“National Guantánamo Teach-In” to be simulcast at two sites on campus
The William & Mary Law School will be among more than 250 law schools and colleges across the nation that will link to the live webcast of the “National Guantánamo Teach-In” which will begin at 10 a.m. and conclude at 7 p.m. EST on Thursday, Oct. 5, at Seton Hall University Law School. The webcast can be viewed in two locations: Tidewater B in the University Center on the main campus and in room 134 at the William & Mary Law School at 613 South Henry Street. Seating will be limited at both sites. The event is free and open to the public.
According to organizers the Teach-In, titled “Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?”, is the first national event of its kind “to study the government’s unprecedented detention in Guantánamo of hundreds of individuals described as ‘enemy combatants.'” Teach-in participants include academics, journalists, military officers, theologians, human rights activists, lawyers for detainees, and former detainees.
Participating speakers include Joseph Margulies, author of Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power, William H. Taft IV, former chief legal adviser at the U.S. State Department, Lt. Commander Charles Swift, who launched Hamdan v. Rumsfeld as military defense counsel to Mr. Hamden, and Capt. James Yee, former chaplain at Guantánamo and author of For God and Country: Faith and Patriotism Under Fire.
The campus webcast is sponsored by the Human Rights and National Security Law Program.
For more information about the Teach-In, go to law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/.
