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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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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20081028
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20081030
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080918
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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
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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
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080506
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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:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T205531Z
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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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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080226
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080228
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T210112Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T223939Z
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SUMMARY:Rights in Conflict: Case Studies
DESCRIPTION:Part Three of a four-part series\, Legal Cultures in Muslim Societies\, sponsored in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations. \nSPEAKERS \nReza Aslan is a fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Public Diplomacy and Middle East Analyst for CBS News. He has degrees in Religions from Santa Clara University\, Harvard University\, and the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, as well as a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa\, where he was named the Truman Capote Fellow in Fiction. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities\, and the Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the board of directors for both the Ploughshares Fund and PEN USA. Aslan’s first book is the New York Times Bestselling\, No god but God: The Origins\, Evolution\, and Future of Islam\, which has been translated into half a dozen languages\, short-listed for the Guardian (UK) First Book Award\, and nominated for a PEN USA award for research Non-Fiction. His next book\, How to Win a Cosmic War will be published by Random House in the Fall 2008\, followed by an edited anthology\, Words Without Borders: Contemporary Literature from the Muslim World\, which will be published by Norton in the Spring of 2009. Aslan is cofounder and creative director of BoomGen Studios and the Editorial Executive of Mecca.com\, an on-line community for Muslim youth. Born in Iran\, he now lives in Santa Monica\, CA\, where he is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at University of California\, Riverside. \nRicardo René Larémont is Interim Dean of Harpur College at SUNY Binghamton and Professor of Political Science and Sociology. His principal books include: Islam and the Politics of Resistance in Algeria\, 1783-1992; The Causes of War and the Consequences of Peacekeeping in Africa; and\, Borders\, Nationalism\, and the African State. His monograph-in-progress is Islamic Law and Politics in Nigeria\, 1804-2007. His research focuses upon Islamic politics\, Islamic law\, ethnic and religious conflict\, civil wars\, conflict resolution\, democratization\, and civil/military relations. He was Carnegie Corporation Scholar for 2007 and Fulbright Scholar for 1994. \nMODERATOR \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 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. Karen is currently working on her forthcoming book\, The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice\, the Courts\, and the War on Terror\, co-edited with Joshua Dratel.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/rights-conflict-case-studies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080201T043000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080201T104500
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T210341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170421T215835Z
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SUMMARY:Intelligence and the Age of National Security
DESCRIPTION:The conference\, which will examine the current state of the nation’s intelligence structures\, its successes and challenges\, and its proposed new directions and goals\, will feature former State Department officials\, former CIA analysts and administrators\, and journalists. \nAmong the speakers are: \n\nAmbassador Henry Crumpton\, former State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism\nJames Bamford\, author\, Body of Secrets\nPaul Butler\, partner\, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP\nPaul Pillar\, visiting professor\, Georgetown University and former intelligence official\nJennifer Sims\, visiting professor\, Georgetown University and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence Coordination\nWashington Post reporters Walter Pincus and Dana Priest\nTyler Drumheller\, former CIA chief of European operations\nLawrence Wright\, fellow\, Center on Law and Security and Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Looming Tower\nTim Weiner\, New York Times reporter and National Book Award finalist for Legacy of Ashes\n\n9:30-9:45 a.m. \nIntroductory Remarks \n9:45-10:30 a.m. \nKeynote Speaker\, \nAmbassador Henry Crumpton \nFormer Coordinator for Counterterrorism \nU.S. Department of State \n10:45-12:15 p.m. \nCounterterrorism and Intelligence Gathering: An Interagency Process \n12:15-1:15 p.m. \nBreak \n1:15-2:30 p.m. \nIntelligence and the Law \n2:30-3:45 p.m. \nBalancing Act: the Press and Reporting on Intelligence
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/intelligence-age-national-security/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20080115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20080117
