Media Advisory
December 11, 2007
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Contact:
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Beyond Guantanamo :
Administering
Justice And Protecting
National Security
When: Thursday, December
13, 2007 at 7:00
p.m.
Where: House of the Association, 42
West 44th Street (between
5 th & 6 th Avenues)
What: New York City Bar
Association Symposium sponsored by the Task
Force on National Security & the Rule of
Law
How to be true to our traditions and guarantees
prohibiting arbitrary detention and the denial
of liberty without due process while protecting
the Nation against terrorist threats is one of
the most pressing questions of our time. The
panel will address this question and the many
difficult underlying issues it presents, including:
- Is our traditional criminal justice process
with all of its constitutional guarantees adequate
to achieve justice and security?
- Is there a need for some modified system,
such as a National Security Court ?
- Should we look instead to our military justice
system of courts-martial, or some other form
of military tribunal or commission?
- Does the need for intelligence to combat
terrorist threats justify some form of preventive
detention that would permit interrogation of
persons suspected of plotting terrorist acts
or having knowledge vital to preventing them?
- How can the need to preserve classified
information be accommodated with the basic
right to confront one’s accusers and
the evidence?
Moderator
Adam Liptak,
National Legal Correspondent, The New York Times
Panelists
Kenneth Roth, Executive Director,
Human Rights Watch
Margaret Stock, Lieutenant
Colonel, MP Corps , US Army Reserve; Associate
Professor, US Military Academy
Glenn Sulmasy, Professor
of Law, United States Coast Guard Academy
Jeremy Waldron, University
Professor and Professor of Law and Political
Philosophy, NYU School of Law
Vincent Vitkowsky, Partner,
Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge
About the Association
The New York
City Bar Association (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. The Association continues to
work for political, legal and social reform,
while implementing innovative means to help
the disadvantaged. Protecting the public’s welfare remains one of the
Association’s highest priorities.
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