* “National Security Challenges and the Obama Administration” – Duke University, Thursday April 15 and Friday April 16
Most of you probably already know about Scott Silliman’s annual national security conference at Duke. It’s always a terrific event, and this year promises to be terrific! Details are in the attached documents, and the agenda appears below:
Thursday, April 15th
8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)
8:30 am Opening Comments
Scott L. Silliman
Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director,
Center on Law, Ethics and National Security
Duke University
8:45 am Panel I: Dealing with Radicalization
Chair: David H. Schanzer
Associate Professor of the Practice for Public Policy
Sanford School of Public Policy
Duke University; and
Director, Triangle Center of Terrorism and Homeland Security
Speakers: Daniel Kimmage
Independent Consultant and
Senior Fellow
Homeland Security Policy Institute
Charles Kurzman
Professor of Sociology
University of North Carolina
2
Thursday, April 15th (cont’d)
Robert Leiken
Director, Immigration and National Security Program
The Nixon Center
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Panel II: Cyber Security and Cyber Warfare
Chair: Spike Bowman
Distinguished Fellow
Center for National Security Law
University of Virginia
Speakers: Kim Taipale
Founder and Executive Director
Center for Advanced Students in Science
and Technology Policy
Paul Rosenzweig
Red Branch Consulting PLLC
Bradford Bleier
Supervisory Special Agent
Cyber Division
Federal Bureau of Investigation
12:30 pm Break
12:45 pm Luncheon (R. David Thomas Center)
Speaker: The Honorable Jeh Johnson
General Counsel
U.S. Department of Defense
2:15 pm Panel III: Prosecuting Alleged Terrorists in Federal District Courts
and Military Commissions
Chair: Professor Scott L. Silliman
Speakers: Deborah Pearlstein
Visiting Scholar, Program in Law and Public Affairs
Princeton University
Mary V. Perry
Office of the General Counsel
U.S. Department of Defense
3
Thursday, April 15th (cont’d)
Michael F. Noone, Jr.
Research Professor
Columbus School of Law
The Catholic University of America
4:00 pm Break
6:30 pm Reception (R. David Thomas Center)
7:00 pm Dinner (R. David Thomas Center)
Speaker: His Excellency Aziz Mekouar
Ambassador of the Kingdom of Morocco
to the United States
Friday, April 16th
8:00 am Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)
8:45 am Panel IV: Terrorism and the Use of Force
Chair: Noah Weisbord
Visiting Assistant Professor of Law
Duke University
Speakers: Michael J. Glennon
Professor of International Law
The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
Tufts University
Payam Akhavan
Associate Professor of Law
McGill University Faculty of Law
William C. Banks
Board of Advisors Distinguished Professor of Law
Syracuse University
10:30 am Break
10:45 am Panel V: Terrorism and International Human Rights
Chair: Laurence R. Helfer
Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law
Duke University
4
Friday, April 16th (cont’d)
Speakers: Douglass Cassel
Professor of Law and
Director of the Center for Civil and Human Rights
University of Notre Dame
Vijay Padmanabhan
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Cardozo School of Law
Yeshiva University
Edward J. Flynn
Senior Human Rights Officer
Security Council Counter-Terrorism Committee
United Nations
12:30 pm Break
12:45 pm Luncheon (R. David Thomas Center)
Speaker: The Honorable Robert S. Litt
General Counsel
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
2:15 pm Panel VI: Environmental Changes and National Security
Chair: Ryke Longest
Senior Lecturing Fellow and Director of the
Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
Duke University
Speakers: Stephen Dycus
Professor of Law
Vermont Law School
John S. Applegate
Professor of Law
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
Colonel Thomas F. Zimmerman, USAF
Chief, Environmental Law and Litigation Division
Office of The Judge Advocate General
United States Air Force
4:00 pm Adjourn
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