nationalsecuritylaw upcoming event: IHL workshop for students

* “International Humanitarian Law Workshop” January 4-7, 2011 (for students) (ICRC, Santa Clara U. School of Law)

This looks like a great event. Details follow, and also appear in the attached materials:

Presented by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), hosted at Santa Clara University School of Law

This workshop combines lectures and hands-on exercises that guide U.S. law students through an intensive workshop on international humanitarian law (IHL). The workshop will be led by legal professionals from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), lawyers for the U.S. Armed Forces, and law professors who specialize in IHL.

Topics will include:

• Introduction to International Humanitarian Law

• When Does IHL Apply?

• Human Rights and IHL

• Protected Persons

• Internment/Detention

• Armed Conflicts of a Non-International Character

• The IHL/Terrorism Interface

• Implementation and Enforcement of IHL

Students will receive a Certificate of Completion from the ICRC. The program is available only to full- and part-time law students. There is NO FEE. Registration is limited and competitive. Students are encouraged to apply early, as the workshop does fill up. Applications must be received by Monday, November 8, 2010.

For more information and an application, contact:

Center for Global Law and Policy

Santa Clara University School of Law

email: cglp

phone: 408-551-1955

800-728-1873

fax: 408-554-5047

web: www.scu.edu/law/international

Poster.pdf

Application.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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