March 2008)\, now available in over two dozen editions worldwide\, and Running the World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power (PublicAffairs\, 2005)\, hailed by The New York Times as “the definitive history of the National Security Council.” His next book\, on the tug of war between public and private power worldwide and its consequences\, is due out from Farrar Straus & Giroux late this year. \nRothkopf is President and CEO of Garten Rothkopf\, an international advisory firm specializing in transformational trends especially those associated with energy choice and climate change\, emerging markets and global risk. He is a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace where he chairs the Carnegie Economic Strategy Roundtable. He was formerly chief executive of Intellibridge Corporation\, managing director of Kissinger Associates and U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade Policy. \nRothkopf has also taught international affairs and national security studies at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service\, has lectured widely and is the author of over 150 articles for leading publications worldwide. \nModerator \nZoë Baird is president of the Markle Foundation\, a private philanthropy that focuses on using information and communications technologies to address critical public needs\, particularly in the areas of health care and national security. \nMs. Baird’s career spans business\, government\, and academia. She has been senior vice president and general counsel of Aetna\, Inc.\, a senior visiting scholar at Yale Law School\, counselor and staff executive at General Electric\, and a partner in the law firm of O’Melveny & Myers. She was associate general counsel to President Jimmy Carter and an attorney in the Office of Legal Counsel of the Department of Justice. She served on President Clinton’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1993 – 2001 and on the International Competition Policy Advisory Committee to the Attorney General. Ms. Baird served on the Technology & Privacy Advisory Committee to the Secretary of Defense in 2003-2004 and Co-Chairs with Jim Barksdale the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. She participates in the Steering Committee of Markle’s Connecting for Health initiative\, and is on a number of non-profit and corporate boards\, including the Chubb Corporation\, Boston Properties\, and the Brookings Institution.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/national-security-can-washington-make-work/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090331
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090402
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161129T024609Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240723T173721Z
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SUMMARY:Flash Point: India\, Pakistan\, Kashmir
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nPeter 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 World of Bin Laden. (Free Press\, 2001). Holy War\, Inc. was a New York Times bestseller and has been translated into eighteen languages. A documentary based on Holy War\, Inc.\, which aired on National Geographic Television\, was nominated for an Emmy in the research category. His most recent book is The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda’s Leader (Free Press\, 2006).It was named one of the best non-fiction books of 2006 by The Washington Post. Bergen has written for a variety of publications including the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, The New Republic\, Foreign Affairs\, The Washington Post\, Wall Street Journal\, The Atlantic\, Rolling Stone\, TIME\, The Nation\, The National Interest\, Mother Jones\, Washington Times\, Vanity Fair\, The Guardian\, The Times\, The Daily Telegraph and Prospect. He has also worked as a correspondent for National Geographic Television and DiscoveryTelevision. He is on the editorial board of Studies in Conflict& Terrorism\, a leading scholarly journal in the field. In January 2008 Bergen will start teaching at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. \nSteve Coll is President & CEO of New America Foundation\, and a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine. Previously he spent 20 years as a foreign correspondent and senior editor at The Washington Post\, serving as the paper’s managing editor from 1998 to 2004. He is the author of six books\, including The Deal of the Century: The Break Up of AT&T (1986); The Taking of Getty Oil (1987); Eagle on the Street\, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the SEC’s battle with Wall Street (with David A. Vise\, 1991); On the Grand Trunk Road: A Journey into South Asia (1994)\, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA\, Afghanistan and Bin Laden\, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10\, 2001 (2004); and The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century (2008). \nMr. Coll’s professional awards include two Pulitzer Prizes. He won the first of these\, for explanatory journalism\, in 1990\, for his series\, with David A. Vise\, about the SEC. His second was awarded in 2005\, for his book\, Ghost Wars\, which also won the Council on Foreign Relations’ Arthur Ross award; the Overseas Press Club award and the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best book published on international affairs during 2004. Other awards include the 1992 Livingston Award for outstanding foreign reporting; the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Award for his coverage of the civil war in Sierra Leone; and a second Overseas Press Club Award for international magazine writing. Mr. Coll graduated Phi Beta Kappa\, Cum Laude\, from Occidental College in 1980 with a degree in English and history. He lives in Washington\, D.C. \nArif Jamal is a contributing writer to the New York Times. He is currently a fellow at New York University. A leading Pakistani reporter\, he has written for the Pakistan Times. The News\, and international media such as Radio France International and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. \nBasharat Peer\, a journalist from India via Kashmir and New Delhi\, was recently an assistant editor at Foreign Affairs. His new book\, Curfewed Night\, will be published by Scribner this year. He was born in Kashmir in 1977. He studied political science at Aligarh Muslim University and journalism at Columbia University. He has worked as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka and has written for various publications including the Guardian\, Financial Times\, New Statesman and Foreign Affairs. \nABOUT ASIA SOCIETY \nMission \nAsia Society is the leading global and pan-Asian organization working to strengthen relationships and promote understanding among the people\, leaders\, and institutions of the United States and Asia. We seek to increase knowledge and enhance dialogue\, encourage creative expression\, and generate new ideas across the fields of policy\, business\, education\, arts\, and culture. \nHistory \nAsia Society was founded in 1956 by John D. Rockefeller 3rd. Initially established to promote greater knowledge of Asia in the U.S.\, the Society today is a global institution—with offices throughout the U.S. and Asia—that fulfills its educational mandate through a wide range of cross-disciplinary programming. As economies and cultures have become more interconnected\, the Society’s programs have expanded to address Asian American issues\, the effects of globalization\, and pressing concerns in Asia including human rights\, the status of women\, and environmental and global health issues such as HIV/AIDS.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/1855/
