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Participants Eligible for Florida
Bar CLE Credits The current tensions between
national security and civil liberties will be the focus of a
daylong FIU symposium with distinguished
scholars from around the country.
At War With Civil Rights and
Civil Liberties: A Constitutional Symposium will take place Fri., Oct.
17 from 8:30 a.m. – 5
p.m. in the FIU-University Park Graham Center Ballroom.
The symposium is being sponsored
by the FIU College of Law and the Jack D. Gordon Institute for
Public Policy and Citizenship
Studies, part of the FIU Center for
Transnational and Comparative Studies. Members of the Florida Bar can receive
seven intermediate hours of continuing legal education credits for attending.
It is free and open to the public.
Six scholars will give presentations
during the symposium, each highlighting various dimensions of
the critical and timely issue of how to position individual
rights in times of heightened national security. The speakers are from top
universities and institutions and are widely published on legal issues.
“They are superb,” said John Stack, FIU professor of Political Science
and Law and director of the Gordon Institute, who organized the symposium with
Thomas E. Baker, FIU professor of Law. “They are nationally recognized
Constitutionalists.”
The symposium program includes:
9 a.m. - Philip Bobbit, University
of Texas Law School A.W. Walker Centennial Chair in Law and former
associate counsel to the
President of the United
States. He will address “The Constitutional Order.” 9:45
a.m. - Michael Greenberger,
professor and director of the Center for Health and Homeland
Security at the University of Maryland Law School.
He will speak
on “Post 9/11 Use of the Material Witness Statute: Is the Justice Department
Thinking Outside the Box?”
10:30 a.m. - Louis Fisher, a senior
specialist in American national government at the Congressional
Research Service of the Library of Congress. He
will address “Detainees
and Enemy Combatants After 9/11.”
1:30 p.m. - Lee Epstein, Washington
University professor of political science and law. She will speak
on “Supreme Court Decision Making During Times
of Crisis.”
2:15 p.m. - Mark Graber, professor
of government at the University of Maryland. His presentation
will be “Who Criticizes: Dissent During Wartime.”
3 p.m. - Mark Tushnet,
a professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University. His
lecture will be “Between Alarmism and Complacency.”
For more information, visit the conference
web page at www.fiu.edu/~ippcs/conferences.html or call 305-348-2977.
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