The Role of the Judiciary in the War on Terror

When: Tuesday, June 7, 2005, at 7 p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42 West 44th Street.

As the white-hot national debate over the current war on terror intensifies, the Committee on Federal Courts of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Federalist Society, have brought together a distinguished group of panelists to examine the powers and limitations of the federal courts as tribunals for adjudication of cases involving terrorism, and the constitutional issues implicated by alternatives to the federal courts, including military commissions and courts martial.

Moderator:
MARY JO WHITE, Debevoise & Plimpton, LLP, former U.S. Attorney (S.D.N.Y.)

Speakers:
• BRADFORD A. BERENSON, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood, LLP
• BARBARA OLSHANSKY, Center for Constitutional Rights
• JOHN D. HUTSON, Dean/President, Franklin Pierce Law Center; Rear Admiral (ret.); formerly the Navy JAG
• HON. BARRINGTON D. PARKER, JR., U.S. Circuit Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals (2nd Circuit)
• HON. LOREN A. SMITH, Senior Judge, U.S. Court of Federal Claims
• DAVID B. RIVKIN, Baker & Hostetler.

About the Association
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