War on Terror's Impact on Human Rights to Be Discussed By ABA Meeting Panel Moderated By Jenner & Block's Barry Sullivan

CHICAGO, Aug. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The War on Terrorism's effect on human rights and compatibility with the Rule of Law will be addressed by a distinguished panel of legal experts at the American Bar Association's Annual Meeting this week. As part of the Presidential CLE program, Jenner & Block Partner Barry Sullivan will moderate the panel discussion entitled, "The Global War on Terror: Conflict or Compatibility with the U.S. Bill of Rights and International Rule of Law?"

The panelists will examine domestic and foreign responses to terrorism and/or perceived terrorist threats and their impact upon civil liberties protected under the U.S. Constitution and other legal instruments. The implications for the advancement of the rule of law worldwide in light of the response to terrorism will also be discussed.

  In addition to Mr. Sullivan, the panelists include:

  -- Professor M. Cherif Bassiouni - Professor of Law at DePaul University
     College of Law and President of the International Human Rights Law
     Institute, Chicago
  -- Giuseppe Bisconti - President of the International Foundation for the
     Rule of Law and former President of the International Bar Association,
     Rome
  -- Harold Honju Koh - Dean of Yale Law School and former Assistant
     Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, New Haven
  -- Guy Mansfield - Chairman of the General Council of the Bar of England
     and Wales, London
  -- Elisa Massimino - Director of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers
     Committee for Human Rights) in Washington, DC
  -- John Norton Moore - Professor at the University of Virginia and former
     Chair of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace,
     Charlottesville
  -- Mary Robinson - former President of Ireland, former United Nations High
     Commissioner for Human Rights, and President of the Ethical
     Globalization Initiative, New York
  -- Suzanne Spaulding - Managing Director of The Harbour Group, LLC and
     former Chair of the ABA's Standing Committee on Law and National
     Security
  -- Professor Geoffrey R. Stone - former Dean and Provost of the University
     of Chicago and author of the critically acclaimed book Perilous Times:
     Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on
     Terrorism (2004), Chicago
  -- Professor Ruth Wedgewood - Edward B. Burling Professor of International
     Law and Diplomacy and Director of the International Law and
     Organization Program at Johns Hopkins University, Washington

Mr. Sullivan, Co-Chair of the Firm's Appellate and Supreme Court Practice, is Chair of the ABA Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities' Bill of Rights Committee. He headed the Jenner & Block team that prepared the ABA's brief in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, the U.S. Supreme Court case concerning whether a U.S. citizen may be held indefinitely, without access to counsel, as an "enemy combatant."

The August 7 discussion will be held from 8:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency, Regency Ballroom A/B, Gold Level, West Tower.

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