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SUMMARY:Closing Guantanamo: The Diplomatic Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Peter Ahearn served two years as a Senior Advisor with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI)\, following a twenty-nine year career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  In this role\, he was responsible for assisting the ODNI in the area of National Intelligence integration\, Human Intelligence policy\, providing guidance on Homeland Security\, National Security and law enforcement intelligence programs\, National Intelligence budget\, and Congressional intelligence oversight matters. \nPrior to his retirement from the FBI in March 2006\, Mr. Ahearn served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility.  After several years investigating White Collar Crime\, Violent Crime\, International Drugs and Organized Crime groups\, Terrorism and National Security matters in Pittsburgh\, PA and Newark\, NJ\, he was promoted to Supervisor of the Newark\, New Jersey\, Division’s Organized Crime/Drug Program\, where he remained until his transfer to FBI Headquarters in May 1991. There he assumed national/international program management responsibility for the FBI’s International Organized Crime operations\, as well as served as an Assistant Inspector in the FBI’s Inspection Division. He was promoted again in January 1996\, as the FBI Liaison Representative to the Office of International Affairs\, Department of Justice\, Washington\, D.C.\, with collateral duties as the FBI Liaison Representative to the Office of National Drug Control Policy from January 1996 through July 1996. \nIn July 1996\, Mr. Ahearn received an appointment as Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) of the FBI’s San Diego\, California\, Division\, with program responsibility for the Organized Crime/Drug and Violent Crime/Major Offender investigative programs\, closely coordinating with Mexican authorities on matters of mutual concern.  On July 20\, 1998\, the Bureau promoted Mr. Ahearn to the Senior Executive Service (SES) and assigned to a joint duty assignment as the Deputy Assistant Administrator of Intelligence for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)\, managing DEA’s domestic and international analytical program. \nIn March 2001\, the Bureau appointed Mr. Ahearn to the position of Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the Buffalo\, New York\, Division\, which was recognized during his tenure with multiple Director’s Awards\, Attorney General’s Awards\, and the Service to America Award for its work in the “Lackawanna Six” international terrorism case and James Charles Kopp anti-abortion terrorist and Teamster Local 91 RICO prosecution in Niagara Falls\, NY. Oversaw close coordination and liaison with Canadian law enforcement and intelligence agency counterparts. Mr. Ahearn graduated from Rutgers University in 1976 with a degree in Business Administration and Accounting.  He owns and operates Ahearn Consulting\, LLC in the Washington\, D.C. area\, a company that provides expertise on National Security and Law Enforcement matters. \nBernard Haykel is Professor of Near Eastern Studies and Director of The Institute for the Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East\, North Africa and Central Asia\, at Princeton University.He was formerly associate professor of Islamic and Middle Eastern History in New York University’s Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies.  Haykel’s primary research interests center on Islamic political movements and legal thought. He has published extensively on the Salafi movement in both its pre-modern and modern manifestations. In particular\, his book entitled Revival and Reform in Islam (Cambridge University Press\, 2003) explores this strand of Islamic legal and political thought. He is presently writing a book on the religious politics of Saudi Arabia since the early 1950s. \nSteven Simon is the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Goldman Sachs visiting professor in public policy at Princeton University. Prior to joining CFR\, Mr. Simon specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation. He came to RAND from London\, where he was the deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) and Carol Deane senior fellow in U.S. security studies. Before moving to Britain in 1999\, Mr. Simon served at the White House for over five years as director for global issues and senior director for transnational threats. During this period\, he was involved in U.S. counterterrorism policy and operations as well as security policy in the Near East and South Asia. These assignments followed a fifteen year career at the U.S. Department of State. \nMr. Simon is the author of the February 2007 Council Special Report “After the Surge: The Case for U.S. Military Disengagement from Iraq.” He is the coauthor of The Age of Sacred Terror (Random House\, 2002)\, which won the Council on Foreign Relations 2004 Arthur Ross Book Award\, and coeditor of Iraq at the Crossroads: State and Society in the Shadow of Regime Change (Oxford University Press/IISS\, 2003). He is also the coauthor of Building a Successful Palestinian State (Rand Corporation\, 2005) and The Arc: A Formal Structure for a Palestinian State (Rand Corporation\, 2005). Most recently\, he coauthored The Next Attack (Henry Holt\, 2005)\, which examines the evolution of the jihad since September 11\, 2001\, and America’s response\, and was a finalist for the Lionel Gelber Prize in 2006. He is working on a new book\, with Daniel Benjamin\, on Muslim integration in Europe. Mr. Simon has published in Time\, the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Financial Times\, the Wall Street Journal\, Christian Science Monitor\, the Washington Times\, Foreign Affairs\, the New Republic\, the New York Review of Books\, Survival\, the National Interest\, World Policy Journal\, and other journals. He is a frequent guest on CNN\, BBC\, ABC\, 60 Minutes\, Nightline\, The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, Fox\, and NPR. Mr. Simon has a BA from Columbia University in classics and Near Eastern languages\, an MTS from the Harvard Divinity School\, and an MPA from Princeton University. He was a university fellow at Brown University and an international affairs fellow at Oxford University. \nMatthew Waxman is associate professor of law at Columbia Law School and adjunct senior fellow for law and U.S. foreign policy at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and a former international affairs fellow at CFR.\nHe previously served as principal deputy director of the State Department’s policy planning staff\, deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs\, director for contingency planning and international justice at the National Security Council\, and special assistant to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. \nMr. Waxman is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School and studied international relations as a Fulbright scholar in the United Kingdom. After law school\, he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter and U.S. Court of Appeals judge Joel M. Flaum. He is a member of the Hoover Institution Task Force on national security and law\, and his publications include The Dynamics of Coercion: American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might (Cambridge University Press\, 2002) (with D. Byman). \nMODERATOR \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security. She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (Oxford University Press). She is also editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security\, co-editor of the Center’s newest publication\, The Enemy Combatants Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge University Press\, August 2008)\, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib\, and editor of the books Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press). \nShe previously taught courses in the European Studies Department at New York University. She is a former Vice-President of the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute and the founding director of the Program in International Education.  Most recently she served as the co-chair to Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Homeland Security transition committee\, where she advised the Governor-Elect\, Lieutenant Governor-Elect and the transition team on the major challenges facing the state. She is a frequent writer and commentator on terrorism\, international law\, the war on terror\, and detainee issues.  Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times\, The San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The American Prospect\, and on major news channels.  She has served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the NY Council for the Humanities\, the NYC Board of Education and USAID.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/closing-guantanamo-diplomatic-challenge/
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SUMMARY:Securing the City: Inside America's Best Counterterrorism Force\, the NYPD
