This conference, hosted in partnership with the Magna Carta Institute, will focus on courts, national security, and how transatlantic counterparts handle alleged terrorism suspects through the criminal justice system. Participants will consider lessons learned before and after 9/11 regarding matters of detention, evidentiary standards, and trial procedure in terrorism cases; the differences among countries; the…

SPEAKER BIOS Michael Sheehan is a Distinguished Fellow at the Center on Law and Security, security consultant, and author of the recently published Crush the Cell (Crown, 2008). He has had a distinguished and uniquely varied career in public service for over 30 years. He is best known for his work in counterterrorism, peacekeeping and laws…

SPEAKER BIOS Peter Bergen is a Schwartz senior fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington D.C; an Adjunct Professor at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University; a research fellow at New York University’s Center on Law and Security; CNN’s terrorism analyst and author of Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden. (Free…

Peter Ahearn served two years as a Senior Advisor with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), following a twenty-nine year career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation.  In this role, he was responsible for assisting the ODNI in the area of National Intelligence integration, Human Intelligence policy, providing guidance on Homeland Security, National…

Award-winning author Christopher Dickey, whose most recent book Securing the City will be published in February 2009, is the Paris Bureau Chief and Middle East Regional Editor for Newsweek Magazine. Previously he worked for The Washington Post as Cairo Bureau Chief and Central America Bureau Chief. Chris’s Shadowland column, about counter-terrorism, espionage and the Middle…

Senator Bob Graham is the former two–term governor of Florida and served for 18 years in the United States Senate. This is combined with 12 years in the Florida legislature for a total of 38 years of public service. As Governor and Senator, Bob Graham was a centrist, committed to bringing his colleagues together behind programs…

An Open Forum hosted by the Center on Law and Security and Harper’s Magazine On publication of contributing editor Scott Horton’s report, Justice After Bush, in the December issue of Harper’s Magazine, a panel of legal experts will discuss methods available to the government with reckoning with a legacy of human rights abuses. Featured Speakers:…

A conversation with Gilles Kepel, Professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques and author of Beyond Terror and Martyrdom: The Future of the Middle East. Moderated by Stephen Holmes, Meyer Professor of Law, NYU School of Law. SPEAKER BIOS Gilles Kepel is head of the post-graduate programme on the Arab and Muslim worlds at the Institut…