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11.17.05
The Treatment and Interrogation of Detainees
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While U.S. officials in the past have made mistakes regarding the treatment of detainees, the Department of Defense and lawmakers are taking steps to clarify procedures and ensure that the United States is transparent in its policies, said panelists at a Nov. 17 discussion at the Law School. Speakers include the general counsel for the Senate Armed Services Committee, Department of Defense officials, and a Human Rights Watch military analyst.
11.10.05
The Global War on Terrorism: Defining the Roles of Law Enforcement and Military Force
Video: Introduction by John Norton Moore | David E. Graham | Spike Bowman Ruth Wedgwood | Question & Answer
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The war on terror, in which information from interrogations is a key tool in thwarting attacks, has been muddied by the difficulties of handling detainees in a legal system that was not designed for such use, said panelists during a forum at the Law School Nov. 10. Panelists include: David E. Graham, Executive Director, the Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School, U.S. Army; M. E. "Spike" Bowman, Director, Intelligence Issues Group, Directorate of Intelligence, FBI; and Ruth Wedgwood, Edward B. Burling Professor of International Law and Diplomacy and Director of the International Law and Organization Program, the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University. Moderated by John Norton Moore (pictured), Director, Center for National Security Law and Walter F. Brown Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law.
11.4.05
"The Politics of the Death Penalty," with Prof. Stephen Smith
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In states that have capital punishment, institutional pressures in the justice system skew the outcome in death penalty cases toward conviction and execution, law professor Stephen Smith said in lunch remarks to a Board of Trustees and Alumni Council meeting. Better funding for indigent defense and higher standards of effective representation for the accused would likely result in more life sentences and make execution more rare. "Mending it could end it," Smith said.
10.11.05: P. Browning Hoffman Memorial Lecture in Law and Psychiatry: "Autonomy Is Not the Answer: Rewriting the Law on Life-Sustaining Treatment for Dementia Patients," with Rebecca Dresser, Daniel Noyes Kirby Professor of Law and Professor of Ethics in Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis. Related Article
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9.27.05: "Reinstating Fairness to the Airwaves? On the FCC’s relinquished Fairness Doctrine and its reinstatement prospects from a comparative perspective," with Guy Carmi LL.M. '05
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9.6.05: Supreme Court Round-up | MP3 (right-click and select "save link as" or "save target as" to save file)
5.22.05: U.S.
Sen. Evan Bayh Speaks at Commencement | Full
Graduation Ceremonies
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3.15.05: Linda
Fairstein '72, Best-selling Author and Former Sex Crimes
Prosecutor for the New York County District Attorney's Office
Fairstein on: Starting
her career and prosecution during the 1970s, her
first high-profile case, and
DNA
and her latest book
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2.25.05: Paul
Pillar, National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia
Keynote Address, "Beyond the U.S. War on Terrorism: Comparing Domestic Legal
Remedies to an International Dilemma"
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2.16.05: "Public
Rights, Private Rights, and Statutory Retroactivity"
Ann Woolhandler, William Minor Lile Professor of Law
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2.12.05: Keynote
Address by Nadine Strossen, ACLU President
Conference on Public Service & the Law
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11.16.04: "Are
There Constitutional Rights?"
John Harrison,
D. Lurton Massee Chair Lecture
11.11.04: "The
Lawyer's Work in a Free Culture"
Lawrence Lessig, Lester Zittrain Distinguished Lecture
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10.27.04: "Dual
Nationality: TR's 'Self-Evident Absurdity'"
David
Martin, Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International
Law Lecture
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10.6.04: "Just
War Theory"
Garry Wills, The McCorkle Lecture
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9.23.04: "Judicial
Modesty"
Paul Stephan, Lewis
F. Powell, Jr., Professor of Law
Chair Lecture
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Article
4.22.04: "Closing
the Leadership Gap: The Necessity for Women in Leadership
Positions"
Governor Janet Napolitano '83, Recipient of
the 2004 Distinguished Alumna Award
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4.19.04: "Building
a Culture of Legal Affection"
Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Recipient of
the 2004 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law
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4.8.04: "Free
Speech in the Age of McCarthy: A Cautionary Tale"
The Brennan Center Thomas M. Jorde Symposium, with
Geoffrey
Stone
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Article
4.6.04: "25
Years on the Path to Justice: The Khmer Rouge and
Impunity in Cambodia"
Jennifer Rasmussen, Deputy
Director for Core Program Design at Global Rights
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Article
4.1.04: "Controversy,
Consensus and the Concept of Discrimination"
George
Rutherglen, John Barbee Minor Distinguished Professor of
Law | Lecture Text
3.18.04: "Churns,
Horses, and the Frameworks of the Law"
Glen Robinson, David
and Mary Harrison Distinguished Professor of Law Lecture
3.2.04: "Madison's
Belated Discovery of the First Amendment"
Vincent Blasi,
James Madison Distinguished Professor of Law Chair Lecture
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2.28.04: Justice
Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court of the United States,
speaking at the Fifth Annual Conference on Public Service & the
Law
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2.20.04: Symposium Panel on Brown and School Integration | Related Article
11.7.03: "The Liberal Case Against Affirmative Action," with University of Michigan philosophy professor Carl Cohen, Center for the Study of Race and Law Inaugural Lecture. Related Article
