Terrorism: Learning From the U.S. Response to 9/11

When: Thursday, April 6, 2006; 6-8 p.m.
Where: New York City Bar Association, 42 West 44 th Street

This program will focus on the important U.S. and international law issues arising from the 9/11 tragedy and the responses of the U.S. government to such acts of terrorism. Topics will include military trials and detentions, “enemy combatants,” “extraordinary rendition,” and the PATRIOT Act. A brief reception will follow.

Program Co-Chairs:
JAMES R. SILKENAT, Arent Fox; Former Chair, ABA Section of International Law; Chair, Council on International Affairs, New York City Bar;

BETTINA B. PLEVAN, President, New York City Bar; Proskauer Rose.

Speakers:
JAMES R. THOMPSON, Winston & Strawn, Chicago, Illinois; Commissioner, National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the U.S.; Former Governor of Illinois;

EUGENE R. FIDELL, President, National Institute of Military Justice; Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell, LLP.

Commentators:
MILES FISCHER, Former Chair, Committee on Military Affairs and Justice, NYC Bar;

SIDNEY ROSDEITCHER, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison;

MARTIN FLAHERTY, Professor, Fordham University School of Law; Chair, Committee on International Human Rights, New York City Bar.

About the Association
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York (www.nycbar.org) was founded in 1870, and since then has been dedicated to maintaining the high ethical standards of the profession, promoting reform of the law, and providing service to the profession and the public.

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