Sponsored by The George Washington University Law School and the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology INSCT Director William C. Banks will serve as a discussion leader for the panel "Issues to Watch in Criminal Procedure, Electronic Surveillance, and National Security." June 12-13, 2008, Washington, D.C. Click here for details on the conference National Security Law Junior Faculty Workshop Co-sponsored by Wake-Forest University College of Law, the Judge Advocate General (JAG) School, INSCT, The Center on Law, Ethics and National Security (Duke University), and The Center for National Security Law (University of Virginia). May 23, 2008, Winston-Salem, NC
Workshop for military and civilian junior faculty working in the area of national security law (broadly understood to include the full range of constitutional, statutory, and international law concepts implicated by national security issues). Our aim is to provide an informal setting for participants to present and discuss works‐in‐progress, for civilian and JAG faculty to get to know one another, and for civilian faculty to receive instruction from JAG faculty concerning current issues in the law of war.
Click here for details on the workshop Third Annual Conference on Terrorism and Global Security Sponsored by Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group/RAND Corporation. INSCT is a proud co-sponsor and contributor to this event. INSCT Director, William C. Banks spoke on the topic of privacy and legal issues in domestic intelligence. May 8-9, 2008, Santa Monica, California. Click here for details. Rule of Law in an Age of Terrorism Congressman Ron Klein and Professor David Crane Co-sponsored with Hillel Room 175 SU College of Law Friday, April 4, 1 - 2:30 p.m. Click here to view the event poster Public Diplomacy in the Middle East. A U.S. Policy Perspective Walter T. Douglas, Director, Office of Press & Public Diplomacy Near East Affairs Bureau, U.S. Department of State Presented by the Association of Public Diplomacy Friday, April 4, 2:30 to 4:00 Eggers Hall 220 INSCT/SATSA Meet & Greet Thursday, March 6, 2008 Noon, 401 MacNaughton Hall Special guest, Jack Tomarchio, Deputy Under Secretary for Operations, U.S. Department of Homeland Security Lunch will be provided Click here to view Mr. Tomarchio's bio Outsourcing Sovereignty: Why Privatization of Government Functions Threatens Democracy and What We Can Do about It Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University Global Collaboratory, 060 Eggers Hall Thursday, February 28, 12-1:30 p.m. Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bruce Hoffman author of Inside Terrorism Public Events Room, 220 Eggers Hall Saturday, February 23, 9am - 3pm
The Forgotten War: Engagement and Disengagement in Afghanistan Panel Guests: Major Robert Barnsby, Captain Ronald Alcala, Captain Jason Ballard, 10th Mountain Division Room 204, S.U. College of Law Thursday, January 31, 11:30am-12:50pm Click here for background information and guest bios
INSCT Director, Professor William Banks was a Distinguished Speaker in a symposium titled: "War on Terrorism in Africa and Examining the U.S. Africa Command" on Nov 15 at S.U.'s Schine Student Center. This event was co-sponsored by the African Students Union, Muslim Students Association, Africa Initiative, Maxwell Africa Caucus, and the Student African American Society. "A Tour of Duty as a Soldier and a Lawyer" On Nov 14, Col. David Everett (S.U. College of Law '76) gave a talk on his service in Iraq while assigned to the Civilian Police Assistance Training Team, Multi-National Security Transition Command - Iraq, as the primary Coalition Forces advisor to Iraq’s Deputy Minister of Interior for Internal Affairs.
"Counterintelligence: Setting the Parameters for National Security." Professor William Banks gave the keynote address at the Counterintelligence and Cyber Threat Symposium on Oct. 19, 2007 hosted by the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive in Washington D.C. "Overcoming Extremism: Protecting Civilians from Terrorist Violence." Professor William Banks participated in a two-day conference in Washington, D.C. hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies on Oct. 22-23, 2007. Click title for more information on the conference. A video of his panel discussion on State and International Legal Responses is available as well. To view the panel click here.
"The Iraq War and the Breakdown of the American System"
"Washington Post reporter breaks down Iraq War" by Melanie Hicken
Photos: Katie Dalrymple Challenges in the Struggle Against Violent Extremism: Winning the War of Ideas March 29-30, 2006 Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University
On March 29-30, 2006, the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy, the National Security Studies Program, and the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs presented the 2006 Bantle-INSCT Symposium, "Challenges in the Struggle Against Violent Extremism: Winning the War of Ideas." Keynote speakers included Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Raymond DuBois, Senior Advisor for defense management reform and policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and recent former Acting Under Secretary of Defense; and Dr. Matthew Levitt, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Intelligence and Analysis at the Department of Treasury.
Three panels addressed the capabilities and motivations of terrorists and violent extremists in the information age; technical, legal, and policy challenges to developing effective counter measures and counter-countermeasures in asymmetric warfare; and obstacles to and effective means of winning the war of ideas through public diplomacy.
Speakers included Nasra Hassan, Director of the United Nations Information Service and Spokesperson for the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime; Col. (Res. Adv.) Lior Lotan, Executive Director of the Institute for Counterterrorism; General Montgomery Meigs (U.S. Army Ret.), Director of the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Task Force; Dr. Richard Games, Chief Engineer for the MITRE Corporation's Center for Integrated Intelligence Systems; K.A. Taipale, Executive Director of the Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy; Harold Pachios, member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Commission on Public Diplomacy; and Col. F. William Smullen, III (U.S. Army ret.), Director of the National Security Studies program and member of the U.S. Department of State Advisory Committee on Cultural Diplomacy.
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