DESCRIPTION:Award-winning author Christopher Dickey\, whose most recent book Securing the City will be published in February 2009\, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine. Previously he worked for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Chris’s Shadowland column\, about counter-terrorism\, espionage and the Middle East\, appears weekly on Newsweek Online. For links to recent columns and articles\, visit the archive. \nChris’s books include With the Contras: A Reporter in the Wilds of Nicaragua (Simon & Schuster\, 1986); Expats: Travels from Tripoli to Tehran (Atlantic Monthly Press\, 1990); Innocent Blood: A Novel (Simon & Schuster\, 1997)\, and Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (Simon & Schuster\, 1998). His most recent novel\, The Sleeper\, was published by Simon & Schuster in September 2004. The New York Times called it “a first-rate thriller.” The Sleeper is now available directly from Simon and Schuster as an e-book. \nHe has also written for Foreign Affairs\, Vanity Fair\, The New Yorker\, Wired\, Rolling Stone\, The New York Review of Books\, The New York Times Book Review\, and The New Republic\, among other publications. He is a frequent commentator on CNN\, MSNBC and National Public Radio\, as well as other television and radio networks. \nChris is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, where he was formerly an Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow; of the Overseas Press Club of America; and of the Anglo-American Press Association of Paris. \nDina Temple-Raston is a national security correspondent for NPR News. Her reporting can be heard on NPR’s newsmagazines. She joined NPR as the FBI correspondent in March 2007 fresh from a two year sabbatical in which she completed two books\, learned Arabic\, and received a Master’s Degree from Columbia. \nA long-time foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Asia\, Temple-Raston opened Bloomberg’s Shanghai and Hong Kong offices working for both Bloomberg’s financial wire and radio operations. She also served as Bloomberg News’ White House correspondent during both Clinton administrations and covered financial markets and economics for both USA Today and CNN. \nTemple-Raston is an award-winning author. Her first book\, on race in America entitled A Death in Texas\, won the Barnes’ and Noble Discover Award and was chosen as one of the Washington Post’s Best Books of 2002. Her second book\, on the role Radio Mille Collines played in fomenting the Rwandan genocide\, was a Foreign Affairs magazine bestseller. She has two books related to civil liberties and national security. The first\, In Defense of Our America (HarperCollins) written with Anthony D. Romero\, the executive director of the ACLU\, looks at civil liberties in post-9/11 America. The other\, The Jihad Next Door (Public Affairs) is about the Lackawanna Six\, America’s first so-called “sleeper cell.”
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/securing-city-inside-americas-best-counterterrorism-force-nypd/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20090127
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20090129
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SUMMARY:World at Risk: WMDs and the Spectre of Future Terror
DESCRIPTION:Senator Bob Graham is the former two–term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This is combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature for a total of 38 years of public service. As Governor and Senator\, Bob Graham was a centrist\, committed to bringing his colleagues together behind programs that served the broadest public interest. He was recognized by the people of Florida when he received an 83% approval ranking as he concluded eight years as Governor. Bob Graham retired from public service in January 2005\, following his Presidential campaign in 2004. \nBob Graham is recognized for his leadership on issues ranging from healthcare and environmental preservation to his ten years of service on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence — including eighteen months as chairman in 2001–2002. Following the release of the Joint Inquiry’s final report in July 2003\, Senator Graham steadfastly advocated reform of the intelligence community and sponsored legislation to bring about needed changes. In the fall of 2004 Senator Graham authored “Intelligence Matters” based upon his experiences gleaned during the joint inquiry and his analysis of the run up to the Iraq war. \nAfter retiring from public life\, Senator Graham served for a year as a senior fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he lectured to undergraduate\, graduate and executive management students. His primary focus was on civic education and intelligence. These issues continue to be of great importance to Senator Graham. He is currently researching and writing a book about civic participation\, tentatively entitled “What Citizens Need to Know to Make Democracy Respond;” “Intelligence Matters” will be published as a paperback with updating in the fall of 2008. \nSenator Graham has also been a regular contributor to National Public Radio’s Morning Edition\, a frequent guest on CNN\, Fox and MSNBC news\, and has written opinion editorials for newspapers. Since retirement\, his commentaries have appeared in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Financial Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Boston Globe\, Charlotte Observer\, Washington Times\, Miami Herald\, Orlando Sentinel\, St. Petersburg Times\, South Florida Sun Sentinel\, Sarasota Herald Tribune\, Gainesville Sun\, Palm Beach Post\, Tallahassee Democrat and the Tampa Tribune. \nSenator Graham serves as the chair of the Board of Overseers of the Graham Center for Public Service. This Center\, with a home at the University of Florida and the University of Miami\, commenced programs in the fall of 2007 in the areas of Public Service\, Homeland Security\, and The Americas\, subjects in which he has been deeply involved during his public career. \nTo her current position as Principal\, Olivet Consulting\, LLC\, Robin Cleveland brings her clients three decades of extensive legislative\, management\, budget and policy experience in national security and international economic and development affairs. She has served as the Counselor to the President of the World Bank\, Associate Director at the White House Office of Management and Budget and in a variety of key positions with Senator Mitch McConnell on the Senate Intelligence Committee\, Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee. Ms Cleveland co-authored two Presidential initiatives\, the Millennium Challenge Corporation and the President’s Emergency Plan For AIDs Relief\, reflecting her experience linking policy\, performance and resource management. Ms. Cleveland graduated from Wesleyan University with honors. \nMs. Frances Fragos Townsend was appointed Homeland Security Advisor by the President on May 28th\, 2004. Ms. Townsend chaired the Homeland Security Council and reported to the President on United States Homeland Security policy and Combating Terrorism matters. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Combating Terrorism. \nMs. Townsend came to the White House from the U. S. Coast Guard\, where she had served as Assistant Commandant for Intelligence. Prior to that\, Ms. Townsend spent 13 years at the U. S. Department of Justice in a variety of senior positions\, her last assignment as Counsel to the Attorney General for Intelligence Policy. Ms. Townsend began her prosecutorial career in 1985\, serving as an Assistant District Attorney in Brooklyn\, New York. \nIn 1988\, she joined the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York where she focused on international organized crime and white-collar crime cases. In 1991\, she worked in the Office of the Attorney General to assist in establishing the newly created Office of International Programs\, the predecessor to the Executive Office for National Security. In December 1993\, she joined the Criminal Division where she served as Chief of Staff to the Assistant Attorney General and played a critical part in establishing the Division’s international training and rule of law programs. \nFrom November of 1995 to November of 1997\, Ms. Townsend was Director of the Office of International Affairs in the Criminal Division\, which serves as the U. S. Central Authority for extradition and mutual legal assistance\, and works with the Department of State in the negotiation of international law enforcement treaties. In November of 1997\, Ms. Townsend was appointed as Acting Deputy Assistant Attorney General\, Criminal Division\, where she oversaw international law enforcement and training matters in the Criminal Division\, and acted as an advisor to the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General on international law enforcement policy. \nIn March of 1998\, Ms. Townsend was appointed Counsel for Intelligence Policy\, managing matters related to national security policy and operations for the Department of Justice. In this capacity she headed the office of Intelligence Policy and Review\, an office that provides legal advice and recommendations to the Attorney General and the Department of Justice regarding national security matters\, reviews executive orders\, directives and procedures relating to the intelligence community\, and approves certain intelligence-gathering activities\, especially those matters related to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. \nMichael