nationalsecuritylaw upcoming event: 2011 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: The Role of Accountability in Protecting Human Rights & National Security

* Upcoming event: 2011 Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights: The Role of Accountability in Protecting Human Rights & National Security (Georgetown, Mar. 15)

Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights:

The Role of Accountability in Protecting Human Rights and National Security

Tuesday, March 15, 2011 | 9:30 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Georgetown Law | Gewirz Student Center, 12th floor | 120 F Street NW | Washington, DC

Sponsored by: Georgetown Law’s Human Rights Institute,

Georgetown Law’s Center on National Security and the Law, and Human Rights First

Please register for the conference by clicking here.

9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m.
Registration, Breakfast, Welcome

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
Panel 1: Addressing the State Secrets Privilege

· Louis Fisher, Scholar in Residence, The Constitution Project

· Daryl Joseffer, Partner, King & Spaulding LLP; former Principal Deputy U.S. Solicitor General

· Eric Lichtblau, National Security Reporter, The New York Times

· Heather Sawyer, Counsel, House Judiciary Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties

· Moderator: Laura Donohue, Associate Professor and Acting Director, Center for National Security and the Law, Georgetown Law

11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Panel 2: Pursuing Accountability for Human Rights Violations in the National Security Context: Domestic, Regional, and International Strategies

· Katherine Gallagher, Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

· James A. Goldston, Executive Director, Open Society Justice Initiative

· Ben Wizner, Litigation Director, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union

· Moderator: Melina Milazzo, Pennoyer Fellow, Human Rights First

1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Lunch Remarks by Robert F. Muse, Partner, Stein, Mitchell & Muse LLP

2:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Panel 3: Accountability for Private Security Contractors

· Ilona Cohen, Majority Counsel, Senate Committee on Armed Services

· Mark DeWitt, Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs, Triple Canopy

· Richard Fontaine, Senior Fellow, Center for a New American Security

· Jason Pielemeier, Special Advisor, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, U.S. Department of State

· Moshe Schwartz, Specialist in Defense Acquisition Policy, Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division, Congressional Research Service

· Moderator: Devon Chaffee, Advocacy Counsel, Human Rights First

2011 Dash Conference Agenda.doc

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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