October 17: Cleveland + Webcast - Eroding the Foundations of International #Humanitarian #Law: The United States Post-9/11 #MCLE

Colonel (retired) Morris Davis

The Chief Prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba resigned in October 2007, disputing that evidence obtained through waterboarding should be admitted in the commission. He has opposed force-feeding to halt the Guantanamo detainees’ mass hunger strike, and in May 2013 publicly led the call for President Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay Detention Center. His online petition to close Guantanamo topped 75,000 signatures in less than twenty four hours, and prompted President Obama’s renewed vow to address the thorny issue.
Davis’s presentation will cover a range of civil rights issues related to U.S. detention of terrorists:

• Is it legal to detain suspects forever, without charging them or bringing them to trial? 
• Is it legal to force feed detainees through tubes when they are protesting their situation in a mass hunger strike? 
• Is it legal to use evidence obtained by “extraordinary interrogation techniques” in a military commission or U.S. court? 

His presentation and discussion of these legal issues will be of use and interest to civil rights lawyers, immigration lawyers, and criminal lawyers.

Title:
Eroding the Foundations of International Humanitarian Law: The United States Post-9/11
When/Where:
October 17, 2013
Noon - 1 PM Eastern
Moot Courtroom (A59)
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
11075 East Boulevard
Cleveland, OH 44106-7148
Also Webcast
Speaker:
Morris Davis is an attorney and a national security, military and international humanitarian law commentator. He served in the Air Force JAG from 1983 to 2008 and retired as a Colonel. He was Chief Prosecutor for the Military Commissions at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, from 2005 to 2007 where he led a multi-agency prosecution task force of over 100 personnel from DOD, DOJ, CIA and FBI. He resigned in 2007 rather than use evidence obtained by torture or tolerate political meddling. His final military assignment was as Director of the Air Force Judiciary where he oversaw the criminal justice system and supervised 265 people at sites worldwide. He served as a Senior Specialist in National Security and Director of the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division at the Congressional Research Service from 2008 to 2010. He was Executive Director of the Crimes of War Education Project from 2010 to 2011. He joined the faculty at the Howard University School of Law in July 2011.
Colonel Davis writes and speaks on a range of legal issues and has been in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times and Der Spiegel and on CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera and NPR, among other media outlets.
By:
Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Lecture, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Credit:
1 hr. of CLE credit available
Cost:
Free and open to the public.
More:
http://law.cwru.edu/Lectures.aspx?lec_id=347

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