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View the full archive of Washington College of Law at AU Domestic Violence in Indian Country A panel of law professors, policy makers, and NGO advocates will examine how conflicts between federal and tribal jurisdiction can lead to a lack of prosecution and enforcement of domestic violence cases in Native American communities. In addition, panelists will identify the various policy mechanisms that have been developed to address this problem, and explore the ways in which Native women's organizations have used these mechanisms to help end violence against women in their communities. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Welcome and Introduction / Keynote Speech Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law Robynn K. Sturm, Assistant Deputy Chief Technology Officer and Deputy Director, White House Open Government Initiative Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel One: Freedom of Information Act Policy - a review of governmentwide implementation of the Holder FOIA Memorandum. Lucy A. Dalglish, Executive Director, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press; Thomas J. Fitton, President, Judicial Watch; Richard L. Huff, Director, American Society of Access Professionals, and former Director, Office of Information and Privacy, Department of Justice; David Sobel, Senior Counsel and Director, FOIA Litigation for Accountable Government Project, Electronic Frontier Foundation; and Thomas M. Susman, Director of Governmental Affairs, American Bar Association (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel Two: The New Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) - an inside look at OGISs start-up operations and its plans for 2010. Rick Blum, Coordinator, Sunshine in Government Initiative; Lydia Kay Griggsby, Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy; Patrice McDermott, Director, OpenTheGovernment.org.; Miriam McIntire Nisbet, Director, Office of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Luncheon Presentation Michael Isikoff, Investigative Correspondent, Newsweek, and contributor to MSNBC Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel Three: The New Executive Order on National Security - a discussion of new Exec. Order No. 13,526, with focus on both classification and declassification. Meredith Fuchs, General Counsel, National Security Archive; Regina A. Genton, Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Policy, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; William H. Leary, Senior Director, National Security Council; J. William Leonard, former Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration; and Steven Aftergood, Executive Director, Project on Government Secrecy, Federation of American Scientists (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Transparency in the Obama Administration - A First-Year Assessment - Panel Four: The Open Government Directive - an analysis of this long-awaited keystone of Obama Administration transparency policy with attn to the breadth of its related tech initiatives Clint Hendler, Staff Writer, Columbia Journalism Review; Alexander T. Hunt, Chief, Information Policy Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; Sean Moulton, Director, Federal Information Policy, OMB Watch; Burt Wides, former Senior Counsel to Senate Judiciary Committee, Chief Counsel to House Judiciary Committee, and Special Counsel to President Jimmy Carter; and Gary D. Bass, Founder and Executive Director, OMB Watch (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Demystifying the Journals Law journal information session Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Lawyers Fiddle While the Constitution Burns Guest speakers Ralph Nader, the famed consumer activist and environmentalist, and Bruce Fein, a prominent conservative constitutional lawyer, team up to call the legal profession to account for ignoring a "chronic multi-faceted Constitutional crisis in America." What should law schools, lawyers, and the institutions of government be doing about systematic disregard for constitutional values and norms? Their provocative critique is sure to kick off a fascinating discussion. Moderated by Prof ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Welcome and Introduction / Congressman Jerrold Nadler, Chairman, House Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel One: Background of the Privilege -- a foundation discussion of the state secrets privileges origin, its development, and its current status in the courts Robert M. Chesney, Charles I. Francis Professor of Law, University of Texas; Laura K. Donohue, Associate Professor, Georgetown Law, and affiliated faculty member, Georgetown Law's Center on National Security and the Law; Douglas N. Letter, Terrorism Litigation Counsel, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice; and Amanda Frost, Professor, Washington College of Law (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel Two: Obama Administration Policy and Practice -- a critical examination of the Obama Administrations emerging positions on the privilege and how they differ from positions advanced in litigation during the B Sharon Bradford Franklin, Senior Counsel, The Constitution Project; Donald B. Verrilli, Jr., Associate Deputy Attorney General, Department of Justice; Benjamin E. Wizner, Counsel, National Security Project, American Civil Liberties Union; and Daniel Marcus, Faculty Fellow in Law and Government, Washington College of Law, and former Associate Attorney General (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Luncheon Louis Fisher, Specialist in Constitutional Law, Library of Congress, and author of The Politics of Executive Privilege (Carolina Academic Press 2004) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel Three: Legislative Perspective -- an up-to-date view from Capitol Hill of the prospects for state secrets privilege reform by Congress Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight; Sean Moulton, Director of Information Policy, OMB Watch; Heather C. Sawyer, Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The State of the State Secrets Privilege: Panel Four: Idealized View of the Privilege -- a wide-ranging assessment of what, all things considered, the nature and scope of the privilege ought to be Elizabeth Goitein, Director, Liberty and National Security Project, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law; Kenneth Gude, Associate Director, Center for American Progress; Carl J. Nichols, former Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General, Department of Justice (Bush Administration); Kent Roach, Prichard-­??Wilson Chair of Law and Public Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto; and Stephen I. Vladeck, Professor, Washington College of Law (moderator) Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Is Customary International Law US Law A debate between Profs. David Moore (BYU) and Stephen Vladeck (WCL). Moderated by Prof. David Snyder. Debaters: Professor David Moore, BYU Law, has published numerous works on international law and the legal aspects of American foreign relations and has taught a number of courses on these subjects. He has twice clerked for Justice Alito and was clerking for him when the Supreme Court issued its Medellin v. Texas, 128 S.Ct. 1346 (2008) decision, which bears on the topic of the debate. Prof ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Juvenile Sentencing: Life without Parole - Cruel & Unusual or Necessary & Appropriate? The Criminal Law Society and Criminal Law Brief are hosting a panel on the issue of juveniles receiving life without parole sentences for non-homicide crimes. On Nov. 9, the Supreme Court will hear, separately, two cases on this issue. Those cases, Graham v. Florida and Sullivan v. Florida both involve juveniles who are serving life without parole for crimes that did not result in a homicide. Many organizations filed amicus briefs on both sides and this panel will include represented from s ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Gender and Climate Change International Week: Gender and Climate Change Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Patent Information Session: Exam Tips and Career Strategies OCPD and the Intellectual Property Society invite students interested in a patent law career to attend this information session featuring Attorney John White on Monday, October 5 from 4:30 - 5:30 in room 401. Mr. White is a patent lawyer and has prepared applicants for the Patent Bar Exam since 1988. He is the Director of Patent Professional Development at the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and will discuss tips for the job search, passing the exam, and practice. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Crisis in Guinea: Human Rights and Accountability The Center is hosting a dynamic panel discussion to address the recent surge of violence in Guinea. The panel will feature experts from Human Rights Watch, and the New York Times bureau chief for West Africa is scheduled to patch in via phone. In addition, a WCL alumnus who now heads a NGO in Guinea is slated to join the panel via telephone. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website