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Constitution Day Panel - "Defining Human Rights: What Role Does International Law Play in Our Constitutional System?"

For Immediate Release
September 11, 2009

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WHAT:	Constitution Day Panel - "Defining Human Rights: What Role Does International Law Play in our Constitutional System?"
WHO:	John Bellinger, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP and former Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State David P. Stewart, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law Center and former Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law, U.S. Department of State Patricia Wald, former Chief Judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and former Judge on the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (Moderator)
WHEN:	Thursday, September 17, 2009, 9:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
WHERE:	Georgetown University Law Center McDonough Hall - Hart Auditorium 600 New Jersey Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20001
NOTE:	This Constitution Day event is sponsored by the Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law, The American Society of International Law, and The Constitution Project. Prior to the panel discussion, The Constitution Project's 2009 Constitutional Commentary Award will be presented to Michael Kirk for his production of Frontline's "Bush's War" by 2007 honoree and Pulitzer Prize winner Charlie Savage of the New York Times. A Webcast will be available at http://www.law.georgetown.edu/webcast/. Media interested in attending should e-mail mediarelations@law.georgetown.edu.