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The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public's Right to Know - Panel 2: The Special Case of National Security
Moderator: Conrad Martin, Executive Director, Fund for Constitutional Government
Panelists: Ann Beeson, Director of U.S. Policy, Open Society Institute; Danielle Brian, Executive Director, Project on Government Oversight; Louis Fisher, Specialist in Constitutional Law, Library of Congress; Mike German, Policy Counsel for National Security, American Civil Liberties Union; Stephen Kohn, Executive Director, National Whistleblower Center.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public's Right to Know - Luncheon AddressIntroduction by Mark Niles, Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, American University Washington College of Law
Introduction of Luncheon Guest Speaker by Jesselyn Radack, Homeland Security Director, GAP
Luncheon Guest Speaker: Babak Pasdar, computer security specialist whose whistleblowing is credited with turning the tide in the House of Representatives against granting immunity to telecommunications companies that enabled secret government surveillance of Americans.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public's Right to Know - Panel 1 - Restoring Openness and Accountability to Government and CorporationsModerator: Professor David Vladeck, Georgetown University Law Center
Panelists: Tom Devine, Legal Director, GAP; David Marshall, Partner, Katz, Marshall & Banks, LLP; Sean Moulton, Director of Federal Information Policy, OMB Watch; Bonnie Robin-Vergeer, Attorney, Public Citizen Litigation Group; Jason Zuckerman, Principal, The Employment Law Group, PC, Washington, DC.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Emerging Era in Whistleblower Rights and the Public's Right to Know - Keynote AddressWelcome Remarks by Mark Cohen, Executive Director, Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Keynote Address: Coleen Rowley, former FBI Special Agent and Minneapolis Chief Division Counsel, and one
of three Time magazine "Persons of the Year" in 2002, who blew the whistle on FBI Headquarters' failure to act on information provided by her Field Office, pre-9/11, about suspected terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Teaching IHL Institute Day - 6.4.08On June 4-5, 2008, American University Washington College of Law Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (WCL) and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) will convene the first Teaching IHL Summer Institute in Washington, D.C. The Institute is targeted for law professors who are interested in teaching an IHL course for the first time, integrating IHL modules into their current courses and/or rethinking their current teaching of this important area.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Washington College of Law 2008 Commencement AddressWashington College of Law 2008 Commencement AddressListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Externship Faculty WorkshopExternship Faculty WorkshopListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelfth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law - The Intersection of Media, Law, & Politics - Welcome Remarks & Panel ConversationIn a unique and remarkable political year, a panel of experts will come together to conduct an inclusive conversation about its meaning and ramifications for the African-American community. Confirmed and invited guests include:
Jim Asendio, News Director, WAMU-88.5 (C)*Midwin Charles, '99, Midwin Charles and Associates & Member of the Dean's Diversity Council (I)*Donna Edwards, Democratic Candidate, Maryland's 4th District (I)*Joe Johns, '02, Correspondent, CNN*Craig Thompson, Thompson Com ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Twelfth Annual Sylvania Woods Conference on African Americans and the Law - The Intersection of Media, Law, & Politics - Awards DinnerThe dinner program recognizes those who have done good and done well through respective presentation of the Rising Star Award, the Hairston Award, and the North Star Award to a graduating student, a member of the alumni, and a professional.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of LawVideo-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhDListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of LawVideo-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhDListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of LawVideo-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhDListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of LawVideo-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhDListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Colombia - The Human Impact of Trade, War and the Rule of LawVideo-Conference with the Universidad de los Andes Law School - Bogota, Colombia Moderated by Professors Henrik López Sterup, PhD and Pablo Rey Vallejo, PhDListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Summer Law Program in The Hague Pre-Departure LectureSummer Law Program in The Hague Pre-Departure LectureListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Dean's Diversity Council Speaker SeriesThe guest speaker for the spring 2008 series will be the Honorable Ricardo J. Urbina, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The series brings members of the council into the law school to speak on topics they have selected to be of particular interest to the law school community. Judge Urbina is the sixth speaker since the series began in the spring of 2005.