Standing Committee on Law and National Security Calendar
Recent Events
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November 18, 2010 |
Breakfast Program
University Club National Security Law in Practice: The Department of Defense W. Hays Parks Click here to listen to podcast. |
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October |
Lunch Program
Army Navy Club Richard Clarke Richard Clarke is an internationally recognized expert on security, including homeland security, counterterrorism, and cyber security. Click here to listen to podcast. |
| October 2, 2010 |
Seminar on Teaching National
Security Law
L’Enfant Plaza
Hotel Keynote Remarks by Click for CONFERENCE PROGRAM. |
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September |
Breakfast Program
Intelligence Reform and Reducing Overclassification University Club Congresswoman Jane Harman Click here to listen to podcast. |
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August 5-10, 2010 |
American Bar Association 2010 San Francisco Annual Meeting Programs in National Security Law
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May 5, 2010 8:00-9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast Meeting
“National Security Law Issues – A CIA Perspective” University Club Speaker |
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April 22, 2010 5:00-7:00 p.m. |
Legal Issues Related to
Targeted Killings
Reserve Officers Association Building Click here for program flyer. To view the video of Legal Issues Related to Targeted Killings click here. Click here for Recommended Readings on Legal Issues Related to Targeted Killings. Click here to listen to podcast. |
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April 15, 2010 8:00-9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast Meeting
The Constitution and the War Against Terrorists SpeakerThe Honorable Edwin Meese III Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and Chairman of the Center for Legal and Judicial Studies, The Heritage Foundation University Club Click here to listen to podcast. |
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Mar. 16, 2010 8:00-9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast Meeting
The Role of Law in the
Obama Administration's University Club Speaker Click here to listen to podcast. |
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Mar. 3, 2010 | Breakfast Meeting
Sledgehammer or Scalpel? University Club Speaker Click here to listen to podcast. |
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Jan. 27, 2010 12:00 noon - 1:30 p.m. |
Professional Military Education in the 21st Century –
New Threats, New Institutions and
New Missions for the Military and the Intelligence Communities Army-Navy Club Speaker |
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Dec. 17, 2009 8:00 - 9:00 a.m. |
Breakfast Program Trying Terrorists in Article III Courts Keynote Address University Club Click here to listen to podcast. |
| Sept. 21, 2009 5 - 6:30 p.m. |
Classified Matters and
Professional
Challenges to Attorneys in the Legislative and Executive Branches National Press Club Click here to watch the program. Click here for list of program speakers. |
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Sept. 10, 2009 8:00 a.m. |
Breakfast Program Current Legal Issues in the Department of Defense Speaker University Club Click here to download podcast. Click Here to read the Transcript. |
| August 1, 2009 | National Security Threats
in Cyberspace Hyatt Regency Chicago Water tower, Bronze Level West Tower 151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, IL Click here to listen to podcast |
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| August 1, 2009 | Careers in National
Security Law Chicago Marriott Purdue/Wisconsin Room 6th Floor 540 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, IL Click here to listen to podcast |
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ABA Annual Meeting
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July 31, 2009 | Obama's Detainee Policies:
Views from
Inside and Out Hyatt Regency Chicago Columbus Hall CD, Gold Level East Tower 151 East Wacker Drive Chicago, IL Click here to listen to podcast (1:29) |
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June 9, 2009 | Breakfast Program Scars of Intelligence Reform Speaker, Dr. Donald Kerr, former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Click here for podcast (length 43:00 minutes). |
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May 6, 2009 | Breakfast Program with Michael
Leiter,
Director,
National
Counterterrorism Center
Click here for podcast (length 39:53 minutes). |
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March 30, 2009 | Careers in National Security Law, George Washington University
Law School
Click here to read program summary. Click here for podcast (length: 75 minutes). |
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Feb. 26-27, 2009 |
Fourth Annual Homeland Security Institute sponsored by the Section of
Administrative Law and Practice and cosponsored by the Standing Committee
on Law and National Security
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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 for registration information. 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). Privacy introduction http://www.goodmanrutt.com/aba_downloads/ 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 |
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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). |
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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:
Click here to listen to the podcast (running time 73 minutes). 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). |
Past Events
| September 27, 2007 | Breakfast Program, David Kris, former Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice
The Foreign Surveillance Act of 1978 After 9/11/01) |
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Aug. 9-14, 2007 San Francisco, CA |
ABA 2007 Annual Meeting
San Francisco Marriott |
Moderator Harvey Rishikof addresses audience with former Standing Committee chair Dean Elizabeth Parker as panelist. |
August 10, 2007 San Francisco, CA |
San Francisco Marriott Pacific Suite I, 4th Floor |
