Reflections on Litigating National Security Cases After 9/11

Thu, 2012-02-02 12:00

Speaker: Lee Gelernt, American Civil Liberties Union

Moderator: Professor Sahar F. Aziz

Lee Gelernt has been an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union since 1992, and works on immigration and national security issues. He currently holds the positions of Deputy Director of the ACLU’s national Immigrants’ Rights Project, and Director of the Project’s Program on Access to the Courts. He has argued numerous groundbreaking civil rights cases at all levels of the federal court system, including Ashcroft v. al-Kidd in the U.S. Supreme Court, which challenged the constitutionality of the government’s post 9-11 policy of using the federal material witness statute to investigate and preventively detain terrorism suspects in cases where there was no probable cause to justify a criminal arrest.

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