Center on Law, Ethics and National Security

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Thursday, April 10th

Registration and Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)
8:00 am

Opening Comments
8:30 am

• Scott L. Silliman
  Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University

Panel I: Using Private Military Contractors: Issues of Accountability

8:45 am

• Christopher H. Schroeder, Chair
  Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies, Duke University
• Deborah Pearlstein
  Visiting Scholar, Princeton University and Past Director, Law and National Security Program at Human Rights First
• Scott Horton
  Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
• Stephen Hedger
  Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Claire McCaskill (D MO)
• Nadia Naviwala
  Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Jim Webb (D VA)

Panel II: FISA Reform

10:45 am

• Robert M. Chesney, Chair
  Associate Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
• Lisa Graves
  Deputy Director, Center for National Security Studies
• Suzanne Spaulding
  Principal, Bingham Consulting Group
• The Honorable Benjamin A. Powell
  General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
• James Baker
  Counsel for Intelligence Policy, National Security Division, Justice Department (2001-2007); Resident Fellow, Institute for Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2007)

Luncheon: “Shaping our Foreign Policy for the Continuing War on Terrorism”

12:45 pm

• Bruce W. Jentleson
  Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
• Peter D. Feaver
  Alexander E. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University

Panel III: The War on Terrorism: Role of the International Community

2:15 pm

• A. Mark Weisburd, Chair
  Martha M. Brandis Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
• Amos N. Guiora
  Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
• Ron Atkey PC, QC
  Counsel on Security Intelligence, UWO Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada; Amicus Curiae to the Arar Commission; and first Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (Canada)
• The Honorable Nicholas Rostow
  University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, The State University of New York; former Senior Policy Adviser to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
• David Bickford
  Former Legal Director, MI 5/MI 6

Reception & Dinner: “Iraq: Acknowledging Past Errors and Future Challenges”

6:30 pm

• His Excellency Samir Sumaida'ie
  Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the United States

Friday, April 11th

Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)
7:45 am

Panel IV: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in our Federal Courts

8:45 am

• Sara Sun Beale, Chair
  Charles L. B. Lowndes Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
• Norman Abrams
  Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law
• Michael E. Tigar
  Visiting Professor, Duke University School of Law
• Karl Metzner
  Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, Office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
• The Honorable David B. Sentelle
  Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Panel V: Extraordinary Rendition

10:45 am

• Professor Scott L. Silliman, Chair
  Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University
• John Radsan
  Associate Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law
• Aziz Huq
  Deputy Director, Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law
• Michael F. Scheuer
  Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
• Mark Mazzetti
  Correspondent, The New York Times

Luncheon: “Domestic Security Considerations for 2009 and Beyond”

12:45 pm

• Paul Rosenzweig
  Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Panel VI: The Role of the Lawyer in the War on Terrorism

2:15 pm

• Kathryn W. Bradley, Chair
  Senior Lecturing Fellow, Duke University School of Law
• Major General Jack L. Rives, USAF
  The Judge Advocate General, United States Air Force
• John T. Martinez
  Assistant General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
• David J. Luban
  University Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
• Patrick F. Philbin
  Partner, Kirkland & Ellis

Adjourn

4:00 pm

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