Maryland Law Hosts Panel on Civil Liberties in Wartime

Marking its fifth commemoration of September 11th, the School of Law will host the panel discussion "Civil Liberties in Wartime", September 7, 2005 at 12:10pm in Room 107. Panelists include: Mark V. Tushnet, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Constititutional Law, Georgetown Law Center Mark Graber, Professor of Law holding a joint appointment as Professor, Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park Michael Greenberger, Law School Professor and Director, University of Maryland Center for Health and Homeland Security Chandra Sriram, Visiting Associate Professor of Law Professors Tushnet, Graber and Greenberger and contributors to a newly published collection of essays, At War with Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, edited by John Stack and Thomas Baker (Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 2005). Their essays and this panel will explore issues of executive power, the rule of law, and the balance of rights, liberties and threats in the context of the War on Terrorism and the U.S. invasions in Afghanistan and Iraq. Overflow seating available in adjoining rooms. Pizza lunch will be served.