Event Today: Understanding Detention and Predicting Prosecutions

Benjamin Wittes
Friday, February 4, 2011, 8:56 AM
 

Harvard Law School's National Security Journal and National Security and Law Association are co-hosting a great event today up in snowy Cambridge.

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Harvard Law School's National Security Journal and National Security and Law Association are co-hosting a great event today up in snowy Cambridge. Bobby, Ben, and Jack will be joining a host of other scholars to discuss terrorism-related detentions and prosecutions ten years after 9/11. 

A live video stream will be available here when the keynote starts at noon--check it out! 

UPDATE: The feed seems to be working with Chrome and Firefox. Hope you're able to access it! 

Understanding Detention and Predicting Prosecutions: Legal Challenges and Legislative Options Ten Years After 9/11 

  

12:00pm: "Twenty-First Century Detention for Terrorists" Keynote Address by William K Lietzau

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy 

  

1:15pm: Understanding Detention Panel, featuring: 

Prof. Robert Chesney, University of Texas - Austin Law School Benjamin Wittes, Brookings Institution Major Robert Barnsby, US Army JAG Legal Center and School Jamie Williamson, International Committee of the Red Cross Prof. Matthew Waxman, Columbia Law School, Moderator 

3:00pm: Predicting Prosecutions Panel, featuring

Prof. Philip Heymann, Harvard Law School Prof. Rick Pildes, New York University Law School Ben Wizner, ACLU National Security Project Prof. Jack Goldsmith, Harvard Law School Prof. Gabriella Blum, Harvard Law School, Moderator 

NOTE: Video will not work until event begins. Problems? Click here to view video in QuickTime player.


Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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