Past Events

Prosecuting Terrorism: America’s Challenge Then & Now

Featuring: Viet Dinh Joshua Dratel Baltasar Garzón Judge Kenneth Karas Adam Liptak Andy McCarthy Lt. Com. Charles Swift Lawrence Wright Dina Temple-Raston Benjamin Weiser Michael Sheehan David Bowker Gabor Rona Susan Hirsch Bart Gellman Schedule of Events 9:15-9:30 a.m. Opening Remarks 9:30-10:45 a.m. The Paradigm: War vs. Crime 10:45-12:00 p.m. Terrorism Investigations and National Security

Shadow Conflict: Afghanistan & Pakistan

SPEAKER BIOS Peter Bergen is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; a research fellow at New York University's Center on Law and Security; CNN's terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret

Less Safe, Less Free? The Failure of Preemption in the War on Terror

SPEAKER BIOS David Cole served as a law clerk to Judge Arlin M. Adams of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit after graduating from Yale Law School. Professor Cole then became a staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he litigated a number of major First Amendment cases. He continues

Worst Case Scenarios: A Discussion with Cass Sunstein

Speaker Bios Cass R. Sunstein graduated in 1975 from Harvard College and in 1978 from Harvard Law School magna cum laude. After graduation, he clerked for Justice Benjamin Kaplan of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. Before joining the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School, he

Privacy in the Age of National Security

Featuring: Valerie Caproni, General Counsel, FBI Bryan Cunningham, homeland security consultant, Morgan & Cunningham, LLC Bart Gellman, Fellow, Center on Law and Security and special projects reporter for the Washington Post Jeff Jonas, Distinguished Engineer and Chief Scientist, IBM Robert O'Harrow, author of No Place to Hide Declan McCullagh, Chief Political Correspondent, CNET Burt Neuborne,

The Rule of Law and Muslim Societies

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

State of the Party: Democrats at a Crossroads

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

Power Politics: Iran, Saudi Arabia, and leadership in the Muslim World

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

Intelligence and the Age of National Security

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

Rights in Conflict: Case Studies

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. SPEAKERS Reza 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

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