nationalsecuritylaw audio from “Moving Targets: Issues at the Intersection of National Security and American Criminal Law” (Georgetown, Apr. 12, 2011)

* audio from "Moving Targets: Issues at the Intersection of National Security and American Criminal Law" (Georgetown, Apr. 12, 2011)

A webcast of the event is available here.

"Moving Targets: Issues at the Intersection of National Security and American Criminal Law.

On April 12, 2011, The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law and The American Criminal Law Review co-hosted an event entitled "Moving Targets: Issues at the Intersection of National Security and American Criminal Law.

The first panel was entitled "Where One Ends and the Other Begins: Finding the Boundaries of Criminal Law and National Security on the issue of Military Commission" and featured the following distinguished panelists:

Marty Lederman Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel

Matthew OlsenGeneral Counsel for the National Security Agency

Aziz HuqAssistant Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School

Laura Donohue (moderator) • Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Acting Director of the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law

The second panel was entitled "The Role of Domestic Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Border Surveillance" and featured the following distinguished panelists:

Julie O’Sullivan • Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Abbe Smith • Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center;Director, Criminal Defense and Prisoner Advocacy Clinic

John Stanton • Executive Director, National Air Security Operations, Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security

James Zirkle • Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center; Former Associate General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency

Stephen Vladeck (moderator) • Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law

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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