upcoming event: “Nine Years Later: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America”

* upcoming event: "Nine Years Later: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America"(U. Penn. 10/28/10, 6:00-8:00)

The Asian American Studies Program and South Asia Center of the University of Pennsylvania invite you to the following panel discussion

Nine Years Later: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Post-9/11 America

This forum will address the state of civil rights and civil liberties in the United States in the post-9/11 context, focusing especially on the impact of the law on Muslims domestically and the battle for hearts and minds abroad.

Confirmed panelists include:

* Baher Azmy, Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School

* Hope Metcalf, Clinical Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School

* Kermit Roosevelt, Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

* Steve Vladeck, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University

* Sarah Paoletti (moderator), Practice Associate Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania

The event will be held on Thursday, September 28th from 6:00pm-8:00pm at the Class of 1949 Auditorium, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. It is free and open to the public.

For more information, please contact Dawinder "Dave" S. Sidhu at sidhu.

Special thanks to the Muslim Law Students Association

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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