The federal judiciary plays an important role in shaping and answering emerging questions about national security law. This panel, moderated by LENS Director Emeritus Scott Silliman, a deputy chief judge in the U.S. Court of Military Commission Review, features three federal judges discussing the difficult national security issues heard in courts like theirs.

Join Judge Sentelle, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, for an engaging discussion of extraordinary rendition in the War on Terror.

Co-sponsored by the Federalist Society and the Program in Public Law.

Recorded on March 28, 2008.

Lecture titled: Bring 'Em Back Alive: Extraordinary Rendition in the War on Terror.

Appearing: Scott Silliman (Duke University School of Law), introduer; David Sentelle (U.S. Court of Appeals), speaker.

Summary: D.C. Circuit Judge David Sentelle, arguably the foremost expert on national security in the federal judiciary, speaks to Duke Law on his perspective about how the role of courts has changed and will continue to change in light of modern national security concerns.

Recorded on April 13, 2005.

Appearing: Speaker: David Sentelle.