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2008 News Releases:

 

May, 2008

William Snyder, Visiting Professor in the College of Law, was quoted in a Pittsburgh Tribune-Review story about the corruption trial of a local coroner.

 

April, 2008

William Banks, professor and director of INSCT, was quoted in a New York Times story on a 2003 Justice Department legal memorandum concerning interrogation techniques.

 

March, 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in a Christian Science Monitor story on a decline in methamphetamine use in Montana.

 

Professor William C. Banks was chosen to serve as a lead member of a new national security task force for the Center for Strategic and International Studies and The Heritage Foundation.

 

February, 2008

David M. Crane, LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, contributed the following article to JURIST: Children as Terrorists: Wrong to Train, Wrong to Charge.

 

David M. Crane, LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted in the Calgary Herald in a story on child soldiers.  He also authored an op-ed in the Toronto Star on the same topic.

 

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was interviewed on CBC's "Newsworld" about the Omar Khadr case.

 

January, 2008

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, was quoted by the Canadian Press and Toronto Star about charging children for war crimes and the prosecution of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr.  He was also quoted by Xinhua News on the war crimes trial of former Liberian president Charles Taylor in The Hague.

 

David M. Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, authored an op-ed on Libyan leader Muamar Ghadaffi in Jurist.

 

Kerry Fosher, INSCT Research & Practice Associate, was quoted in the Time article, "Anthropologists on the Front Lines."

 

INSCT faculty and Maxwell Professor Michael Barkun recently published "Terrorism and the ‘Invisible’" in the e-journal Perspectives on Terrorism .

 

Professor Louis Kreisburg recently became a member of the Experts Panel for the report, "55 Trends Now Shaping The Future of Terrorism."  The results of this study will be published as a series of small books in collaboration with the National Intelligence Council.

 

2007 News Releases:

 

December, 2007

Professor William Banks was quoted in an HSR Monitor article titled, "Profiling: A Debate in Counterterrorism" which examines the debate on profiling and discrimination.  Click title to view the article.

 

November 28, 2007

An excerpt of Professor Brian Taylor's monograph, Russia's Power Ministries: Coercion and Commerce was recently included in a Moscow Times article titled, "Unmasking President Putin's Grandiose Myth".

 

November 9, 2007

Professor David Crane recently contributed an article to the International Herald Tribune titled, "The Child as a War Criminal", concerning the recruitment and use of children in armed conflict in Sierra Leone and West Africa.

This article was also translated into Hebrew and can be viewed by clicking here.  

 

October 22/23, 2007

Professor William Banks participated in a two-day conference hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Oct. 22,23 titled "Overcoming Extremism: Protecting Civilians from Terrorist Violence."  Click title for more information on the conference.

 

October 9, 2007

Professor David Crane officially launched Impunity Watch - an online publication dedicated to informing the world about human rights violations.  Read more about the launch and the website in Jurist.

 

October 8/9, 2007

A number of media outlets followed the debate from INSCTs ongoing New Battlefields, Old Laws symposium on October 8th.  Professor William Banks INSCT Director and College of Law Professor was interviewed by Andrea Seabrook for NPR's All Things Considered.   He was also quoted in the Washington Times in "General acted to resolve conflict," interviewed in the Syracuse Post-Standard, by WUSA-TV, 9 News this Morning,  Congressional Quarterly Daily, and CQ Homeland Security.

 

Professor David Crane LAW '80, Professor of Practice in the College of Law, also appeared on the Washington-area program "Federal News Now" to discuss the project

 

October 8, 2007

William Banks has been interviewed regularly as part of the national debate over FISA legislation.  He was interviewed on Bloomberg Radio, KCBS radio (San Francisco) and quoted here in the New York Times, Democrats Seem Ready to Extend Wiretap Powers.  He also appeared in Joe Klein's TIME blog.

 

June 1, 2007

Professor Banks' article "The Death of FISA" was recently published in the Minnesota Law Review, Volume 91, Issue 5. 

 

January 28, 2007

Professor Banks was quoted in a syndicated Los Angeles Times Story on the trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

 

January 27, 2007

Professor David Crane was quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on transnational justice

 

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