At Unlv/ Gitmo Theach-in Oct 5t,2006

October 2, 2006 / by mokhtar

UNLV William S. Boyd School of law

 

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

 

Boyd Law Classrooms 101 & 105

More than 300 law schools, universities, colleges, and seminaries join journalists, doctors, lawyers, clergy, military officers, and released detainees to formulate responses to what is happening down in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba

 

Session One: Guantanamo: A Primer 07:00 - 07:45

Session Two: Journalists Look Behind the Wire 07:45 - 09:00

Habeas Interlude: Force Feeding 09:00 - 09:15

Session Three: Concurrent Sessions 09:15 - 10:30

 

A. The ACLU's Detention Docket

B. First, Do No Harm: Medical Professionals and Guantánamo

 

Habeas Interlude: Insults to Religion 10:30 - 10:45

Session Four: Matters of Faith: Guantánamo and Religious Communities 10:45 - 11:45

Habeas Interlude: The Gitmo Suicides 11:45 - 12:00

Session Five: Concurrent Sessions 12:00 - 01:15

 

A. History of Torture in the Modern World

B. American Detention Policy: The Next Frontier

 

Habeas Interlude: Military in Civil Society 01:15 – 01:30

Session Six: The Military and the Commander in Chief 01:30 - 02:45

Habeas Interlude: Voices of Guantánamo 02:45 - 03:00

Simulcast Closing: Guantánamo and American Foreign Relations 03:00 - 04:00

Session Seven: Lawyer Ethics After the 2002 Torture Memos and the 05:00 - 06:00

Military Commissions Act: how do we respond?

 

National Teach-in

Live Simulcast to over 300 Law Schools, Universities, and Colleges

from Seaton Hall Law School, New Jersey

 

Contacts:

Professor of Law, Raquel Aldana

Raquel.aldana@unlv.edu

Kevin Alexander Palmros

3L, Boyd Law Student

Palmrosk@unlv.nevada.edu

On the Web at http://www.GuantanamoTeachIn.com

 

 

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