Symposium to Focus on Citizenship, Immigration and National Security

Fordham Law’s Center on National Security will host a day-long symposium that will address the complex and shifting nature of citizenship rights in a post 9/11 world.

Experts will tackle topics such as the effects of post 9/11 legal and policy battles on the legal rights of citizens and non-citizens, the tensions between the state’s duty to protect and its desire to protect individual rights and liberties, and whether vigilance about terrorism has weakened the protections associated with citizenship, particularly with respect to ethnic and religious minorities.

Friday, Sept. 20

9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Fordham Law School, McNally Amphitheater, Lincoln Center campus

The symposium will feature four panel discussions: 

Enemy Citizens: Rethinking Rights in Times of War

Baher Azmy, legal director, Center for Constitutional Rights

David Cole, professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center

Thomas Lee, Leitner Family Professor of International Law, Fordham Law School

Peter Margulies, professor of law, Roger Williams University School of Law

Michael Paulsen, Distinguished University Chair and Professor of law, University of St. Thomas School of Law                                       

Moderator: Karen Greenberg, director, Center on National Security at Fordham Law School

U.S. Citizenship and the Right to Have Rights

Linda Bosniak, Distinguished professor of law, Rutgers-Camden School of Law

Jennifer Elsea, legislative attorney, Congressional Research Service

Andrew Kent, professor of law, Fordham Law School

Neomi Rao, associate professor of law, George Mason University School of Law

Moderator: Martin Flaherty, Leitner Family Professor of law, Fordham Law School

Lunch

Speaker: Benjamin Wittes, senior fellow in governance studies, The Brookings Institution

Gaining and Losing Citizenship in the National Security Context

Muneer Ahmad, clinical professor of law, Yale Law School

Ramzi Kassem, associate professor of law, City University of New York Law School

Peter Spiro, Charles Weiner Chair in international law, Temple University Beasley School of Law

Stephen Vladeck, professor law, American University Washington College of Law

Leti Volpp, Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor of Law in Access to Justice, UC Berkeley Law School

Moderator: Joseph Landau, associate professor of law, Fordham Law School

To RSVP, visit http://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org/node/639

—Patrick Verel

Fordham Law's Karen Greenberg on CNN

Karen Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham School of Law, appeared on CNN's Newsroom with Ashleigh Banfield to discuss a top-secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court order, which requires Verizon to turn over records on a daily basis.

The four-page order, published by the UK-based Guardian on its website Wednesday, requires the communications giant to hand over "originating and terminating" telephone numbers as well as the location, time and duration of the calls -- and demands absolute secrecy.

Check out video of Karen Greenberg's appearance on CNN here.

Fordham Explores Moral Issues Surrounding 9/11 Responses

As the 10th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks nears, the debate over methods of preventing future harms while preserving moral integrity has raised complex questions that touch upon issues of rights, redress and common humanity.

Fordham’s Center for Ethics Education and Center on Religion and Culture are co- hosting a conference featuring discussions by a distinguished multidisciplinary group of policy makers, theologians, legal scholars, journalists, moral philosophers and social scientists.

Moral Outrage and Moral Repair: Reflections on 9/11 and Its Afterlife, which seeks to advance public dialogue and moral understandings as the country continues to grapple with these tensions, will take place on Tuesday, April 12, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus.

Panel topics include:

• Religion and Terrorism: Context and Perspective: Foundational themes that will inform historical, psychological, and religious understandings of terrorism and wrongdoing.

• Forgiveness & Moral Repair: Religion & Philosophy: An examination of the themes of forgiveness, reconciliation, justice, and hope in response and reaction to acts of evil and terrorism.

• Responses to Terrorism: Law, Politics, and the Media: Discussion of legal, political, and media responses to terrorism and methods of preventing future harms.

• Continuing the Conversation: Our Post-9/11 Future: A panel including all the speakers, in a format that will allow speakers to challenge, respond to, and debate one another, and include audience questions and comments.

This event is free and open to the public but prior registration is recommended.

Register online at www.fordham.edu/moraloutrage, e-mail ethics@fordham.edu or call (718) 817-0926.

--Gina Vergel