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2006 Minnesota Law Review Symposium

9/11 Five Years On: A Comparative Look at the Global Reponse to Terrorism

October 13, 2006
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
University of Minnesota Law School
Lockhart Hall (Room 25)

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8:30-8:45 Welcome Address
8:45-9:10

Introduction

  • Tom Newcomb, Tiffin University
9:10-9:20 Break
9:20-10:50

Panel: The Executive Branch and Secrecy

  • Transparency as Structural Directive: A Look at the NSA Spying Controversies
    Heidi Kitrosser, University of Minnesota Law School
  • The Death of FISA
    William Banks, Syracuse University College of Law
  • Al-Qaeda's Administrative Law
    Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, Stanford Law School
10:50-11:00 Break
11:00-12:20

Panel: The Preventative Paradigm

  • National Security After 9/11 and Immigration Reform: A North American Perspective
    Bernard Trujillo, University of Wisconsin School of Law
  • The Preventative Paradigm
    Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh School of Law

Commentator: David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law School

12:20-1:20 Break
1:20-2:50

Panel: The Implications of Hamdan

  • The Political Constitution of Emergency Powers: Some Lessons from Hamdan
    Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
  • The Anti-Authoritarian Constitution
    Pat Gudridge, University of Miami School of Law
  • Hamdan, the Supreme Court and Common Article 3: Did the Supreme Court Get it Right?
    Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, University of Minnesota Law School

Commentator: Oren Gross, University of Minnesota Law School

2:50-3:00 Break
3:00-4:30

Discussion: Emergency Powers and Constitutional Design

  • Sanford Levinson, University of Texas School of Law
  • Mark Tushnet, Harvard Law School
  • Oren Gross, University of Minnesota Law School
4:30 Adjourn

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