next week: 3rd Annual National Security Law Faculty Workshop/IHL Training (Austin, April 1-2)

* Third Annual National Security Law Faculty Workshop/IHL Training – University of Texas, Austin (Thursday April 1 and Friday April 2)

My thanks to Geoff Corn at South Texas, Paul Kong at the ICRC, and Trevor Rush at the Army JAG School for helping assemble what promises to be a very fun event. While we have almost no space for additional guests on Thursday April 1st, we do have ample room for drop-ins on Friday April 2nd. Do join us on the latter day if you can!

Agenda

Wednesday March 31

7:00-9:30 Welcome dinner (at the AT&T Conference Center – Gabriel’s)

Thursday April 1 (The Eidmann Jury Room (room 2.310 on the map here) at the UT School of Law)

8:45-9:00 Introductions

9:00-10:00 Paper Presentation 1

Laura Donohue (Georgetown), The Long Shadow of State Secrets

Discussant: Bobby Chesney (Texas)

10:10-11:10 Instruction Block 1

LTC Jeff Bovarnick (TJAGLCS), Detention Operations and Detainee Review Boards in Afghanistan

11:20-12:20 Paper Presentation 2

Vijay M. Padmanabhan (Cardozo), Four Challenges to the Geneva Conventions Posed by Contemporary Conflicts (with John B. Bellinger, III)

Discussant: Scott Sullivan (LSU)

12:20-1:20 Lunch (including roundtable discussion of other attendees’ works-in-progress)

1:20-2:20 Instruction Block 2

Jamie Williamson (ICRC), IHL Hot Topics: Direct Participation in Hostilities, Air/Missile Warfare

2:30-3:30 Paper Presentation 3

Eric Jensen (Fordham) & Chris Jenks (Army), Detention and the Law of War

Discussant: Julian Davis Mortensen (Michigan)

3:40-4:40 Instruction Block 3

Discussion (led by Jamie Williamson, ICRC), IHL and the Future Battlefield

4:40-7:00 Free Time

7:00-9:30 Dinner (Garrido’s, downtown Austin (bus will pick up the group at the AT&T Center at 7:15, will return around 9:45)

Friday April 2 (The Brown Room, LBJ Presidential Library – map here)

9:00-10:00 Instruction Block 4

Roundtable: Military Commissions

10:10-11:10 Paper Presentation 4

Sudha Setty (Western New England), Comparative Perspectives on Specialized Courts for Terrorism Trials

Discussant: John Ip (Auckland)

11:20-12:20 Instruction Block 5

Maj Jeremy Marsh (TJAGLCS), MAJ Greg Musselman (TJAGLCS), Military Operations at the intersection of International Criminal and International Human Rights Law

12:20-1:20 Lunch (including roundtable discussion of other attendees’ works-in-progress)

1:20-2:20 Paper Presentation 5

Kathleen Clark (Washington University), Congress’ Right to Counsel in Intelligence Oversight

Discussant: Tung Yin (Lewis & Clark)

2:30-3:30 Instruction Block 6

MAJ Rob Barnsby (TJAGLCS), Intelligence Law

3:40-4:40 Paper Presentation 6

Paul A. Walker (Navy), Rethinking Computer Network “Attack”: Implications for Law and U.S. Doctrine

Discussant: Eric Jensen (Fordham)

4:40 – Event concludes; no formal dinner plans

By Robert M. Chesney

Robert M. Chesney is Charles I. Francis Professor in Law at UT-Austin School of Law. Chesney is a national security law specialist, with a particular interest in problems associated with terrorism. Professor Chesney recently served in the Justice Department in connection with the Detainee Policy Task Force created by Executive Order 13493. He is a member of the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security, a senior editor for the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, an associate member of the Intelligence Science Board, a non-resident senior fellow of the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the American Law Institute. Professor Chesney has published extensively on topics ranging from detention and prosecution in the counterterrorism context to the states secrets privilege. He served previously as chair of the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools and as editor of the National Security Law Report (published by the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security). His upcoming projects include two books under contract with Oxford University Press, one concerning the evolution of detention law and policy and the other examining the judicial role in national security affairs.

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