The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs is proud to host a Current Affairs Debate with Juliette Kayyem and Jack Goldsmith on Friday, September 22th.
After the Supreme Court’s ruling this summer holding that the military commissions established to try the Guantanamo detainees did not satisfy legal requirements, President Bush proposed a new set of regulations to try alleged terrorist detainees on the War on Terrorism. Further, last week, the President acknowledged a CIA program that held “high-value terrorist detainees” in “ghost prisons” overseas; these detainees, including Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, thought to be the September 11 mastermind, have now been moved to Guantanamo. Led by Republican Senators John McCain, Lindsay Graham and John Warner, Congress is now debating what specific procedures ought to be afforded the detainees. This Belfer Center Debate will address the law, policy and politics of these issues.
Juliette Kayyem: Juliette is a Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School and serves as co-faculty chair of the Dubai Initiative, a program with the Dubai School of Government. From 1999-2000, Juliette served as former House Minority Leader Richard Gephardt's appointee to the National Commission on Terrorism, a congressionally-mandated review of how the government could better prepare for the growing terrorist threat. Prior to this, she served as a legal adviser to then Attorney General Janet Reno, where she worked on a variety of national security and terrorism cases. In that capacity, she oversaw the government's review of its classification procedures regarding secret evidence. Juliette Kayyem is co-author of Preserving Liberty in an Age of Terror (MIT Press, 2005) and co-editor of First to Arrive: State and Local Responses to Terrorism (MIT Press, 2003), as well as the author of numerous journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. She is also a national security analyst for NBC News.
Jack Goldsmith: Jack Goldsmith is Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law at Harvard University, specializing in international law, foreign affairs law, conflicts of law, and national security law. He is the author of dozens of articles on these and other subjects. His most recent publications are Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of a Borderless World (Oxford Press 2006) (co-authored with Tim Wu) and (with Eric Posner) The Limits of International Law (Oxford Press 2005). Before coming to Harvard, he served as Assistant Attorney General, Office of Legal Counsel, from October 2003 through July 2004, and Special Counsel to the General Counsel to the Department of Defense from September 2002 through June 2003. Professor Goldsmith taught at the University of Chicago Law School from 1997-2002, and at the University of Virginia Law School from 1994-1997.
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