2015 | Law in the Age of "Forever War"

Keynote Speech: NSA and the Future of Surveillance in the Age of Forever War

Presenter Information

Benjamin Wittes

Location

Duke Law School, Room 3041

Start Date

28-2-2015 8:30 AM

End Date

28-2-2015 9:15 AM

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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.

Keynote Speech

Speaker: Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; Editor-in-Chief of the Lawfare blog

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Introduction: Maj. Gen. Charlie Dunlap, USAF (Ret.), LENS Executive Director

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Feb 28th, 8:30 AM Feb 28th, 9:15 AM

Keynote Speech: NSA and the Future of Surveillance 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.

Keynote Speech

Speaker: Benjamin Wittes, Senior Fellow in Governance Studies, The Brookings Institution; Editor-in-Chief of the Lawfare blog