Fordham Panel to Scrutinize Government Spying

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Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who Edward Snowden turned to when he leaked documents about the National Security Agency's top-secret surveillance programs, will join a panel of experts on Thursday, Nov. 14 for a discussion at Fordham Law School titled "They're Watching Us: So What?"

For the discussion, which will be held from 7-8:30 p.m. at the McNally Amphitheatre, the Center on National Security has also lined up:

-James Bamford, author of The Shadow Factory: The NSA from 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America (Anchor, 2009);

-Ariel Dorfman, Ph.D., a human-rights activist and the Walter Hines Page Research Professor of Literature and professor of Latin American Studies; Spanish Studies at Duke University;

-Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer, computer security and privacy specialist, and author of Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust that Society Needs to Thrive (Wiley, 2012)

Chief among the issues they will be tasked with addressing is what we know—and don’t yet know—about how surveillance is reshaping our public and private lives. 

The panel will be moderated by Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director of PEN American Center, and will also try to answer questions such as:

What effect is the expansive American surveillance state having on us? 

Are the programs that Snowden revealed inhibiting the way we think, speak, and create, distorting social interactions, damaging individuals or communities? 

The discussion will be live-streamed at http://www.pen.org/event/2013/10/25/theyre-watching-us-so-what

For more information and to RSVP, visit http://centeronnationalsecurity.org/node/835, or e-mail nationalsecurity@law.fordham.edu 

—Patrick Verel

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.