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AGENDA

Thursday, April 16th

Opening Comments

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

Panel I: Surveillance and Intelligence Gathering

• Christopher H. Schroeder, Chair
  Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies, Duke University
• William C. Banks
  Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor of Law, Syracuse University
• Michael Davidson
  General Counsel, Select Committee on Intelligence, United States Senate
• Melissa Goodman
  Staff Attorney, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union

Panel II: Strategic Change in Afghanistan and Iraq: Debating the Policy

• Robert M. Chesney, Chair
  Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law; and Visiting Professor, University of Texas School of Law
• Anthony Harriman
  Former Special Advisor for Policy Implementation, and Former Senior Director for Afghanistan, National Security Council
• Vikram J. Singh
  Fellow, Center for a New American Security
• Stephen Tanner
  Author and Military Historian

Keynote Address

• Honorable David Price
  United States House of Representatives (D-NC 4)

Panel III: The Impact of Immigration Policy on National Security

• David H. Schanzer, Chair
  Visiting Associate Professor of the Practice for Public Policy Studies, Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy, Duke University; and Director, Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security
• Edward Alden
  Council on Foreign Relations
• Stephen R. Kelly
  U.S. Department of State Diplomat in Residence, Duke University
• Jessica Vaughan
  Center for Immigration Studies

Keynote Address

• His Excellency Dr. Hussein Hassouna
  Ambassador, League of Arab States

Friday, April 17th

Panel IV: Detaining and Prosecuting Terrorists: Establishing a New Paradigm

• Professor Scott L. Silliman, Chair
• John D. Altenburg, Jr., MAJ GEN, USA (Ret.)
  Of Counsel, Greenberg Traurig; and Former Appointing Authority for Military Commissions
• Jonathan Hafetz
  Attorney, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union
• CDR Glenn M. Sulmasy, USCG
  Associate Professor of Law, Department of Humanities, Law Section, United States Coast Guard Academy

Panel V: Public Diplomacy: From Rhetoric to Strategy

• Bruce W. Jentleson, Chair
  Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
• Helle C. Dale
  Foreign Affairs Specialist, Heritage Foundation
• Ambassador David C. Litt
  Executive Director, Center for Stabilization and Economic Reconstruction, Institute for Defense & Business
• Keith Reinhard
  President, Business for Diplomatic Action; and Chairman Emeritus, DDB Worldwide

Keynote Address: “Meeting the Threat to the Homeland”

• Honorable Stewart A. Baker
  Former Assistant Secretary for Policy, Department of Homeland Security

Panel VI: Rethinking the U.S. Relationship to the International Criminal Court

• Curtis A. Bradley, Chair
  Richard A. Horvitz Professor of Law and Professor of Public Policy Studies, and Law School Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Duke University
• John B. Bellinger III
  Former Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
• John Dugard
  Chair, Public International Law, University of Leiden; and Visiting Professor of Law, Duke University
• Tod Lindberg
  Research Fellow and Editor, Policy Review, Hoover Institute, Stanford University