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Event: Harvard–West Point Conference on Race and Intersectional Critiques of National Security Law

Matthew Kahn
Tuesday, February 23, 2021, 10:51 AM

Join the Harvard–West Point conference on race and national security law, March 1-5.

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The Harvard National Security Journal and the Lieber Institute for Law and Land Warfare at West Point will host an online conference on March 1-5 on Race and Intersectional Critiques of National Security Law. More details on each day’s event are below. Register here for access to the Zoom links for the conference.

Monday, March 1 at 12:00 noon Eastern

Panel: Gender, World Peace, Armed Conflict, and UNSCR 1325: Where Were We, Where Are We, and Where Do We Go From Here?

  • Professor Eric Jensen (moderator), Professor of Law, Brigham Young University Law School
  • Professor Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Regents Professor and Robina Professor of Law, Public Policy, and Society, University of Minnesota Law School
  • Elizabeth Griffiths, Postgraduate Student, Queen's University, Belfast, Northern Ireland
  • Dr. Natalia F. Hudson, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of the Human Rights Studies Program, University of Dayton
  • Maj. Heather Tregle, U.S. Army JAG Corps, Professor of Law, U.S. Naval War College
  • Capt. Sara Jarman, U.S. Army JAG Corps

Tuesday, March 2 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern

Remarks: Watching Immigrants

  • Professor Alvaro Bedoya, Founding Director of the Center on Privacy & Technology, Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

Wednesday, March 3 at 12:00 noon Eastern

Remarks: Race and the Reimagining of National Security Law

  • Professor Shirin Sinnar, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Thursday, March 4 at 12:00 noon Eastern

Remarks: Race, National Security, and Immigration Law: A Historical Perspective

  • Professor Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and I. Herman Stern Research Professor, Temple Law School

Friday, March 5 at 12:30 p.m. Eastern

Remarks: An Address on Race and International Law

  • Professor Asli Ü. Bâli, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights, UCLA Law School

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Matthew Kahn is a third-year law student at Harvard Law School and a contributor at Lawfare. Prior to law school, he worked for two years as an associate editor of Lawfare and as a junior researcher at the Brookings Institution. He graduated from Georgetown University in 2017.

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