Understanding Detention and Predicting Prosecutions: Legal Challenges and Legislative Options Ten Years After 9/11
Friday, February 4, 2011
12:00pm – 6:00pm
John Chipman Gray Room
- Click here to view Part 1 of the symposium
- Click here to view Part 2 of the symposium
- Click here to view Part 3 of the symposium
12:00-1:00: Keynote Address by William K. Lietzau – “Twenty-First Century Detention for Terrorists”
- Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy
1:15-2:45: Understanding Detention Panel
- 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)
3:00-4:30: Predicting Prosecutions Panel
- 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)
4:45-6:00: Wine and cheese reception
Sponsored by the Harvard National Security Journal and the Harvard National Security & Law Association, with generous support from the Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Fund