Sheehan is a distinguished fellow at The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law\, where he researched the For The Record publication\, and authored his book\, Crush the Cell: How to Defeat Terrorism without Terrorizing Ourselves. Ambassador Sheehan is the Partner and Co-Chair\, Professional Partners Group\, at TorchHill Investment Partners where he directs deal sourcing in the civil and corporate security arena. Former Deputy Commissioner of Counter Terrorism at NYPD\, he was instrumental in shaping the counter-terrorism strategy for New York City following September 11th. He has previously served as Ambassador-at-Large for Counter Terrorism at the State Department\, as a Director on the National Security Council staff\, and as a US Army Special Forces officer. He is a distinguished fellow at the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point and is an NBC news analyst for terrorism and security issues. \nHe is best known for his work in the fields of counterterrorism at the local\, national and international levels. Prior to his position at the NYPD\,  Sheehan  was appointed by Kofi Annan as the United Nations Assistant Secretary General in the Department of Peacekeeping Operations\, where he was responsible for oversight of military and police peacekeeping forces around the world. Commissioner Sheehan’s counterterrorism record extends back to the 1990s\, when\, following the embassy bombings in East Africa\, he became the Department of State’s Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism. Upon retiring from the Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1997\, Sheehan was appointed a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of International Organizations\, where he focused on international policing in Bosnia and Kosovo. He has served under three National Security Advisors and two Presidents (George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton). He holds a B.A. from West Point\, an M.A. from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and an M.A. from the U.S. Army Command/General Staff College.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/world-risk-wmds-spectre-future-terror/
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SUMMARY:After Torture: Discussing a Plan for Justice in the Post-Bush Era
DESCRIPTION:An Open Forum hosted by the Center on Law and Security and Harper’s Magazine \nOn publication of contributing editor Scott Horton’s report\, Justice After Bush\, in the December issue of Harper’s Magazine\, a panel of legal experts will discuss methods available to the government with reckoning with a legacy of human rights abuses. \nFeatured Speakers: \n\nThe Honorable Elizabeth Holtzman\, co-chair of Herrick Feinstein LLP’s government relations practice\nScott Horton\, contributor\, Harper’s Magazine and Adjunct Professor\, Columbia Law School\nRepresentative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)\nBurt Neuborne\, Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties\, NYU Law\nMichael Ratner\, president\, Center for Constitutional Rights\nMajor General Antonio Taguba\, U.S. Army\, Ret.\nModerated by Luke Mitchell\, Senior Editor\, Harper’s Magazine
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/torture-discussing-plan-justice-post-bush-era/
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SUMMARY:Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with Gilles Kepel\, Professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques and author of Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East. Moderated by Stephen Holmes\, Meyer Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nGilles Kepel is head of the post-graduate programme on the Arab and Muslim worlds at the Institut d’Études Politiques (Sciences-Po). He holds degrees in Arabic\, English and Philosophy from IEP. Gilles Kepel has published several books on Islam and the Middle East\, including The War for Muslim Minds (2004) and Jihad: The Trail of Political Islam (2002). \nStephen Holmes is the Walter Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. His fields of specialization include the history of liberalism\, the disappointments of democratization after communism\, and the difficulty of combating terrorism within the limits of liberal constitutionalism. His most recent book is The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2007)
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/beyond-terror-martyrdom-future-middle-east/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081112
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SUMMARY:The American Presidency: A Look Forward
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nTed Sorensen\, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy\, and author of Counselor\nSidney Blumenthal\, fellow\, Center on Law and Security\, former senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton\, and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton\nRick Perlstein\, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.\nModerated by Stephen Holmes\, Meyer Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law\n\nSPEAKER BIOS \nTheodore 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 LLP. The former chairman of the firm’s International Practice Committee\, he has represented U.S. and multinational corporations in negotiations with governments all over the world and advised and assisted a large number of foreign governments and government leaders\, ranging from the late President Sadat of Egypt to former President Mandela of South Africa. \nSidney Blumenthal is a former senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton\, and President Bill Clinton. He is regular columnist for the UK newspaper\, The Guardian and a commentator on politics. His columns appear on OpenDemocracy.net\, and Salon.com\, where he was recently the Washington Bureau Chief\, and author of 1800 online pieces. He is currently a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. Books by Blumenthal include: The Clinton Wars\, The Permanent Campaign\, The Rise of the Counter-Establishment\, Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War\, and the recently published\, How Bush Rules\, Chronicles of a Radical Regime (Princeton University Press\, 2006). \nRick Perlstein is the author of the New York Times bestseller Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Scribner). His first book\, Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus\, won the 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Award for history. It appeared on the best books lists that year of the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Chicago Tribune\, and also achieved the status\, in the wake of the Clinton Wars and the 2000 Florida recount\, as one of the very rare books to receive glowing reviews in both left-wing and right-wing publications. From the summer of 2003 until 2005 he covered the presidential campaigns as chief national political correspondent for the Village Voice. He has also published The Stock Ticker and the Superjumbo: How the Democrats Can Once Again Become America’s Dominant Political Party\, an essay with responses from commentators including Robert Reich\, Elaine Kamarck\, and Ruy Teixeira. In 2006 and 2007 he wrote a biweekly column for The New Republic Online; his Nation article “All Aboard the McCain Express” was featured in Best American Political Writing 2008. Perlstein is now senior fellow at the Campaign for America’s Future\, for whom he writes the blog The Big Con. \nMODERATOR \nStephen Holmes is a Faculty Advisor at the Center on Law and Security and the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at NYU School of Law. His fields of specialization include the history of liberalism\, the disappointments of democratization after communism\, and the difficulty of combating terrorism within the limits of liberal constitutionalism. In 2003\, he was selected as a Carnegie Scholar. From 1997 to 2000\, he was a professor of politics at Princeton. From 1985 to 1997\, he was professor of politics and law at the Law School and Political Science Department of the University of Chicago. From 1979 to 1985\, he taught at the Department of Government at Harvard University. He was also the editor-in-chief of the East European Constitutional Review from 1993-2003.  He is the author of Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism (Yale University Press\, 1984)\, The Anatomy of Antiliberalism (Harvard University Press\, 1993)\, Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy (University of Chicago Press\, 1995)\, and co-author (with Cass Sunstein) of The Cost of Rights: Why Liberty Depends on Taxes (Norton\, 1999)\, and most recently\, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to Terror (Cambridge University Press\, 2007).
