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Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice To Detainees

Friday, 03/20/2009 12:00 PM (EST)

David Laufman, Partner, Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

Deborah Pearlstein, Associate Research Scholar in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University

Gabor Rona, International Legal Director, Human Rights First

Matt Waxman, Professor, Columbia Law School and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs


Stephen Vladeck, Professor, American University Washington College of Law




The panelists will explore the legal and constitutional issues raised by President Obama's executive orders on detention and , including potential proposals for the establishment of a national security court and a preventive detention regime.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law, The Constitution Project and Human Rights First.

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News & Politics

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• Georgetown
• Law
• Guantanamo
• detention
• national
• security
• constitution

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"Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice to Detainees"