2015 | Law in the Age of "Forever War"
Do We Need a New AUMF in the Age of Forever War?
Location
Duke Law School, Room 3041
Start Date
27-2-2015 2:45 PM
End Date
27-2-2015 4:15 PM
Description
The 2015 LENS Conference, Law in the Age of 'Forever War', focuses on the legal issues that accompany warfare in a time when technology, relationships between nations, and the abilities of non-state actors to affect the international stage, are all changing rapidly. Speakers address some of the difficult issues that have come to define modern law as it relates to warfare: targeting, surveillance, home-grown terrorism, intelligence gathering in the digital age, ensuring human rights and civil liberties.
Moderator: Professor Robert M. Chesney, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Charles I. Francis Professor in Law and Director-Designate of the Robert S Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Martin Lederman, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Andrea J. Prasow, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch
Professor Stephen Vladeck, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law
Do We Need a New AUMF in the Age of Forever War?
Duke Law School, Room 3041
The 2015 LENS Conference, Law in the Age of 'Forever War', focuses on the legal issues that accompany warfare in a time when technology, relationships between nations, and the abilities of non-state actors to affect the international stage, are all changing rapidly. Speakers address some of the difficult issues that have come to define modern law as it relates to warfare: targeting, surveillance, home-grown terrorism, intelligence gathering in the digital age, ensuring human rights and civil liberties.
Moderator: Professor Robert M. Chesney, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Charles I. Francis Professor in Law and Director-Designate of the Robert S Strauss Center for International Security and Law, University of Texas at Austin
Professor Martin Lederman, Associate Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Andrea J. Prasow, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch
Professor Stephen Vladeck, Professor of Law, American University Washington College of Law