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T210512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170421T215940Z
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SUMMARY:Power Politics: Iran\, Saudi Arabia\, and leadership in the Muslim World
DESCRIPTION:Part Two of Legal Cultures in Muslim Societies\, a series sponsored in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, and in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations. \nSPEAKER BIOS \nVali Nasr is an Adjunct Senior Fellow for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor of International Politics and Associate Director of the Fares Center of Eastern Mediterranean Studies at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy of Tufts University. He is a specialist on Middle East politics and political Islam\, and has worked extensively on political and social developments in the Muslim world with a focus on the relation of religion to politics\, social change\, and democratization. He also serves as a senior fellow for the Dubai Initiative at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.  Dr. Nasr is the author of five books\, most recently The Shia Revival: How Conflicts within Islam Will Shape the Future (W.W. Norton\, 2006).  He is editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (Oxford University Press\, 2003); and the author of numerous articles in academic journals and encyclopedias. \nDr. Nasr has briefed the White House\, the Congress\, the U.S. Department of State\, the National Security Council\, and the U.S. Department of Defense on Middle East issues. He has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, Time\, Los Angeles Times\, Christian Science Monitor\, The New Republic\, La Repubblica\, Süddeutsche Zeitung\, and was profiled on the front page of the Wall Street Journal. His interviews and expert commentary have also been used in newspapers and new programs around the world\, including Al-Jazeera\, Der Spiegel\, CNN\, BBC\, and 60 Minutes. He has appeared as a guest on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, The Charlie Rose Show\, Meet the Press\, Larry King Live\, The Colbert Report\, and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. \nToby Craig Jones is an Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University.  Jones has lived and worked extensively in the Middle East\, including several years in Saudi Arabia\, Egypt\, Jordan and Bahrain. His main research interests focus on the history of state-building\, politics\, and Shia-Sunni relations in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. Jones has taught courses on the history of the modern Middle East\, Iran and Iraq in the 20th century\, the history of oil\, and Islam and politics. He worked as the Persian Gulf Analyst for the International Crisis Group from 2004-2006 where he wrote about reform and sectarianism in Saudi Arabia and Bahrain. He has published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Middle East Report\, Foreign Affairs\, the Arab Reform Bulletin\, and elsewhere. \nMODERATOR \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 Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib\, and editor of the books Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America (Cambridge University Press). She 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. 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 LA Times\, the San Francisco Chronicle\, The Nation\, The American Prospect\, and on the 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/power-politics-iran-saudi-arabia-leadership-muslim-world/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071126
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071128
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T210701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170421T220129Z
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SUMMARY:State of the Party: Democrats at a Crossroads
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER 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. \nMr. Sorensen and his team at Paul\, Weiss have advised U.S. corporations on factories in Russia and Africa\, pipelines in the Caribbean and Latin America\, and disputes in the Middle East and North America\, and negotiated on their behalf with government officials at the highest level in dozens of countries. He has advised foreign corporations from five continents on investments in the United States and elsewhere\, foreign governments on problems with the World Bank\, the United Nations\, the U.S. government and foreign investors\, and on changes in their respective mining\, petroleum\, investment and election codes\, and constitutions. \nIn 2002\, Mr. Sorensen was a fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Mr. Sorensen is on the advisory board of the Foreign Policy Leadership Council\, a director of the Council on Foreign Relations (until 2004) and the Century Foundation\, a member of the advisory board of the Partnership for a Secure America and an honorary co-chair of the ABA Commission on the Renaissance of Idealism in the Legal Profession. Mr. Sorensen is the author of the 1965 international best seller Kennedy\, seven other books on the presidency\, politics or foreign policy and numerous articles on those subjects in Foreign Affairs\, The New York Times and other publications. As an active figure in the Democratic Party\, he has participated in nine of the last 11 Democratic Party National Conventions and served in a number of governmental\, political and civic posts. Appointed by President Bill Clinton\, he served on the boards of the Central Asian-American Enterprise Fund (covering Kazakhstan\, Kyrgyzstan\, Uzbekistan\, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) and the Commission on White House Fellows. He is experienced in the ways of Washington\, the United Nations and the multilateral (World Bank\, IFC\, etc.) and U.S. (AID\, OPIC\, etc.) financing institutions. \nMr. Sorensen was born in Lincoln\, Nebraska in 1928. He is father of three sons\, one daughter and is married to Gillian Martin Sorensen\, a former New York City commissioner\, a former United Nations under-secretary general and current senior advisor and national advocate at the United Nations Foundation. \nMr. Sorensen is currently working on his memoirs\, which will be published in 2008. \nSidney Blumenthal is a 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. \nBooks 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). \nMODERATOR \nSean Wilentz is the George Henry Davis ’86 Professor of History and director of the Program in American Studies at Princeton University. He lives in Princeton\, New Jersey. He is the author of the acclaimed\, The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln (W.W. Norton\, 2006)
