In this sixth meeting of an ongoing project at the Center, participants discussed pressing issues in the global fight against terrorism. A distinguished group of prosecutors and terrorism experts from Spain, Morocco, Germany, Belgium, France, Egypt, Colombia, Holland, Turkey, Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States met for two days in June at NYU’s
"Mr. Wright's book gives the reader a searing view of the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, a view that is at once wrenchingly intimate and boldly sweeping in its historical perspective" ~ Michiko Kakutani of the New York The Looming Tower With questions by: Steven Simon, Senior Fellow for Middle Eastern Studies, Council on
JOIN US AS WE WELCOME JEREMY WALDRON, Newly-appointed Professor of Law and Philosophy, NYU School of Law
In the wake of the recent conflict in the Middle East, the NYU Law School’s Center on Law and Security is organizing a special open forum on Hezbollah on September 28th 2006 at 6pm in the Vanderbilt Hall at NYU. The open forum is part of a series of events planned this fall by the
Mary Ellen O’Connell is the Robert and Marion Short Chair in Law at the University of Notre Dame Law School. She taught for the Department of Defense as an associate professor at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany and as a visiting professor at the Bologna Center of
Bernard Haykel is an Associate Professor of Islamic Law and Politics at the Department of Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. He has published extensively on the Salafi movement in both its pre-modern and modern manifestations. In particular, his book entitled Revival and Reform in Islam fully explores this strand of Islamic
Featuring: Moderator - Peter Bergen Research Fellow, Center on Law and Security, CNN analyst and author, The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader Panelists: Dr. Alexis Debat Senior Fellow at the Nixon Center and Senior Consultant to ABC News; Former advisor to the French minister of Defense on Transatlantic
Tara McKelvey is a Senior Editor at the American Prospect and a Contributing Editor to Marie Claire magazine, and her articles have appeared in those publications as well as The Nation, the New York Times Book Review and Slate. She is now working on a book about a civil suit against private military contractors accused