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website 9th Annual Peter M. Cicchino AwardsThe Annual Peter M. Cicchino Awards for Outstanding Advocacy in the Public Interest program is held every year in honor of a beloved former Washington College of Law Professor, Peter M. Cicchino, who passed away in 2000. Professor Cicchino was both a brilliant scholar and teacher and a brave and creative public interest lawyer. This program celebrates his outstanding devotion to public interest issues in all aspects of his life, by recognizing students and alumni who have demonstrated a sim ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OCPD Professionalism Series Event: Business Etiquette Crash CourseJoin OCPD on Thursday, April 17 at 12pm in Room 402 for guidance on a range of business etiquette issues, including dining etiquette. Camille Franklin, a trained etiquette presenter and the Director of Career Development at American University's Career Center, will join us for an informative discussion and will answer questions about proper protocol in a business setting. Please register on CareerLink if you are planning to attend this program.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Does Red Lion Still Roar? - Public Interest Media Regulation Forty Years After Red Lion Broadcasting Co. v. FCC - Welcome / Introduction / Opening Keynote AddressOn June 9, 1969, the Supreme Court
in Red Lion v. FCC upheld the Fairness Doctrine
and related regulations, which required broadcasters
to cover controversial issues of local importance,
to provide reasonable opportunities
for contrasting and dissenting viewpoints in doing
so, and to observe rights of reply.
The Administrative Law Review and the
Washington College of Law's Communications
Law Society sponsor this one-day symposium, in
the hopes of advancing general understanding
by elicitin ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Office of Career and Professional Development Workshop - How to Apply for a Judicial ClerkshipOCPD Workshop - How to Apply for a Judicial ClerkshipListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Preparation Program - Maryland Criminal ProcedureBar Preparation Program - Maryland Criminal ProcedureListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Integrated Curriculum Panel - Q & A SessionIntegrated Curriculum Panel - Q & A SessionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Getting a Job for Your 2L Summer - 2008 Fall Recruitment and BeyondGetting a Job for Your 2L Summer - 2008 Fall Recruitment and BeyondListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Office of Career and Professional Development - 3L-4L Job Search Series - Contract LawyeringOffice of Career and Professional Development 3L-4L Job Search Series - Contract LawyeringListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The Ninth Annual National High School Moot Court CompetitionHigh school students from across the country will travel to WCL to compete in this 2-day event. Pairs of students will present 12-minute appellate arguments representing either the petitioner or respondent in a fictitious problem. During the presentation, students will be interrupted by members of a 3-judge panel to clarify legal points and defend their positions. Students will be judged on their knowledge of the facts and relevant law, ability to respond to questions, poise and presentatio ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Public Interest Student Coalition WorkhopPublic Interest Student Coalition WorkhopListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Academic Advising on Intellectual Property CommunicationsAcademic Advising on Intellectual Property CommunicationsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Preparing for Your Law Firm Summer Associate PositionPreparing for Your Law Firm Summer Associate PositionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Engendering Practice / Closing RemarksIP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Engendering Practice / Closing RemarksListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Interrogating TheoryIP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Interrogating TheoryListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - Questioning AssumptionsRebecca Tushnet, Olufunmilayo Arewa, Séverine Dusollier, Dan BurkListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website IP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - IntroductionIP/Gender: Mapping the Connections - IntroductionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Preparation Program - New York Wills Mini ReviewNew York Wills Mini ReviewListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website International Perspectives on Implementation of the New UN Disability Rights ConventionInternational Perspectives on Implementation of the New UN Disability Rights ConventionListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovations in the First Year Curriculum (Part II)This conference will bring together faculty, academic deans, and other leaders from law schools throughout the country to discuss some of the exciting changes in theory and pedagogy related to the first year experience. The panel discussions and short presentations will explore recent developments including integrated and transcurricular teaching, the inclusion of clinical or practice based instruction, reconfiguration of first year legal writing programs, first year electives, and similar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Innovations in the First Year Curriculum (Part I)This conference will bring together faculty, academic deans, and other leaders from law schools throughout the country to discuss some of the exciting changes in theory and pedagogy related