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/state-party-democrats-crossroads/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071115
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071117
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T210932Z
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SUMMARY:The Rule of Law and Muslim Societies
DESCRIPTION:Session One of the Center’s new Legal Cultures in Muslim Societies Series\, sponsored in part by the Carnegie Corporation of New York\, and in partnership with the Council on Foreign Relations; featuring Noah Feldman of Harvard Law School and Nathan Brown of George Washington University\, moderated by Karen J. Greenberg\, Executive Director of the Center on Law and Security \nSPEAKER BIOS \nNoah Feldman is a professor of law at Harvard Law School\, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations\, faculty director of The Center on Law and Security\, and a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. He specializes in constitutional studies\, with particular emphasis on the relationship between law and religion\, constitutional design\, and the history of legal theory.  In 2003\, he served as senior constitutional advisor to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq and subsequently advised members of the Iraqi Governing Council on the drafting of the Transitional Administrative Law\, or interim constitution He has authored three books\, Divided By God: America’s Church-State Problem and What We Should Do About It (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2005); What We Owe Iraq: War and the Ethics of Nation Building (Princeton University Press\, 2004); and After Jihad: America and the Struggle for Islamic Democracy (Farrar\, Straus and Giroux\, 2003). \nNathan Brown\, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University\,  and a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace\, is a distinguished scholar and author of four well-received books on Arab politics.  Brown brings his special expertise on Palestinian reform and Arab constitutionalism to the Endowment and his research interests also include Egyptian and Palestinian politics\, legal reform in the modern Middle East\, as well as democratization.  Brown’s most recent book\, Resuming Arab Palestine\, presents research on Palestinian society and governance after the establishment of the Palestinian Authority. \nMODERATOR \nKaren J. Greenberg is the executive director of The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law and the editor of The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib (with Joshua Dratel)\, The Torture Debate in America\, and Al Qaeda Now: Understanding Today’s Terrorists.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/rule-law-muslim-societies/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071114T041500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071114T104500
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T211212Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T224456Z
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SUMMARY:Privacy in the Age of National Security
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nValerie Caproni\, General Counsel\, FBI\nBryan Cunningham\, homeland security consultant\, Morgan & Cunningham\, LLC\nBart Gellman\, Fellow\, Center on Law and Security and special projects reporter for the Washington Post\nJeff Jonas\, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist\, IBM\nRobert O’Harrow\, author of No Place to Hide\nDeclan McCullagh\, Chief Political Correspondent\, CNET\nBurt Neuborne\, NYU School of Law\nStephen Schulhofer\, NYU School of Law \n  \n  \n9:15 a.m.Introduction and Opening Remarks \n9:30 a.m.\nI. Privacy: Then & Now\nSpeakers: Valerie Caproni\, Geoffrey Stone\, Robert O’Harrow\nModerator: Burt Neuborne \n10:45 a.m.\nII. Citizens Surveilled: FISA\, The Patriot Act and Today’s Telecommunications\nSpeakers: Bryan Cunningham\, Stephen Schulhofer\nModerator: Matthew Waxman \n12:00 p.m. Lunch Break \n1:00 p.m.\nIII. Reins of Power: From Wall Street to Washington DC and the Global Information Network\nSpeakers: Bart Gellman\, Jeff Jonas\, Vivian Maese\, Declan McCullagh\nModerator: Karen J. Greenberg \n2:30 p.m.\nIV. Public\, Private\, and Political Dangers\nSpeakers: Todd Gitlin\, Lawrence Wright\nModerator: Stephen Holmes \n3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/privacy-age-national-security/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071102
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T211615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T224615Z
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SUMMARY:Worst Case Scenarios: A Discussion with Cass Sunstein