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/american-presidency-look-forward/
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SUMMARY:Lawrence Wright\, Ayaan Hirsi Ali\, Ebtihal Mubarak\, and others: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nLawrence Wright \nis a Fellow at the Center on Law and Security\, an author\, playwright\, and screenwriter\, and a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.  His book on Al Qaeda\, The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 (Knopf\, 2006)\, won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction and was named one of the top ten books of 2006\, according to both The New York Times and The Washington Post\, and was nominated for the 2006 National Book Award. A portion of that book\, “The Man Behind Bin Laden\,” was published in The New Yorker and won the 2002 Overseas Press Club’s Ed Cunningham Award for best magazine reporting. He has also won the National Magazine Award for Reporting as well as the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism.  Currently he is working on a script for MGM about John O’Neill\, the former head of the FBI’s office of counterterrorism in New York\, who died on 9/11. In 2006\, he premiered his one-man play\, “My Trip to al-Qaeda\,” at The New Yorker Festival\, and then enjoyed a sold-out six-week run at the Culture Project in Soho. \nAyaan Hirsi Ali \nis a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington\, DC. An outspoken defender of women’s rights in Islamic societies\, Ms. Hirsi Ali was born in Mogadishu\, Somalia. She escaped an arranged marriage by immigrating to the Netherlands in 1992\, and served as a member of the Dutch parliament from 2003 to 2006. In 2007\, she published her book\, Infidel. Infidel details the formation of Hirsi Ali’s insights on Islamic reform\, and introduces a path to realizing a fundamental shift of values in modern Muslim society. Tracing not just her personal history but also the history of the militant Islamic movement throughout Africa and the Middle East\, Infidel charts the influences and beliefs that have defined the past thirty years. In parliament\, she worked on furthering the integration of non-Western immigrants into Dutch society\, and on defending the rights of women in Dutch muslim society. In 2004\, together with director Theo van Gogh\, she made Submission\, a film about the oppression of women in conservative Islamic cultures. The airing of the film on Dutch television resulted in the assassination of van Gogh by an Islamic extremist.  At AEI\, Ms. Hirsi Ali will be researching the relationship between the West and Islam; women’s rights in Islam; violence against women propagated by religious and cultural arguments; and Islam in Europe. \nEbtihal Mubarak \nis a 2008 Fellow of the Dag Hammarskjöld Scholarship Fund for Journalists at the United Nations. She is a reporter for the English-language Arab News in Saudi Arabia and reports on the small but growing movement for greater political and social rights for Saudi women and the challenges they face. Among the only 5 percent of Saudi women who work outside the home\, Ms. Mubarak was instrumental in publicizing the case of Fatimah Al Taimani\, forcibly divorced from her husband and then chose imprisonment to escape her half brothers who accused her husband of lying about his tribal affiliations. More recently Ms. Mubarak covered a Saudi rape victim\, known as the “Qatif Girl.” Her reporting was picked up by the international press. At the United Nations\, she intends to seek interviews with as many world figures as possible and “to represent working Saudi women in action.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/lawrence-wright-ayaan-hirsi-ali-ebtihal-mubarak-others-conversation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T050000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081017T120000
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161202T203040Z
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SUMMARY:Afghanistan Today: Drugs\, Detention\, and Counterinsurgency
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law\, co-sponsored by The New America Foundation \nKEYNOTE ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE \nAs the U.S. engages in a simmering war as well as in continued attempts at building infrastructure\, the conference will consider a wide-ranging set of questions in order to clarify policy choices regarding both military and civilian investment in the country. What is the current state of the Taliban? What might the reversion of Afghanistan into failed-state status mean? How prevalent – and how effective – has counterinsurgency been in the country? What are the possibilities for increasing the size of the Afghan army and for embedding U.S. advisors and troops? What role does NATO play? What are the realistic scenarios for stemming the drug trade\, and for mounting reconstruction?  As a result\, the day promises to provide a comprehensive picture of the challenges that face America’s foreign policy establishment as one administration transitions power to the next. \nFeaturing speakers: \n\nAmbassador Richard C. Holbrooke\nSteve Coll\nPeter Bergen\nBarnett Rubin\nScott Horton\nSteve Simon\nDavid Kilcullen\nJoanne Mariner\nImtiaz Ali\nLt. Gen. David Barno\nShuja Nawaz\nLawrence Wright\nElizabeth Rubin\nNir Rosen\nSean Langan\nDoug Wankel\nAndrew Wilder\nStephen Holmes\nKaren Greenberg\nAmbassador Omar Samad\n\n9:00 a.m. Introductory Remarks\nKaren J. Greenberg\nExecutive Director\, Center on Law and Security\, NYU \n9:15 a.m. Keynote\nAmbassador Richard C. Holbrooke\nFormer U.S. Ambassador to the UN \n10:00 a.m. Today’s Afghanistan: An Overview\nSteve Simon\nHasib J. Sabbagh Senior Fellow\, Middle Eastern Studies\, Council on Foreign Relations\, Goldman Sachs Visiting Professor in Public Policy\, Princeton University \nPeter Bergen\nSchwartz Senior Fellow\, New America Foundation\nFellow\, Center on Law and Security\, New York University \nBarnett Rubin\nDirector of Studies & Senior Fellow\, Center on International Cooperation\,\nNew York University \nImtiaz Ali\nWorld Fellow\, Yale University \nHekmat Karzai\nDirector\, Centre for Conflict and Peace Studies (Kabul\, Afghanistan) \n11:15 a.m. Counterinsurgency\, NATO\, and the Military\nScott Horton\nAdjunct Professor\, Columbia Law School \nLt. Gen. David Barno\nDirector\, Near East South Asia Center\, Center for Strategic Studies\,\nU.S. Department of Defense \nDr. David Kilcullen\nFormer Senior Counter Insurgency Advisor to General David Petraeus \nSteve Coll\nStaff Writer\, The New Yorker\nPresident & CEO\, New America Foundation \nShuja Nawaz\nAuthor\,Crossed Swords: Pakistan\, Its Army\, and the Wars Within \n12:30 Lunch Break \n1:30 p.m. Challenges Ahead: The International Perspective\nAmbassador Omar Samad \nAmbassador of Afghanistan to Canada \n2:00 p.m. Building the Nation: Civil Society and the Rule of Law\nStephen Holmes \nWalter E. Meyer Professor Of Law\, New York University \nJoanne Mariner\nDirector\, Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program\, Human Rights Watch \nClare Lockhart\nCo-Founder & CEO\, Institute for State Effectiveness \nAndrew Wilder\nResearch Director for Policy Process\, Feinstein International Center\,\nTufts University \n3:15 p.m. The Taliban\, Drugs\, and U.S. Policy\nLawrence Wright\nFellow\, Center on Law and Security\, New York University\nStaff Writer\, The New Yorker \nElizabeth Rubin\nEdward R. Murrow Press Fellow\, Council on Foreign Relations\nContributing Writer\, The New York Times Magazine \nNir Rosen\nResearch Fellow\, New America Foundation\nFellow\, Center on Law And Security\, NYU \nSean Langan\nJournalist and Documentary Film maker \nDoug Wankel\nFormer Counter Narcotics Coordinator\, U.S. Embassy in Kabul