to the first year experience. The panel discussions and short presentations will explore recent developments including integrated and transcurricular teaching, the inclusion of clinical or practice based instruction, reconfiguration of first year legal writing programs, first year electives, and similar ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Exploring Alternative Careers: Looking Inside, Outside and Around the LawFounders' Celebration Event: Cheryl Rich Heisler, President and Founder of Lawternatives and author of the upcoming 6th edition, What Can You Do With A Law Degree?, will discuss the broadening employment options for those with legal training, explain how to break the career transition process down into workable segments and offer coaching assistance to attendees on how to identify and begin to explore alternative career opportunities. PLEASE REGISTER FOR THIS EVENT BY VISITING THE EVENTS SE ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Pathways to Employment in International LawThe Office of Career & Professional Development (OCPD) and the American Bar Association Section of International Law will bring together attorneys who advise clients in legal issues involving international matters and international business transactions. During this exciting panel discussion, speakers will advise JD and LL.M. students on how to successfully pursue a career advising international clients. After the panel discussion, students will have the opportunity to meet the panelists an ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Olympian Violence Erupting in TibetOver the past two weeks, Tibet has experienced its worst violence in 20 years. The Chinese crackdown on Tibetan protesters has left hundreds wounded, dead and detained. Sympathetic protests in support of Tibet have spread through China, Nepal, India and beyond. Events continue to develop in the shadow of the upcoming Olympics. Join us for lunch and a discussion of the current crisis with T.Kumar, Advocacy Director for Asia and the Pacific, Amnesty International USA; John Ackerly, President, ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Preparation Program - MD Civil ProcedureBar Preparation Program - MD Civil ProcedureListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Bar Preparation Program - New York CorporationsBar Preparation Program - New York CorporationsListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website The First Richard S. Levick Annual Lecture in Crisis Communication and International Law: The Role of Media in International and Legal ControversiesThe First Richard S. Levick Annual Lecture in Crisis Communication and International Law: The Role of Media in International and Legal ControversiesListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Moises NaimA discussion by
Moisés Naím
Editor in chief, Foreign Policy
on his new book
"Illicit"
Students, Alumni, Faculty, Staff & General Public - no charge
(registration is required)Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Justice Goldstone ProgramDean Claudio Grossman and
American University Washington College of Law
Cordially invite you to the lecture
"Social and Economic Rights: The South African Experience"
by
Richard J. Goldstone
Former Justice, Constitutional Court of South Africa and former Chief Prosecutor of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda
Commentators
Herman Schwartz, Professor, American University Washington
College of Law
Gay McDougall, United Nati ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Asian Pacific Americans DinnerIn a collaboration of WCL's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) and the Asian Pacific American Bar Association of DC (APABA-DC), this event will highlight the continuing need to empower and encourage the participation of the Asian Pacific American community in the legal realm of society, and recognize the important contributions of WCL's Asian Pacific American alumni to the legal profession. WCL's APALSA will host a reception and dinner which recognizes and honors the W ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website OCPD Job Search Workshop Session 3 Long Distance Job Search and HeadhuntersOCPD Job Search Workshop Session 3 Long Distance Job Search and HeadhuntersListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Panel 2Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U.S., Norway, Denmark and Canada -- are poised to claim the region's vast energy resources. One study estimates that a quarter of the world's oil and gas reserves are to be found under the Arctic, as well as significant deposits of other mineral riches. This pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Panel 1Scientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U.S., Norway, Denmark and Canada -- are poised to claim the region's vast energy resources. One study estimates that a quarter of the world's oil and gas reserves are to be found under the Arctic, as well as significant deposits of other mineral riches. This pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website Climate Change Plenary SpeakerScientists are predicting that the entire Arctic Ocean could have an ice-free summer surface by 2050. As climate change causes the Arctic to melt, the several countries with territory inside the Arctic Circle - including Russia, the U.S., Norway, Denmark and Canada -- are poised to claim the region's vast energy resources. One study estimates that a quarter of the world's oil and gas reserves are to be found under the Arctic, as well as significant deposits of other mineral riches. This pro ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | |