nationalsecuritylaw more upcoming events: HPCR on Libya, CIAJ on Recent Developments in Anti-Terrorism

* More upcoming events:

1. Harvard University Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, “Crisis in Libya: Planning the International Response”

On April 5 at 9:30 (EDT – Boston) we’ll be presenting our next Live Web Seminar on the “Crisis in Libya: Planning the International Response.” The presenters include Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Prosecutor, ICC; R. Nicholas Burns, The Sultan of Oman Professor of the Practice of International Relations, Harvard KSG; Sarah Leah Whitson, Executive Director, Middle East and North Africa Division, HRW; Dirk Vandewalle, Associate Professor of Government, Dartmouth College; and Philippa Thomas, Nieman Fellow, Harvard University & Foreign Correspondent, BBC.

As always, registration to the Live Web Seminar is free, and we’ve posted a few background materials on the IHL Research Initiative Portal (where a registration link is available, too): http://ihl.ihlresearch.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewPage&pageID=2130.

2. Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, “Terrorism, Law and Democracy: 10 Years after 9/11”

This is a very impressive event. I can’t copy over the details into the text of this email because of my own formatting issues, but please click through to see the schedule and the registration details: http://ccct-cctj.ca/terrorism-law-democracy-10-years-after-911/

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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