MEDIA ADVISORY

Samuel Dash

SCHEDULE:

10:15 a.m.  Welcome
T. Alexander Aleinikoff
Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.  Panel One:  Cruelty and Coercion: Interrogating Interrogations in the War on Terror
Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks (Chair)
Professor of Law, University of Virginia

Scott Horton
Partner, Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
Former President, International League for Human Rights

Jane Mayer
New Yorker Magazine

Ronald Rotunda
Professor, George Mason University School of Law                                   
Former Special Counsel, Department of Defense            

Elisa Massimino
Washington Director, Human Rights First

2:00 - 3:30 p.m.  Panel Two:  Domestic Surveillance in Wartime
Martin Lederman (Chair)
Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Former Attorney Adviser, Office of Legal Counsel,
U.S. Department of Justice

David D. Cole
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Orin S. Kerr
Associate Professor of Law, George Washington University Law School

Suzanne Spaulding
Principal, Bingham Consulting Group
Former Assistant General Counsel, Central Intelligence Agency
Former Minority Staff Director, U.S. House of Representatives
Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Former Deputy Staff Director and General Counsel, U.S. Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence

3:45 - 5:15 p.m.  Panel Three:  The Law of War in the War on Terror
L. Michael Seidman (Chair)
Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Avril D. Haines
Attorney Adviser for Political Military Affairs
U.S. Department of State

Sean M. Watts
Associate Professor, International Law Department
U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s School

Paul W. Kahn
Robert W. Winner Professor of Law and the Humanities
Director, Schell Center for International Human Rights
Yale University

The annual Samuel Dash Conference on Human Rights was established by Samuel Dash’s family and friends, Georgetown Law alumni, and the law firm of Cozen O’Connor to honor Dash’s contributions to international human rights and domestic civil rights.

Dash, who joined the Georgetown Law faculty in 1965, and was on the board of the International League of Human Rights, traversed the globe in pursuit of justice.  He led a human rights mission to Northern Ireland to investigate the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” incident, and traveled to the Soviet Union and Chile.  In 1985 he was the first American to visit Nelson Mandela in prison and became involved in mediation efforts that eventually led to Mandela's release.

Dash also served as chief counsel of the Senate Watergate Committee’s investigation into the Nixon administration’s involvement in the Democratic National Committee break-in, which ultimately led to President Nixon’s resignation.

Dash died in 2004.

Media interested in attending should contact Kara Tershel at kat5@law.georgetown.edu.