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/afghanistan-today-drugs-detention-counterinsurgency/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081011
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161202T203445Z
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SUMMARY:The War on Terror After the Bush Administration
DESCRIPTION:At al Qaeda 3.0\, leading policy makers\, law enforcement officials\, scholars and journalists from around the world will assess the current threat posed by al Qaeda and its affiliates to the United States\, Europe\, the Middle East and South Asia. The conference speakers will also explore what steps the next administration should take in combating al Qaeda and its affiliates both at home and abroad. \nThe conference will be moderated by Steve Clemons\, Director of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation and Karen Greenberg\, Executive Director of the NYU Center on Law and Security. \nCo-hosted by the New America Foundation/American Strategy Program and New York University’s Center on Law and Security. \nFeaturing Center on Law and Security Fellows Peter Bergen\, Michael Sheehan\, Lawrence Wright\, and many others.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/war-terror-bush-administration/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080924
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080926
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161202T203557Z
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SUMMARY:Model Security: How the NYPD Sets the Security Standard
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nRichard Falkenrath is the Deputy Commissioner for Counterterrorism at the New York Police Department. He is a graduate of Occidental College\, with degrees in economics and international relations. He holds a Ph.D. from the Department of War Studies at King’s College London\, where he was a British Marshall Scholar. \nFrom September 1993 until December 2000\, Dr. Falkenrath worked at the Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government\, first as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; then as Executive Director of the Center; and finally as Assistant Professor of Public Policy. In addition\, during this time he was founder and co-Principal Investigator of the Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness; a member of the Advisory Panel to Assess Domestic Response Capabilities for Terrorism Involving Weapons of Mass Destruction (the “Gilmore Commission”); a member of the Board of Visitors of the National Emergency Management Institute; a member of the Director of Central Intelligence’s Nonproliferation Advisory Panel; a Visiting Research Fellow at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik; and a consultant to the Defense Science Board and the RAND Corporation. \nIn December 2000\, Dr. Falkenrath joined the Bush-Cheney Transition Team\, where he was involved in preparing for the presidential transition within the National Security Council. Immediately after the Presidential Inauguration in January 2001\, Dr. Falkenrath joined the White House staff\, where he served continuously until May 2004. His initial position was Director for Proliferation Strategy on the National Security Council staff\, where he was responsibility for biological weapons proliferation and preparedness\, missile defense\, and Asian proliferation issues. \nAfter the terrorist attacks of September 11\, 2001\, Dr. Falkenrath was named Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Policy and Plans within the Office of Homeland Security. In January 2003\, he was promoted to Deputy Assistant to the President and Deputy Homeland Security Advisor. In these capacities\, Dr. Falkenrath was responsible for developing and coordinating all aspects of U.S. homeland security policy and law\, as well as counterterrorism threat assessment and response at all levels. He was the principal author of the National Strategy for Homeland Security and was centrally involved in the stand-up of the Department of Homeland Security\, the Terrorist Threat Integration Center (the predecessor to today’s National Counterterrorism Center)\, and the FBI’s Terrorist Screening Center. \nAfter leaving the White House\, Dr. Falkenrath became the Stephen and Barbara Friedman Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution\, a private nonprofit organization devoted to independent research and innovative policy solutions in Washington\, D.C. He was also an advisor and spokesman for Bush-Cheney 2004 reelection campaign; a security analyst at the Cable News Network (CNN); and a Managing Director at the Civitas Group LLC\, a strategic advisory and investment firm. \nDr. Falkenrath is the author or coauthor of Shaping Europe’s Military Order (1995)\, Avoiding Nuclear Anarchy (1996)\, America’s Achilles ’ Heel: Nuclear\, Biological\, Chemical Terrorism and Covert Attack (1998)\, as well as numerous journal articles\, chapters of edited volumes\, prepared statements for congressional testimony\, and op-ed articles. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group. \nPeter Clarke is a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law. He was formerly the Head of the Anti-Terrorist Branch at New Scotland Yard and the National Coordinator for Terrorist Investigations. Prior to this position\, he served as Deputy Director of Personnel for the Metropolitan Police. Clarke joined the Metropolitan Police in 1977 after graduating in Law from Bristol University.  He has worked at numerous locations around London\, in the Strategic Planning Division\, as operations head in a central London division\, and as Staff Officer to the Commissioner.  In 1994\, Clarke became the Commander of Brixton Division in South London. From 1997-2000\, He took command of the Royalty and Diplomatic Protection Department\, where he was responsible for the protection and security of the Royal Family\, their residences\, the diplomatic community in London\, and the Houses of Parliament.   He was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 2001\, attended the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2002\, and received the Queen’s Police Medal in 2003.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/model-security-nypd-sets-security-standard/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080916
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080918
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161202T203757Z