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bios \n\nCass R. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation\, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School\, he worked as an attorney-advisor in the Office of the Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice. Mr. Sunstein has testified before congressional committees on many subjects\, and he has been involved in constitution-making and law reform activities in a number of nations\, including Ukraine\, Poland\, China\, South Africa\, and Russia. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, Mr. Sunstein has been Samuel Rubin Visiting Professor of Law at Columbia\, visiting professor of law at Harvard\, vice-chair of the ABA Committee on Separation of Powers and Governmental Organizations\, chair of the Administrative Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools\, a member of the ABA Committee on the future of the FTC\, and a member of the President’s Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligations of Digital Television Broadcasters. \nMr. Sunstein is a member of the Department of Political Science as well as the Law School. He is author of many articles and a number of books\, including After the Rights Revolution: Reconceiving the Regulatory State (1990)\, Constitutional Law (co-authored with Geoffrey Stone\, Louis M. Seidman\, and Mark Tushnet) (1995)\, The Partial Constitution (1993)\, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech (1993)\, Legal Reasoning and Political Conflict (1996)\, Free Markets and Social Justice (1997)\, Administrative Law and Regulatory Policy (1998) (with Justice Stephen Breyer and Professor Richard Stewart and Matthew Spitzer)\, One Case At A Time (1999)\, Behavioral Law and Economics (editor\, 2000)\, Designing Democracy: What Constitutions Do (2001)\, Republic.com (2001)\, Risk and Reason (2002)\, The Cost-Benefit State (2002)\, Punitive Damages: How Juries Decide (2002)\, Why Societies Need Dissent (2003)\, The Second Bill of Rights (2004)\, and Laws of Fear: Beyond the Precautionary Principle (2005). He is now working on various projects involving the relationship between law and human behavior. \n\nMODERATOR \n\nStephen Holmes is a Faculty Research 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). His most recent book\, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to the War on Terror was published in spring 2007.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/worst-case-scenarios-discussion-cass-sunstein/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071023
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071025
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T212357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T212357Z
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SUMMARY:Less Safe\, Less Free? The Failure of Preemption in the War on Terror
DESCRIPTION:SPEAKER BIOS \nDavid Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after graduating from Yale Law School. Professor Cole then became a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases. He continues to litigate First Amendment and other constitutional issues as a volunteer staff attorney at the Center. He has published in a variety of areas\, including civil rights\, criminal justice\, constitutional law and law and literature. He is the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation\, a commentator on National Public Radio: All Things Considered\, and the author of three books: Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (New Press\, 2d ed. 2005); Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties for National Security (New Press\, 3d ed. 2005) (with James X. Dempsey); and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System (New Press\, 1999). Enemy Aliens received the American Book Award and the Hefner First Amendment Prize in 2004. No Equal Justice was named Best Nonfiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review\, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association\, and was awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001. Professor Cole has received numerous awards for his civil rights and civil liberties work\, including from the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of the Freedom of Expression\, the American Bar Association’s Individual Rights and Responsibilities Section\, the National Lawyers Guild\, the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee\, the Political Asylum and Immigrants’ Rights Project\, the American Muslim Council\, and Trial Lawyers for Public Justice. \nMODERATOR\nStephen Holmes is a Faculty Research 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). His most recent book\, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to the War on Terror was published in spring 2007.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/less-safe-less-free-failure-preemption-war-terror/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071019
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T213138Z
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SUMMARY:Shadow Conflict: Afghanistan & Pakistan
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 Discovery Television. 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. \nHusain Haqqani is Director of the Center for International Relations and Professor at Boston University. He is Co-Chair of the Hudson Institute’s Project on the Future of the Muslim World as well as editor of the journal ‘Current Trends in Islamist Thought’ published from Washington DC. Mr. Haqqani came to the U.S. in 2002 as a Visiting Scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington DC and an adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University. He is a leading journalist\, diplomat\, and former advisor to Pakistani Prime ministers. His syndicated column is published in several newspapers in South Asia and the Middle East\, including Oman Tribune\, Jang\, The Indian Express\, Gulf News and The Nation (Pakistan). Haqqani has contributed to numerous international publications\, including The Wall Street Journal\, The New York Times\, International Herald Tribune\, Foreign Policy\, The Los Angeles Times\, The New Republic and The Financial Times. He regularly comments on Pakistan\, Afghanistan\, and