nationalsecuritylaw The Fourth Annual National Security Law Workshop (this Thursday and Friday at the US Army JAG School)

* Upcoming Event: The Fourth Annual National Security Law Workshop (this Thursday and Friday at the US Army JAG School)

I’m pleased to report that the Fourth Annual National Security Law Workshop is shaping up to be the best one yet. Geoff Corn and I started this event several years ago, in partnership with the ICRC and the US Army JAG School, with an event at Wake Forest. The past two years we’ve had it in Austin, and now this year’s event will take place at the JAG School in Charlottesville. As you’ll see from the agenda below, we’ve got a great lineup of papers, speakers, presentations, and discussions. All of our space is now booked up, unfortunately, but please keep the event in mind for next year!

Day 1 – Thursday, 19 May

0800-0815 – Introduction

0815-0915 – Paper #1 (MAJ Todd Lindquist – Transnational law enforcement) / Discussant: Prof. Bobby Chesney, UT

0930-1100 – Presentation #1 (LTC Gary Corn, JCS – JCS Legal issues)

1110-1210 – Paper #2 (Prof. Kate Jastram, U Cal, Berkeley – Complementarity) / Discussant: Major Jeremy Marsh

1210-1300 – Lunch (Catered – 5th Floor)

1300-1400 – Paper #3 (Prof. Kevin Cieply, John Marshall – Rape as a War Crime) / Discussant: Prof. Geoff Corn, S Tex

1410-1500 – Paper #4 (Prof. Laurie Blank, Emory – Operationalizing ROE) / LTC Jeff Bovarnick

1510 – 1630 – Roundtable Panel #1 / Discussion – Libya

Day 2 – Friday, 20 May

0800-0900 – Paper #5 (Capt Iain Pedden – IHL/IHRL/COIN) / Discussant: Prof. Beth Van Schaak, Santa Clara

0900-1030 – Presentation #2 (MAJ Shane Reeves – Means & Methods of Warfare)

1040-1140 – Paper #6 (Prof. Deborah Pearlstein – Civ-Mil Relations) / Discussant: Dick Jackson, OTJAG I-Law

1140-1300 – Lunch (Darden Business School)

1300-1400 – Paper #7 (Prof. Steve Vladek, American U – Exceptional Courts) / Discussant: Prof. Dave Glazier, Loyola

1410-1500 – Paper #8 (Major Andy Gillman – Proportionality) / Discussant: Prof. Scott Sullivan, LSU

1510-1630 – Roundtable Panel / Discussion – The UBL Operation

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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