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SUMMARY:Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nBarton Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winning national correspondent on leave\nfrom The Washington Post. His new book for Penguin Press on Vice President Cheney\, expands on his co-authored “Angler” series in The Post (www.washingtonpost.com/cheney). He is also fellow at the Center on Law and Security and the special projects reporter on the national staff of the Washington Post. Previously\, he completed tours as diplomatic correspondent\, Jerusalem bureau chief\, Pentagon correspondent and D.C. Superior Court reporter. He shared the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2002 and has been a jury-nominated finalist (for individual and team entries) three times. His work has also been honored by the Overseas Press Club\, Society of Professional Journalists (Sigma Delta Chi) and American Society of Newspaper Editors. Gellman graduated summa cum laude from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University and earned a masters degree in politics at University College\, Oxford\, as a Rhodes Scholar. He is author of Contending with Kennan: Toward a Philosophy of American Power\, a study of the post-World War II “containment” doctrine and its architect\, George F. Kennan. \nAdam Liptak is the Supreme Court correspondent at The New York Times.  A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School\, Liptak practiced law at a large New York City law firm and in the legal department of The New York Times Company before joining the paper’s news staff in 2002.  He was previously the national legal correspondent there. \nLiptak was a member of the reporting teams that examined the Jayson Blair and Judith Miller scandals.  He has covered the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito; the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Wilson\, an undercover C.I.A. operative; judicial ethics; and various aspects of the criminal justice system. \nIn addition to The Times\, his work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Vanity Fair\, Rolling Stone and several law reviews.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/angler-cheney-vice-presidency/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080902
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080904
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161202T204412Z
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SUMMARY:The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts and the War on Terror
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKERS \nJoshua Dratel is an attorney in New York City who practices criminal defense law in the state and federal courts.  In his 25 years as a lawyer\, his practice has included a wide range of matters\, including “white collar\,” “organized crime\,” drugs\, sex offenses\, and capital cases.  He is a past President of the New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (2005)\, as well as former Chair of its Amicus Curiae Committee.  He is also a Co-Chair of the Amicus Curiae Committee of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers\, Co-Chair of its Select Committee on Military Tribunals\, and a member of its Board of Directors and Public Affairs Council .  He is a member of the Capital Punishment Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York\, and previously served on the Committee on Criminal Law of that organization.  He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of New York University Law School’s Center on Law & Security\, and the Advisory Board of The Champion\, the magazine of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.  He has represented defendants in several and national security terrorism prosecutions\, Sami Omar Al-Hussayen\, who was acquitted in federal court in Idaho in 2004; Wadih El-Hage\, a defendant in United States v. Usama bin Laden\, which involved the August 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania\, and Mohamed El-Mezain in U.S. v. Holy Land Foundation.. He was also lead and civilian counsel for David Hicks\, an Australian detained at Guantanamo Bay\, Cuba\, in Mr. Hicks’s prosecution by U.S. military commission. He has written and lectured widely on terrorism issues\, including torture\, the USA PATRIOT Act\, the Classified Information Procedures Act\, and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act\, and his articles on some of those subjects have appeared in the CARDOZO PUBLIC LAW\, POLICY AND ETHICS JOURNAL\, the NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL LAW REVIEW\, and the WAYNE LAW REVIEW.  He is co-editor with Karen J. Greenberg of The Torture Papers: The Legal Road to Abu Ghraib (Cambridge University Press:  2005)\, a compendium of government memoranda\, and the forthcoming The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror (Cambridge Press:  2008).  He is a 1978 Magna Cum Laude graduate of Columbia College\, and a 1981 graduate of Harvard Law School. \nKaren J. Greenberg is the Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security.  She is the editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security\, co-editor of The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror and The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib with Joshua Dratel\, and editor of the books Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press).  She is a former Vice-President of the Soros Foundation/Open Society Institute and the founding director of the Program in International Education.  She is a frequent writer\, commentator\, and lecturer on terrorism\, the U.S. courts and the war on terror\, global counterterrorism\, and detainee issues.  Her work has been featured in the LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The American Prospect\, and on the major news channels. \nMichael Ratner is an attorney and President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR).   He is the author of Che Guervara and the FBI: The U.S. Political Police Dossier on the Latin American Revolutionary; Against War with Iraq: An Anti-War Primer; and Guantanamo: What the World Should Know. He has also been a lecturer of international human rights litigation at the Yale Law School and the Columbia School of Law\, president of the National Lawyers Guild\, special Counsel to Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to assist in the prosecution of human rights crimes\, and radio co-host for the civil rights program Law and Disorder. \nAnthony Romero is executive director of the ACLU and an attorney with a history of public-interest activism. He has presided over the most successful membership growth in the ACLU’s history and more than doubled national staff and tripled the budget of the organization since he began his tenure. This unprecedented growth has allowed the ACLU to expand its nationwide litigation\, lobbying and public education efforts\, including new initiatives focused on racial justice\, religious freedom\, privacy\, reproductive freedom and lesbian and gay rights. \nRomero is the ACLU’s sixth executive director\, and the first Latino and openly gay man to serve in that capacity. In 2005\, Romero was named one of Time Magazine’s 25 Most Influential Hispanics in America\, and has received dozens of public service awards and an honorary doctorate from the City University of New York School of Law. \nIn 2007\, Romero and co-author Dina Temple-Raston published In Defense of Our America: The Fight for Civil Liberties in the Age of Terror\, which takes a critical look at civil liberties in this country at a time when constitutional freedoms are in peril. Using the stories of real Americans on the frontlines of the fight for civil liberties\, In Defense of Our America takes readers behind the scenes of some of the most important civil liberties cases in America to illustrate the dangerous erosion of the Bill of Rights in the age of terror. \nBorn in New York City to parents who hailed from Puerto Rico\, Romero was the first in his family to graduate from high school. He is a graduate of Stanford University Law School and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and International Affairs. He is a member of the New York Bar Association and has sat on numerous nonprofit boards.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/enemy-combatant-papers-american-justice-courts-war-terror/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080504
