Upcoming Conference
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18th Annual Review of the Field
of National Issues for the New Administration November 6 and 7, 2008 |
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About the Committee
The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, founded in 1962 by then-ABA President and later Supreme Court Justice Lewis J. Powell, conducts studies, sponsors programs and conferences, and administers working groups on law and national security-related issues. The Committee's activities assist policymakers, educate lawyers, the media and the public, and enable the Committee to make recommendations to the ABA. The Standing Committee provides research and advice on such subjects as the legal responses to terrorism, the restructuring of the intelligence community and its role in law enforcement, and operational international law in the conduct of the military.
Recent Events
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Sept. 25, 2008 |
Breakfast Program with the Honorable Stewart A. Baker, Assistant Secretary for Policy, United States Department of Homeland Security. Click here to listen to the podcast (running time: 40 minutes) |
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August 9, 2008 |
Local Police Fighting International Terrorism Click here to listen to the podcast (running time: 1 hr. 34 minutes) Click here for list of speakers.
Click here to listen to the podcast (running time: 1 hr. 02 minutes) Click here for list of speakers. |
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July 10, 2008 |
Federal Courts and Terrorists after Boumediene Moderated by Robert Litt. Panelists include Richard Zabel and Benjamin Wittes. Click Here to Listen to the Program (duration 1 hour/15 minutes) |
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June 17, 2008 |
Program on Supreme Court Ruling on Boumediene and Munaf.
Click here for podcast (1:50 minutes) |
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May 22, 2008 |
Rep. Jim Cooper (TN-05), on "Congress in the Roles and Missions Debate" Click here for audio (46 minutes). House Armed Services Committee Panel on Roles and Missions Report |
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April 30, 2008 |
Ambassador Frank Wisner, on “Kosovo: Its Independence and U.S. Policy” Click Here (47 minutes). |
March 3, 2008 |
Breakfast Program on FISA Reform featuring:
Please click here to listen to the podcast, (running time 73 minutes) Please click here to watch to the C-SPAN video. |
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December 19, 2007 |
Keynote address by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey before the Standing Committee. Click here. (running time 40 minutes) |
17th Annual Review of the Field of National Security Law
| 11/15/07 | Welcoming remarks and Panel I - Executive Branch Perspectives (partial panel-full panel to be posted soon) Click here to listen (running time: 1 hour) |
| Panel IV – Extraordinary Rendition Moderated by Scott Silliman, panelists include Robert Chesney, John Radsan, Margaret Satterthwaite and Michael Scheuer. Click here to listen Part 1 (running time: 59 minutes) Click here to listen Part 2 (running time: 54 minutes) |
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| Panel V – National Security Strategy for a New Administration Moderated by John Norton Moore, panelists include Kurt Campbell, Jeffrey Smith, Nicholas Rostow and Marin Strmecki. Click here to listen Part 1 (running time: 101 minutes) Click here to listen Part 2 (running time: 39 minutes) |
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| Luncheon Keynote Speech:
Major General Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF, Deputy Judge Advocate General, United States Air Force “Lawfare and Warfare” (click here to listen) (running time: 103 minutes) |
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| Luncheon Keynote Speech: Congressman James Cooper, Chair, Special Committee on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces, House Armed Services Committee Click here to listen (running time: 45 minutes) |
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| Dinner Speech by the Honorable James Comey, SVP and GC, Lockheed Martin and Former Deputy AG, Justice Click here to listen (running time: 45 minutes) |
Full panels will be posted as soon as they become available.
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Nov. 15-16 2007 |
MCLE Conference Materials Day1(9.1MB) |
Renaissance Hotel 999 Ninth St., NW Wash., DC (Metro accessible) |
New Writing Competition Announced
The Standing Committee is pleased to announce the "New Perspectives for a New Threat: student analysis of a timely issue at the intersection of law and national security" writing competition, open to all students of ABA accredited law schools.
Deadline has been extended to October 1, 2008.
For more information please click here
Contact
Contact Information:
Holly McMahon, Staff Director
740 15th Street, NW, 9th Floor
Washington, DC 20005-1022
Phone: (202) 662-1035
Fax: (202) 662-1032
E-mail: hmcmahon@staff.abanet.org
Recent Publications
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Standing Committee on Law and National Security announces: Careers in National Security Law - a resource for law students and young lawyers Click here to read on-line version. To order the book, visit www.ababooks.org or call 1-800-285-2221 |
National Security Law Report
The June 2008 National Security Law Report has been released.
Please join us in welcoming our new newsletter editor, Gregory S. McNeal, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Pennsylvania State University, The Dickinson School of Law. He can be reached at gsmcneal@psu.edu.
In this issue we present a dialogue between Richard Klinger (Sidley Austin LLP) and Stephen Vladeck (American University) regarding the Supreme Court's OT 2007 national security jurisprudence. Michael Newton (Vanderbilt University) provides his commentary on Munaf while Julian Davis Mortenson (Fordman University) comments about the implications of Boumediene. We also highlight the recipient of the Morris I. Leibman Award, Professor Howard S. Levie and announce the 2008 National Security Law Student Writing Competition.
- The Court, The Culture Wars and Real Wars
- Reflecting on Boumediene: The Substance of Habeas and the Futility of Exhaustion
- Commentary: Munaf, Bigger than Boumediene?
- Commentary: Boumediene: The Path Forward
- Morris I. Leibman Award Presented to Professor Howard S. Levie
- ABA Committee Announces the 2008 National Security Law Student Writing Competition
- In Case You Missed It
Patriot Debates Online!
Read the online version of Patriot Debates, containing detailed essays by noted legal experts on 16 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.
