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Inauguration of the Center on National Security and the Law ruler
For Immediate Release
April 7, 2008

Media Contact:
Kara Tershel, (202) 662-9500

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT:

Inauguration of the Center on National Security and the Law

WHEN:

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 9:15 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.

WHERE:

All events except lunch and the investiture will be at:
Georgetown University Law Center
Gewirz Student Center – 12th Floor
120 F Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

Lunch will be held at:
Georgetown University Law Center
Sport & Fitness Center
550 First Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Please use the Tower Green entrance.

The investiture will be held at:
Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall – Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001
Please use the F Street entrance.

SCHEDULE:

9:15 a.m.
Welcome

T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Dean, Georgetown University Law Center

9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
A Conversation Regarding the Role of the Justice Department in the War on Terror

Neal Katyal, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Jack Goldsmith, Henry L. Shattuck Professor, Harvard Law School, and former Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, U.S. Department of Justice
Jamie Gorelick, Partner, WilmerHale, and former Deputy Attorney General of the United States

10:35 – 11:45 a.m.
Panel: Toward a New International Law for 21st Century Conflicts
Matthew Gerke, Fellow, Center on National Security and the Law, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
John B. Bellinger III, Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State
David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Deborah Pearlstein, Visiting Scholar, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs
Gary Solis, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, and former Professor, United States Military Academy
Matthew Waxman, Associate Professor, Columbia Law School

12:00 – 1:30 p.m.
Luncheon Address

Alberto J. Mora, Vice President and General Counsel, International Department, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and former General Counsel, U.S. Department of the Navy

1:45 – 3:15 p.m.
Panel: National Security Law Challenges for the New Administration

Justin Florence, Fellow, Center on National Security and the Law (Moderator)
Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Marcia Cooke, U.S. District Judge, Southern District of Florida
Jeffrey Rosen, Professor, George Washington University Law School, and Legal Editor, The New Republic
Kenneth Wainstein, Assistant Attorney General for National Security, U.S. Department of Justice

4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
Investiture and Inaugural Lecture
"The Principled War on Terror"
Neal Katyal, Paul and Patricia Saunders Professor of National Security Law, Georgetown University Law Center

NOTE:

A Web cast will be available at https://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.


Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.