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Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice To Detainees ruler
For Immediate Release
March 6, 2009

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

MEDIA ADVISORY
WHAT:

"Bringing Detainees to Justice and Justice to Detainees: Remaining Questions about Detention and Trials after Obama's Executive Orders"
WHEN:

Friday, March 20, 2009, 12:00 - 1:30 p.m.
WHERE:

Georgetown University Law Center

McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C.  20001

WHO:

David Laufman, Partner, Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP and former Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia

Deborah Pearlstein, Associate Research Scholar in Law and Public Affairs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs, Princeton University

Gabor Rona, International Legal Director, Human Rights First

Matt Waxman, Professor, Columbia Law School and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs

MODERATOR:

Stephen Vladeck, Professor, American University Washington College of Law
NOTE:

The panelists will explore the legal and constitutional issues raised by President Obama's executive orders on detention and Guantanamo, including potential proposals for the establishment of a national security court and a preventive detention regime.

This event is sponsored by the Georgetown Law Center on National Security and the Law, The Constitution Project and Human Rights First.

A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/.

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