Material Support Event @ AU-WCL -- Thursday
For our D.C.-area readers, AU's student-run National Security Law Brief is hosting its annual symposium this Thursday here at the Washington College of Law.
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For our D.C.-area readers, AU's student-run National Security Law Brief is hosting its annual symposium this Thursday here at the Washington College of Law. This year's event will focus on the current and future issues arising out of "material support" prosecutions, including the continuing implications of the Humanitarian Law Project decision with respect to free speech and humanitarian aid issues, the Hamdan question (i.e., whether material support is a war crime that can be tried by a military commission), and related topics...
David Cole from Georgetown will deliver the lunchtime keynote address, followed by a panel discussion featuring Jen Daskal (Georgetown), Dan Marcus (WCL), me, and a potential government speaker TBA. The flyer is here; more details are here.
Steve Vladeck is a professor of law at the University of Texas School of Law. A 2004 graduate of Yale Law School, Steve clerked for Judge Marsha Berzon on the Ninth Circuit and Judge Rosemary Barkett on the Eleventh Circuit. In addition to serving as a senior editor of the Journal of National Security Law & Policy, Steve is also the co-editor of Aspen Publishers’ leading National Security Law and Counterterrorism Law casebooks.
