Secret Practices in the War on Terror

Barbara Olshansky (JD '85), lead attorney in the Guantánamo detainee case, “Rasul V. Bush,” and associate legal director of the Center on Constitutional Rights, will lecture as the 2005 Public Interest Lawyer of the Year. “Rasul v. Bush” challenged the U.S. government's practice of holding foreign nationals captured in connection with its war on Afghanistan and al-Qaida in indefinite detention, without counsel and without the right to a trial or to know the charges against them. In 2004, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the detainees have access to U.S. courts to challenge their detention.

Date and Time:

Thursday, November 10, 2005. 5:30 PM.
Approximate duration of 1.5 hour(s).

Location:

Stanford Law School, Room 190, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way [Map]

URL:

http://www.law.stanford.edu

Audience:

Faculty/Staff
Alumni/Friends
General Public
Students

Category:

Lectures/Readings

Sponsor:

Stanford Law School, the Stanford Public Interest Law Foundation, and the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies