UWP Lecturers Civil Liberties and the “War on Terror” - Erwin Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished P rofessor of Law, UCI

[John Ganim]

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>Civil Liberties and the "War on Terror"
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>Erwin Chemerinsky
>Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law
>University of California, Irvine
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>2008-2009 Keynote Address
>Law & Society Program Speaker Series
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>May 18, 2009, 2:00-4:00
>Highlander Union Building (HUB), Room 355
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>Erwin Chemerinsky is one of the pre-eminent scholars of 
>constitutional law in the United States.  Dean Chemerinsky has 
>written extensively on the constitutional implications of the "war 
>on terror" and for more than six years has represented a Guantanamo 
>Bay detainee who was indefinitely imprisoned without charge.  He is 
>the author of six books and over one hundred law review articles on 
>constitutional law and federal jurisdiction.  Dean Chemerinsky also 
>has maintained an active pro bono appellate practice and has 
>regularly argued cases before the United States Supreme Court.  He 
>is the founding Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law of the 
>School of Law at the University of California, Irvine.  Prior to 
>coming to UC Irvine in 2008, Dean Chemerinsky was Professor of Law 
>and Political Science at Duke University, and was for over twenty 
>years a Professor of Law at the University of Southern California Law School.
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