Islamic politics and extremism on BBC\, PBS\, CNN\, NBC\, Fox News and ABC. \nSeth Jones is currently a Political Scientist at RAND. He specializes in stability operations\, counterinsurgency\, and European security. He has focused recently on U.S. operations in Afghanistan\, including the counterinsurgency campaign and efforts to rebuild the Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army. He is the author of The Rise of Europe (Cambridge University Press\, 2006). He has published articles in The National Interest\, Security Studies\, Chicago Journal of International Law\, International Affairs\, and Survival\, as well as such newspapers and magazines as The New York Times\, Newsweek\, Financial Times\, International Herald Tribune\, Chicago Tribune\, and Christian Science Monitor. His RAND publications include Establishing Law and Order after Conflict” (2005); “Building a Successful Palestinian State” (2005); “The UN’s Role in Nation-Building: From Congo to Iraq” (2005); and “America’s Role in Nation-Building: From Germany to Iraq” (2003). \nBarnett Rubin is Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Center on International Cooperation of New York University\, where he directs the program on the Reconstruction of Afghanistan. He has worked at CIC since July 2000. During 1994-2000 he was Director of the Center for Preventive Action\, and Director\, Peace and Conflict Studies\, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Rubin was Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Central Asia at Columbia University from 1990 to 1996. Previously\, he was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Dr. Rubin has written numerous articles and book reviews on conflict prevention\, state formation\, and human rights. His articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs\, Orbis\, Survival\, International Affairs\, The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, and The New York Review of Books.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/shadow-conflict-afghanistan-pakistan/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20071010T051500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20071010T130000
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T224817Z
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SUMMARY:Prosecuting Terrorism: America's Challenge Then & Now
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nViet Dinh\nJoshua Dratel\nBaltasar Garzón\nJudge Kenneth Karas\nAdam Liptak\nAndy McCarthy\nLt. Com. Charles Swift\nLawrence Wright\nDina Temple-Raston\nBenjamin Weiser\nMichael Sheehan\nDavid Bowker\nGabor Rona\nSusan Hirsch\nBart Gellman\n\nSchedule of Events \n9:15-9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks \n9:30-10:45 a.m. The Paradigm: War vs. Crime \n10:45-12:00 p.m. Terrorism Investigations and National Security \nBreak \n1:00-2:30 p.m. The Embassy Bombings: Lessons Learned \n2:30-3:45 p.m. Alternative Approaches \n3:45-5:00 p.m. Outlook and Future Strategies
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/prosecuting-terrorism-americas-challenge-now/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20071007
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20071009
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T224959Z
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SUMMARY:Countering Terrorism: Blurred Focus\, Halting Steps
DESCRIPTION:About the Speaker \nRichard A. Posner is a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals in Chicago and a senior lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School. He is the author of hundreds of articles and dozens of books\, including Uncertain Shield: The U.S. Intelligence System in the Throes of Reform (2006) and Preventing Surprise Attacks: Intelligence Reform in the Wake of 9/11 (2005). \nIn this third book in a series on intelligence reform\, Judge Richard A. Posner evaluates the measures that have been taken in the past two years to implement the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004\, which decreed a wholesale reorganization of the intelligence system. Countering Terrorism also addresses broader issues in the struggle against terrorism\, such as the failure of criminal law enforcement and the difficulty of devising criteria for allocating counterterrorist funds. \nModerator: \nStephen Holmes\, faculty research advisor at the Center on Law and Security and the Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. His new book\, The Matador’s Cape: America’s Reckless Response to the War on Terror\, was published in the spring of 2007.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/countering-terrorism-blurred-focus-halting-steps/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070925
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070927
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213534Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T225327Z
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SUMMARY:Fever Pitch: The United States and Iran
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bios \nSuzanne Maloney\, an expert on Iran\, the Persian Gulf States\, energy\, and economic reform\, is a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. Dr. Maloney is a former member of the U.S. State Department’s Policy Planning Staff where she worked on Iran\, the Persian Gulf\, and broader regional issues. Her research focuses on political and economic dynamics in Iran\, as well as economic reform and energy issues in the Middle East. Prior to joining the State Department\, Maloney was the Middle East advisor at ExxonMobil Corporation. She served as project director of the Task Force on U.S. Policy Toward Iran for the Council on Foreign Relations\, whose report\, Iran: Time for a New Approach\, recommended a strategy for engaging Iran. Maloney was the recipient of an International Affairs Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations and has previously served at Brookings as an Olin Fellow and a Brookings research fellow. \nMaloney is the author of a forthcoming U.S. Institute of Peace book on Iran’s relationship with the Islamic world. She received a Ph.D. and an M.A.L.