SPEAKER BIOS Barton Gellman is a Pulitzer Prize winning national correspondent on leave from 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

SPEAKER BIOS Richard 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. From September 1993 until December

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

Hosted by The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law, co-sponsored by The New America Foundation KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY AMBASSADOR RICHARD C. HOLBROOKE As 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

SPEAKER BIOS Lawrence Wright is 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

Featuring: Ted Sorensen, former special counsel and adviser to President John F. Kennedy, and author of Counselor Sidney Blumenthal, fellow, Center on Law and Security, former senior adviser to Senator Hillary Clinton, and former senior advisor to President Bill Clinton Rick Perlstein, author of Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America.

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. SPEAKER BIOS Gilles Kepel is head of the post-graduate programme on the Arab and Muslim worlds at the Institut

An Open Forum hosted by the Center on Law and Security and Harper's Magazine On 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. Featured Speakers:

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

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