Conference Program

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Thursday, April 10th

Registration and Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)
8:00 am

Opening Comments
8:30 am

Scott L. Silliman
Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University

Panel I: Using Private Military Contractors: Issues of Accountability

8:45 am

Christopher H. Schroeder, Chair
Charles S. Murphy Professor of Law and Public Policy Studies, Duke University
Deborah Pearlstein
Visiting Scholar, Princeton University and Past Director, Law and National Security Program at Human Rights First
Scott Horton
Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School
Stephen Hedger
Legislative Assistant, Office of Senator Claire McCaskill (D MO)
Nadia Naviwala
Legislative Aide, Office of Senator Jim Webb (D VA)

Panel II: FISA Reform

10:45 am

Robert M. Chesney, Chair
Associate Professor of Law, Wake Forest University School of Law
Lisa Graves
Deputy Director, Center for National Security Studies
Suzanne Spaulding
Principal, Bingham Consulting Group
The Honorable Benjamin A. Powell
General Counsel, Office of the Director of National Intelligence
James Baker
Counsel for Intelligence Policy, National Security Division, Justice Department (2001-2007); Resident Fellow, Institute for Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (2007)

Luncheon: “Shaping our Foreign Policy for the Continuing War on Terrorism”

12:45 pm

Bruce W. Jentleson
Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
Peter D. Feaver
Alexander E. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, Duke University

Panel III: The War on Terrorism: Role of the International Community

2:15 pm

A. Mark Weisburd, Chair
Martha M. Brandis Professor of Law, University of North Carolina School of Law
Amos N. Guiora
Professor of Law, S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
Ron Atkey PC, QC
Counsel on Security Intelligence, UWO Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto, Canada; Amicus Curiae to the Arar Commission; and first Chair of the Security Intelligence Review Committee (Canada)
The Honorable Nicholas Rostow
University Counsel and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, The State University of New York; former Senior Policy Adviser to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations
David Bickford
Former Legal Director, MI 5/MI 6

Reception & Dinner: “Iraq: Acknowledging Past Errors and Future Challenges”

6:30 pm

His Excellency Samir Sumaida'ie
Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq to the United States

Friday, April 11th

Continental Breakfast (Geneen Auditorium)
7:45 am

Panel IV: Prosecuting Terrorism Cases in our Federal Courts

8:45 am

Sara Sun Beale, Chair
Charles L. B. Lowndes Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law
Norman Abrams
Professor of Law Emeritus, UCLA School of Law
Michael E. Tigar
Visiting Professor, Duke University School of Law
Karl Metzner
Deputy Chief, Criminal Division, Office of the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York
The Honorable David B. Sentelle
Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia

Panel V: Extraordinary Rendition

10:45 am

Professor Scott L. Silliman, Chair
Professor of the Practice of Law and Executive Director, Center on Law, Ethics and National Security, Duke University
John Radsan
Associate Professor of Law, William Mitchell College of Law
Aziz Huq
Deputy Director, Justice Program, Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law
Michael F. Scheuer
Adjunct Professor of Security Studies, Center for Peace and Security Studies, Georgetown University
Mark Mazzetti
Correspondent, The New York Times

Luncheon: “Domestic Security Considerations for 2009 and Beyond”