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. \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. A leading researcher on Iran\, Sadjadpour has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials\, and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals\, clerics\, dissidents\, paramilitaries\, businessmen\, students\, activists\, and youth\, among others. \nHe is a regular contributor to BBC World TV and radio\, CNN\, National Public Radio\, and PBS NewsHour with Jim Lehrer\, and has also written in the Washington Post\, New York Times\, International Herald Tribune\, and New Republic. Frequently called upon to brief U.S. and EU officials about Middle Eastern affairs\, he has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee\, given lectures at Harvard\, Princeton\, and Stanford Universities\, and spoken before the Council on Foreign Relations and Asia Society. Sadjadpour was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos\, Switzerland and has been the recipient of numerous academic awards\, including a Fulbright scholarship. He has lived in Latin America\, Europe\, and the Middle East. \nGary Sick is a senior research scholar at SIPA’s Middle East Institute\, and an adjunct professor of international affairs at SIPA. 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). \nProfessor Sick served on the National Security Council under Presidents Ford\, Carter\, and Reagan. He was the principal White House aide for Iran during the Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis. Sick is a captain (ret.) in the U.S. Navy\, with service in the Persian Gulf\, North Africa\, and the Mediterranean. He was the deputy director for International Affairs at the Ford Foundation from 1982 to 1987\, where he was responsible for programs relating to U.S. foreign policy. He is also a member of the board of Human Rights Watch in New York and the chairman of the Advisory Committee of Human Rights Watch/Middle East. He was the executive director of Gulf/2000\, an international research project on political\, economic\, and security developments in the Persian Gulf\, being conducted at Columbia University from 1994 to 1995 on behalf of the W. Alton Jones and Rockefeller Foundations. 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. \nMODERATOR \nSteven Simon is the Hasib J. Sabbagh senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. Prior to joining the Council\, Mr. Simon specialized in Middle Eastern affairs at the RAND Corporation. He was previously the deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies 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.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.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/fever-pitch-united-states-iran/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070921
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213712Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161202T213712Z
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SUMMARY:Today's Terrorist Threat: An Assessment
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Bios \nRand Beers served as the National Security adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign. Previously he spent 35 years as a senior civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam\, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98\, Mr. Beers served on the National Security Council Staff at the White House as Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics\, Director for Peacekeeping\, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. From 1998-2003 he was Assistant Secretary of State for International. Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In 2002-03 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism. In 2002-03 he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National Security Council. Beers earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and an M.A. from the University of Michigan. \nMichael Sheehan comes to the Center on Law and Security from his position as Deputy Commissioner of Counterterrorism for the New York City Police Department. Commissioner Sheehan 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. \nLawrence Wright is a Fellow at the Center on Law and Security and an author and screenwriter\, as well as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.  His book on Al Qaeda\, The Looming Tower (Knopf\, 2006)\, in addition to being named one of the top ten books of 2006\, according to both the New York Times and the Washington Post\, and nominated for the 2006 National Book Award\, won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for General non fiction. 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.
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/todays-terrorist-threat-assessment/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070505
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213749Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T225436Z
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SUMMARY:The Hidden Roots of War: Christian Zionism and the Neocon Fundamentalist Alliance in America
DESCRIPTION:Featuring Craig Unger\, author\, and writer\, Vanity Fair
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/hidden-roots-war-christian-zionism-neocon-fundamentalist-alliance-america/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070412T051500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070412T120000
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T213847Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T202241Z
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SUMMARY:Secrecy and Government