| July 17, 2007 | Careers in National Security Law Program Listen (running time ~90 minutes) | |
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June 28, 2007 | Breakfast Program Seymour Hersh, Investigative Journalist
"The Role of the Reporter Inside the National Security Apparatus" Click here for invitation and registration form. |
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May 17, 2007 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Moore's Law and Moore's Outlaws Dr. Wendy Hall, Director, Bioterrorism, Weapons of Mass Destruction and Science & Technology Policy, Office of Policy Development, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Listen (running time ~45 minutes) |
| May 10-11, 2007 | Conference on International Networks and Homeland Security - May 10-11, 2007
Keynote Address by the Honorable Christiaan Mark Johan Kroner, Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands to the United States of America delivered Thursday, May 10, 2007 before the ABA Conference on International Networks and Homeland Security. "Counterterrorism Strategies from an International Law and Policy Perspective" Click here to read text. |
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April 25, 2007 |
Breakfast Program: A Discussion of the Rules for Interrogation for CIA and Private Military Contractors Michael Posner, President, Human Rights First Listen (running time ~45 minutes) |
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March 29, 2007 Washington, DC |
Special Program: Responding to the Department of Justice Inspector General's Report on the Use of National Security Letters Moderator: Suzanne Spaulding, Principal, Bingham Consulting Group Read the Department of Justice Inspector General's report on National Security Letters. |
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March 29, 2007 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Joel Brenner National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) and Mission Manager for Counterintelligence
Listen (running time ~45 min.) |
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Jan. 18-Jan. 19 Washington, DC |
Homeland
Security Law Institute Sponsored by the ABA Section on Administrative Law |
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Jan. 3, 2007 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: John Yoo, Professor of Law, University
of California, Berkeley
Listen (running time ~45 min.) |
| Nov. 15, 2006 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Ken Wainstein, Assistant Attorney
General for the National Security Division Ken Wainstein is the first head of the National Security Division at the Department of Justice. This new division brings together the Department of Justice's national security, counterterrorism, counterintelligence and foreign intelligence surveillance operations under a single authority. Listen (running time 30 min.) Read Summary |
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Sep. 29, 2006 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Paul McHale, Assistant Secretary of
Defense for Homeland Defense A former Congressman from the 15th Congressional District of Pennsylvania and Colonel, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, Secretary McHale currently supervises all homeland defense activities of the Department of Defense. Listen (running time <1 hr.) |
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Aug. 7, 2006 Washington, DC |
ABA Annual Meeting: "Liberty" vs. "Security" (Panel
Discussion Before the ABA House of Delegates) Dean Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, University of the Pacific McGeorge Law School; Professor John Yoo, University of California at Berkeley School of Law; and Neal Sonnett, Chair, ABA Task Force on Domestic Surveillance in the Fight Against Terrorism Listen (running time <1 hr.) |
| Jul. 25, 2006 Washington, DC |
The Careers in National Security Panel featured young
lawyers from the Office of the Director, National Counterterrorism
Center; the Office of General Counsel, Department of Defense;
the Legislative and Executive branches, including the Department
of Homeland Security and the military. Sponsored by the Young
National Security Lawyers Group of the ABA Standing Committee
on Law and National Security. Read Report |
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Jun. 22, 2006 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Ben Powell, General Counsel of the
Office of the Director of National Intelligence Transcript | Listen (running time <1 hr.) |
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May 9, 2006 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Hon. Richard Posner, Judge, United
States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Listen (running time <1 hr.) |
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March 10, 2006 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Program: Philip Zelikow,Counselor, Department
of State Transcript |
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February 10, 2006 Chicago, IL |
ABA Midyear Meeting Program: The Perfect Storm: Are the
Roles and Authorities Adequate for Emergency Response?
The panel looked at government legal authority to act in the midst
of the immediate response phase to a disaster. The panel also
explored state, local and first responder issues; federalism and
constitutional challenges; and military involvement and private
sector integration. It was cosponsored by the sections of Administrative
Law and Regulatory Practice and of State and Local Government
Law, the Young Lawyers Division and the Law Student Division. Discussants: Ernest Abbott, FEMA Law Associates and former Counsel, Federal Emergency Management Association; Jessica Herrera-Flanigan, Minority Staff Director and Chief Counsel, House Committee on Homeland Security ; John A. McCarthy, Director, Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, George Mason University School of Law; Lee M. Zeichner, Zeichner Risk Analytics and former Counsel, White House Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection Read Report | Listen (running time 2 hrs.) |
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April 14, 2005 Washington, DC |
Breakfast Keynote Speaker: Laurence Silberman,Co-chairman
of the Iraq Intelligence Commission Listen (running time <1 hr.) |
