November 14/Cleveland+Web: Judicial Use of Fear in Terrorism Cases #MCLE

Avidan Y. Cover

Professor Cover will examine the social science on how fear affects peoples’ thinking and their own threat assessments. He will review in detail how the perception and understanding of catastrophic threats impact judges’ thinking and opinions, with a case study of the United States Supreme Court opinion, Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project, which upheld a federal law criminalizing material support to foreign terrorist organizations, including the teaching of humanitarian and international law. The presentation will provide lawyers with greater insights into how people, and particularly judges, perceive risks and fears. Such information will enable lawyers to hone their arguments to take into account these perceptions and either accentuate or mitigate the perceived risks as their cases may require.
Title:
Judicial Use of Fear in Terrorism Cases
When/Where:
November 14, 2012
8:30 AM - 9:30 AM Eastern
The City Club of Cleveland
850 Euclid Ave., 2nd floor
Cleveland, Ohio 44114
Also available as webcast
Seating is limited. Preregistration required!
Speaker:
Avidan Y. Cover is Assistant Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he teaches in the Civil Litigation Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center. Professor Cover supervises students in the representation of clients in civil lawsuits primarily in the areas of consumer protection, home repair, predatory lending, tort defense, and housing. Professor Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX News, and Court TV.
Prior to his appointment at Case Western, Professor Cover taught at the Seton Hall University School of Law, where he supervised the Urban Revitalization Project in Newark, New Jersey. In addition, he was a Gibbons Public Interest and Constitutional Law Fellow from 2007 to 2009 during which time he litigated prisoner’s rights, same-sex marriage, national security and education cases in federal and state court. Professor Cover also served as Senior Counsel in Human Rights First’s Law and Security Program where he researched and analyzed U.S. military and intelligence agencies’ interrogation and detention policies and practices.

By:
Case Downtown Lecture Series
Case Western Reserve School of Law
Credit:
1 hr. of CLE credit available, pending approvalMore:
http://law.case.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=311