DESCRIPTION:Part Two of the CLS Series\, America Faces the Future \nFeaturing: \n\nFrank Anderson\, former CIA Near East Division Chief\nElaine Cassel\, attorney\, professor\, Concord University School of Law\nJoshua Dratel\, attorney\, co-editor\, The Torture Papers\nNoah Feldman\, Cecilia Goetz Professor of Law\, NYU School Of Law\nBart Gellman\, special projects reporter\, The Washington Post\nJack Goldsmith\, Shattuck Professor of Law\, Harvard Law School\nKaren J. Greenberg\, executive director\, Center on Law and Security\nNat Hentoff\, writer\, The Village Voice\nStephen Holmes\, Meyer Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law\nScott Horton\, attorney\nJameel Jaffer\, staff attorney\, ACLU\nJudge Kenneth Karas\, Southern District of New York\nCol. Pat Lang\, U.S. Army (Ret.)\nJ. William Leonard\, director\, Information Security Oversight Office\nAnthony Lewis\, journalist and professor\nAdam Liptak\, national legal correspondent\, The New York Times\nBurt Neuborne\, Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties\, NYU School of Law\nRick Pildes\, Sudler Family Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law\nWalter Pincus\, national security reporter\, The Washington Post\nDana Priest\, staff writer\, The Washington Post\nMichael Sheehan\, Distinguished Fellow\, Center on Law and Security\nStephen Schulhofer\, McKay Professor of Law\, NYU School of Law\n\n9:15 a.m. Opening Remarks\, Dana Priest “On Secrets & Secrecy” \n9:30-10:45 a.m. Gaining Perspective: Secrecy Then & Now with Scott Horton\, Nat Hentoff\, Pat Lang\, and Walter Pincus. Moderated by Noah Feldman \n11:00-12:15 p.m. Secrecy and Decision Making with Jack Goldsmith\, Bart Gellman\, Stephen Holmes\, and Mike Sheehan. Moderated by Rick Pildes \n12:15-1:15 p.m. Lunch Break \n1:15-2:30 p.m. The War on Terror and the Courts with Elaine Cassel\, Joshua Dratel\, Adam Liptak\, and Tony Lewis. Moderated by Burt Neuborne \n2:30-3:45 p.m. Secrecy\, National Security\, and Intelligence with Frank Anderson\, Jameel Jaffer\, Ken Karas\, J. William Leonard\, and Stephen Schulhofer. Moderated by Dana Priest \n3:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/secrecy-and-government/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070406
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T214750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T213340Z
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SUMMARY:The Best Defense is a Good Defense: The Role of Resiliency in the War on Terror
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nStephen Flynn\, Kirkpatrick Senior Fellow for National Security Studies\, Council on Foreign Relations and Author\, Edge of Disaster: Rebuilding a Resilient Nation
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/best-defense-good-defense-role-resiliency-war-terror/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070329
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070331
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T214825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T214144Z
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SUMMARY:The Fate of America's Iraqi Allies
DESCRIPTION:With George Packer\, Staff Writer\, The New Yorker\, and author of The Assassin’s Gate: America in Iraq
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/fate-americas-iraqi-allies/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070320
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070322
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T214928Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170428T214323Z
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SUMMARY:24: Torture Televised
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nJane Mayer\nRichard Slotkin\nTony Lagouranis\nStephen Holmes\nKaren Greenberg
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/24-torture-televised/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20070215
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20070217
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T215038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T202523Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Paul Barrett
DESCRIPTION:Author\, American Islam: The Struggle for the Soul of a Religion \nAlong with Neil MacFarquhar’s Review in the New York Times \n 
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/conversation-paul-barrett/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070124T041500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070124T114500
DTSTAMP:20260813T235213
CREATED:20161202T215135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170501T202718Z
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SUMMARY:Iraq\, Iran\, & Beyond: America Faces the Future
DESCRIPTION:Featuring: \n\nDaniel Benjamin\nMax Boot\nPeter Bergen\nPatrick Clawson\nSteve Coll\nSteven Cook\nNoah Feldman\nFawaz Gerges\nKaren Greenberg\nStephen Holmes\nToby Craig Jones\nFarhad Kazemi\nW. Patrick Lang\nDafna Linzer\nSalameh Nematt\nPaul Pillar\nBarnett Rubin\nSteve Simon\nCraig Unger\nLawrence Wright\n\nSchedule of Events \n9:15-9:45 a.m. Opening Remarks \n10:00-11:15 a.m. The Proxy War: Iraq\, Saudi Arabia\, and Iran \nfeaturing Patrick Clawson\, Toby Craig Jones\, Dafna Linzer\, Lawrence Wright \nmoderator: Steve Simon \n11:20-12:35 p.m. The Taliban Resurgence and the Future of Al-Qaeda \nfeaturing Peter Bergen\, Steve Coll\, Barnett Rubin\, \nmoderator: Karen Greenberg \nBreak \n1:30-2:45 p.m. The Last Best Chances? New Plans of Action \nfeaturing Max Boot\, Noah Feldman\, W. Pat Lang\, Salameh Nematt\, Paul Pillar \nmoderator: Daniel Benjamin \n3:00-4:30 p.m. The Neighborhood: Dominoes Ready to Fall? \nfeaturing Steven Cook\, Fawaz Gerges\, Farhad Kazemi\, Craig Unger \nmoderator: Stephen Holmes \n4:30-4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks
URL:https://www.lawandsecurity.org/calendar/iraq-iran-beyond-america-faces-future/
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