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Last 20 Shows Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Three: Pseudosecrecy, From SHSI to SBU to CUI A review of the problematic proliferation of "safeguarding labels," from Clinton-era origins to prospective Obama Administration solutions (potentially in the form of an unprecedented executive order).
William J. Bosanko, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration; Michael German, National Security Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Matthew L. Kronisch, Associate General Counsel for Intelligence, Department of Homeland Securit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Washington College of Law 2010 Commencement AddressWashington College of Law 2010 Commencement Address by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Welcome and Opening Remarks / Introduction / Award Presentation / Keynote AddressWelcome and Opening Remarks -- Daniel J. Metcalfe, Executive Director, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law
Introduction -- Claudio M. Grossman, Dean and Professor of Law, Washington College of Law
Award Presentation -- Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee
Keynote Address -- John D. Podesta, President and CEO, Center for American Progress, Former White House Chief of Staff, and Obama/Biden Transition Team Co-ChairListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel One: Big Freedom of Information Act Litigation CasesA wide-ranging discussion of pending issues in major FOIA litigation by expert government and private-sector litigators.
Thomas H. Golden, Partner, Willkie, Farr & Gallagher; Marc Rotenberg, Executive Director, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC); Leonard Schaitman, Assistant Director, Appellate Staff, Civil Division, Department of Justice; Arthur B. Spitzer, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area; and Thomas S. Blanton, Director, National Sec ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Two: Backlog Reduction Under the Open Government DirectiveAn inside look at the potential implementation of this major government-wide FOIA initiative.
Charles N. Davis, Associate Professor, Missouri School of Journalism, and Executive Director, National Freedom of Information Coalition; William T. Kammer, Chief, Freedom of Information Policy Office, Department of Defense; Sharon M. Mar, Policy Analyst, Information Policy Branch, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and Budget; and Mark Tapscott, Editorial Page Edito ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Luncheon AddressNorman L. Eisen, Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform and key official on the White House Open Government InitiativeListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Three: Pseudosecrecy, From SHSI to SBU to CUIA review of the problematic proliferation of "safeguarding labels," from Clinton-era origins to prospective Obama Administration solutions (potentially in the form of an unprecedented executive order).
William J. Bosanko, Director, Information Security Oversight Office, National Archives and Records Administration; Michael German, National Security Policy Counsel, American Civil Liberties Union; Matthew L. Kronisch, Associate General Counsel for Intelligence, Department of Homeland Securit ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Third Annual Freedom of Information Day - Panel Four: Exemption Three Going ForwardAn analysis of the FOIA's controversial "catch-all exemption," its recognized scope to date, and its future application under the OPEN FOIA Act of 2009 (the "2009 FOIA Amendment").
Jason I. Allen, Senior Research Assistant, Collaboration on Government Secrecy, Washington College of Law; Kevin M. Goldberg, Special Counsel, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth, P.L.C.; Matthew L. Johnson, Chief Counsel to Senator John Cornyn for Senate Judiciary Committee; and Adina H. Rosenbaum, Director, Freedom of ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Opening RemarksWCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against Torture
Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty InternationalListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Panel One: Building on CAT's Successes and Addressing its Shortcomings: The Stakeholders' PerspectivesSantiago Canton, Executive Secretary, Inter?American Commission on Human Rights
Jens Faerkel,Minister Counsellor of the Human Rights Department of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Felice Gaer, Member, UN Committee against Torture
Yuval Ginbar, Legal Advisor, Amnesty International
Joao Nataf, Acting Secretary, UN Committee against Torture
Florence Simbiri?Jaoko, Chairperson, Kenya National Commission on Human Rights
Moderator: Mark Thomson, Secretary General, Association for the Preven ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Panel Two: Ensuring Reparations for Victims of Torture and Other Ill - TreatmentChristopher Hall, Senior Legal Advisor, International Justice Project, Amnesty International
Juan Mendez, WCL Visiting Professor of Law and former President, International Center for Transitional Justice
Lorna McGregor, International Legal Advisor, REDRESS
Nora Sveaass, Vice Chair, UN Committee against Torture
Moderator: WCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against TortureListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Luncheon Keynote Address by the Honorable Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and LaborLuncheon Keynote Address by the Honorable Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor: "The Role of the U.S. in Strengthening the Prohibition Against Torture"Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Panel Three: Interpretation and Implementation of CAT Article 22 (Petitions)Julia Hall, Researcher on Counter?Terrorism and Human Rights in Europe, Amnesty International
Barbara Jackman, Immigration and Refugee Lawyer, Jackman & Associates (Canada)
Ann Jordan, Director, Program on Forced Labor and Trafficking, WCL Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Francisco Quintana, Deputy Program Director for the Andean, North America and Caribbean Region, Center for Justice and International Law
Moderator: Ambassador Luis Gallegos, Member, UN Committee against TortureListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Strengthening the Prohibition of Torture: The Evolution of the UN Committee against Torture - Concluding RemarksWCL Dean and Professor of Law Claudio Grossman, Chair, UN Committee against Torture
Widney Brown, Senior Director, International Law and Policy, Amnesty InternationalListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Welcome/Opening Remarks / Speaker: Different Perspectives on Customary LawThis first session will give an overview of what customary law is and how it functions in various societies.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Panel: Customary Law and the Tension Between Collective Versus Individual RightsThis panel will discuss the how collective rights under customary law intersect with and sometimes conflict with individual rights established under national law or international human rights law.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Keynote SpeechTopic: Whether modern conceptions of democracy and human rights provide a role for customary law in advancing human rights or enriching the constitutional stateListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Custom, Law and Tradition: Alternative Legal Systems and their Impact on Human Rights - Panel: How Does Customary Law Fit into or Conflict With State-building Processes?This panel will discuss the use of customary law communities or states that are emerging from human rights violations or seeking sovereignty. Panelists will discuss the pressure for nations/communities to come into line with a larger national or regional human rights framework.Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Welcome/Introduction / Opening Keynote AddressClaudio M. Grossman, Dean, Washington College of Law
Kevin G. Barker, Editor in Chief, Administrative Law Review
The Honorable Cass R. Sunstein, Administrator, Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and BudgetListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
Regulatory Change Under the Obama Administration - Regulatory Change in the Financial SectorModerator: Professor Stephen Wermiel, Washington College of Law
Annette L. Nazareth, Partner, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP & former Commissioner, Securities and Exchange Commission
Damon A. Silvers, Deputy Chair, Congressional Oversight Panel & Director of Policy and Special Counsel, AFL-CIO
Professor Arthur E. Wilmarth, Jr., George Washington UniversityListen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Visit Website
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