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ISSUE OF TORTURE AND U.S. POLICY TO BE EXPLORED BY LAW AND SECURITY EXPERT KAREN GREENBERG ON SEPTEMBER 17 AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY IN WAYNE
--Lecture by Greenberg is presented in observance of Constitution Day
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William Paterson University in Wayne will observe Constitution Day on Thursday, September 17 with a lecture by Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law, titled “How Did We Get to Torture? Torture and U.S. Policy.” The event, which is free and open to the public, begins at 11 a.m. in the David and Lorraine Cheng Library Auditorium on campus.
Federal legislation signed in December 2004 requires all educational institutions that receive federal funds to implement an educational program on September 17 each year that provides students with increased awareness and appreciation of the U.S. Constitution, which was adopted by the Constitutional Convention on September 17, 1787.
The program is sponsored by the American Democracy Project (ADP) at William Paterson University, part of a nationwide initiative coordinated by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) that seeks to increase civic engagement among American students attending public colleges and universities. The event will serve as the kick-off of ADP’s Youth Vote ’09 Campaign, “Be a Part of Something Big,” a University-wide effort to register new voters and encourage them to vote on Election Day.
Karen J. Greenberg is a frequent writer, commentator, and lecturer on the Guantanamo, Bay detention camp, torture, terrorism trials, and other issues related to the war on terror. She is the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo's First 100 Days, editor of the NYU Review of Law and Security, co-editor of the Center's newest publication, The Enemy Combatants Papers: American Justice, the Courts, and the War on Terror, The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib, and editor of the books Al Qaeda Now and The Torture Debate in America.
Greenberg previously taught courses in the European Studies Department at New York University. She served as co-chair to then-Governor Eliot Spitzer’s Homeland Security transition committee, where she advised the governor-elect on the major challenges facing New York State. Her work has been featured in The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Nation, The American Prospect, and on major news channels. She has served as a consultant to the National Endowment for the Humanities, the New York Council for the Humanities, the New York City Board of Education, and USAID.
For additional information, contact the Christine Kelly, professor of political science and director of the American Democracy Project at William Paterson University at 973-720-3430.
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September 1 , 2009
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