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DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
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SUMMARY:Torture Team: Rumsfeld's Memo and the Betrayal of American Values
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nPhilippe Sands\, author and professor of Law at University College\, London\nScott Horton\, legal affairs writer\, Harper’s Magazine\n\nAbout Torture Team: Rumsfeld’s Memo and the Betrayal of American Values \nBeyond the infamous memo signed by Donald Rumsfeld\, what do we really know about the torture that the U.S. government has signed off on? Philippe Sands\, a seasoned prosecutor of war criminals including Augusto Pinochet and Slobodan Milosevic\, details the systemic abuse at Guantanamo\, including never-before published interviews with the lawyers and military officials that admit to compliance with interrogation orders coming from the top. And to be certain\, it doesn’t stop at Guantanamo. The techniques have migrated from Gitmo to Abu Ghraib to Basra to Matrix Chamber. It is systemic\, illegal\, and will continue into the next Administration unless there is a drastic policy change. Would any of the presidential hopefuls have that courage? \nSPEAKER \nPhilippe Sands is an international lawyer\, professor of law\, and Director of the Centre on International Courts and Tribunals in the Faculty at University College London. He is the author of Lawless World: America and the Making and Breaking of Global Rules and is a frequent commentator on news and current affairs programs including CNN\, MSNBC\, and BBC World Service. He has been involved in many leading international cases\, including the World Court trial of Slobodan Milosevic and the treatment of British detainees at Guantanamo Bay. He frequently advises governments\, international organizations\, NGOs and the private sector on international law. In 2003\, he was appointed a Queen’s Counsel. He has been appointed to lists of arbitrators maintained by ICSID and the PCA. \nHe has previously held academic positions at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies\, Kings College London\, University of Cambridge\, and was a Global Professor of Law at New York University from 1995-2003. He was co-founder of FIELD (Foundation for International Environmental Law and Development)\, and established the programs on Climate Change and Sustainable Development. He is a member of the Advisory Boards of the European Journal of International Law and Review of European Community and International Environmental Law (Blackwell Press). In 2007 he served as a judge for the Guardian First Book Prize award. \n\n\n\nMODERATOR \nScott Horton is a lecturer at Columbia Law School\, a legal affairs writer for Harper’s Magazine and a columnist for The American Lawyer. He is also an attorney known for his work in emerging markets\, military law and international public law.  He was from 1985 until January 2007 with the law firm of Patterson\, Belknap\, Webb & Tyler\, from 1990 as a partner.  He studied at the Universities of Munich and Mainz in Germany\, and completed his J.D. degree at the University of Texas at Austin in 1981. Horton is particularly known for his work in the nations of the former Soviet Union.  He represented Russian physicist and democracy advocate Andrei Sakharov and his wife\, Elena Bonner\, and serves today as a director of the Moscow-based Andrei Sakharov Foundation.  He headed a project for Human Rights First studying the accountability of private military contractors that resulted in Private Security Contractors at War (2008)\, a study of the legal regime governing military contractors in theaters of war.  He has testified twice before the House Judiciary Committee on questions relating to private security contractors.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of the International Law Association\, the National Institute for Military Justice\, and the EurasiaGroup\, and chaired three committees of the New York City Bar Association.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/torture-team-rumsfelds-memo-betrayal-american-values/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080403T134500
DTSTAMP:20260813T215904
CREATED:20161202T205531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T223512Z
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SUMMARY:Privatizing Defense: Blackwater\, Contractors\, and American Security
DESCRIPTION:As part of a series of conferences at NYU School of Law\, this half day conference will examine the outsourcing phenomenon and its ramifications for American institutions\, for the future of the military\, and for the national security community. \nThe Institute for International Law and Justice at NYU School of Law will hold concurrent sessions on Private Security\, Public Order: Governance and Limits. For more information on the IILJ conference\, including speakers and schedule\, please visit www.iilj.org. \nSpeakers include: \n\nJim Bond\, Senior Counsel\, Foreign and International Law\, DynCorp;\nDoug Brooks\, President\, International Peace Operations Association;\nPhillip Carter\, Associate\, McKenna\, Long\, & Aldridge\nLaura Dickinson\, Professor\, University of Connecticut Law School;\nKaren J. Greenberg\, Executive Director\, Center on Law and Security;\nRobert Grenier\, Managing Director\, Kroll\, Inc.;\nBenedict Kingsbury\, Director\, Institute for International Law and Justice;\nDavid Hammond\, Partner\, Crowell and Moring;\nStephen Holmes\, Meyer Professor of Law; NYU School of Law;\nScott Horton\, Contributor\, Harper’s Magazine;\nTara McKelvey\, Research Fellow\, Center on Law and Security;\nRobert O’Harrow\, Investigative Reporter\, The Washington Post;\nNir Rosen\, Fellow\, Center on Law and Security\, NYU School of Law;\nJeremy Scahill\, Author\, Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful Mercenary Army;\nMarty Strong\, Vice President\, Blackwater USA;\nPaul Verkuil\, Professor of Law\, Cardozo School of Law.\n\nSchedule of Events \n1:45 p.m. \nIntroduction\, Karen Greenberg \n1:45-3:00 p.m. \nUnderstanding the Need: Public and Private Capabilities \nDoug Brooks\, Phillip Carter\, Robert O’Harrow\, Martin Strong \nModerator: Benedict Kingsbury \n3:00-4:15 p.m. \nThe Practical Side of Private Defense: Defining Success \nJim Bond\, Laura Dickinson\, Robert Grenier\, Scott Horton \nModerator: Tara McKelvey \n4:15-4:30 p.m. Coffee Break \n4:30-5:45 p.m. \nManaging Parameters: Moral and Legal Questions \nDavid Hammond\, Nir Rosen\, Jeremy Scahill\, Paul Verkuil \nModerator: Stephen Holmes
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/privatizing-defense-blackwater-contractors-american-security/
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