BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260628T044916EDT-4327Kjsfvc@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260628T084916Z DESCRIPTION:Join us for Legal Theory Workshop with Prof. Sari Kisilevsky (C UNY)\, who will discuss a paper she is currently drafting:\n'On Dec. 31\, 2011\, despite widespread controversy\, President Obama signed the Nationa l Defense Authorization Act into law.1 Among other things\, this legislati on codified the government’s practice of detaining foreign enemy combatant s without charge\, and reaffirmed its policy of trying them in military co mmissions. The signing of this legislation\, along with the recent targete d killing of an American citizen for engaging in terrorist activities\, ev idence of a secret “kill list” maintained by the President\,3 and news tha t the US government is engaged in indiscriminate monitoring of people’s ph one and internet activity are stark examples of the extent to which the US government will ignore legal procedure in its prosecution of the “war on terrorism.”\nThere is no legal reason compelling the trial of foreign susp ects in military commissions rather than federal courts\; federal courts h ave the jurisdiction to try these foreigners accused of war crimes and ter rorism suspects\, and established rules for governing such trials. The pri mary justification that the government has offered is its need to “balance ” Americans’ liberty against a heightened threat to security. In times of danger\, the thought goes\, the government must limit people’s liberty in light of this heightened threat in order to protect people from the increa sed risks to their security. I will call this the argument from balance. M y aim in what follows is to evaluate its moral legitimacy with respect to the US government’s policy of trying enemy belligerents in military commis sions rather than in federal courts.'\nAbout the speaker\nAssistant Profes sor of Philosophy Sari Kisilevsky previously held the Pearl and Nathan Hal egua Chair in Ethics and Tolerance. In addition to her affiliation with Je wish Studies at Queens College\, Professor Kisilevsky is a scholar with CU NY School of Law\, where she teaches philosophy of law\, political philoso phy\, and ethics. She received the Faculty Publication Program Fellowship Award for the spring 2011 semester\, and the college’s President’s Award f or Innovative Teaching in 2010. Her presentations have included the Force and Freedom: Workshop on Arthur Ripstein’s Force and Freedom: Kant’s Moral and Legal Philosophy\, organized with Martin Stone\, Cardozo/New School a nd Lon Fuller’s The Case of the Speluncean Explorer to the Honors in Socia l Science 200. She served as Program Committee Chair (with Jonathan Peters on\, University of Toronto) of Philosophy of Law and Social and Political Philosophy for Congress 2010 of the Canadian Philosophical Association. In 2011 she presented “Security\, Liberty\, and Procedural Justice: Rethinki ng the Balance\,” at Nassau Community College\, and “Easy Cases and Social Sources: Toward a New Defense of Legal Positivism\,” at The Nature of Law : Contemporary Perspectives\, Mac- Master University\, Hamilton\, Ontario\ , Canada. Her publication of “Equity\, Necessity and the Rule of Law\,” Pr oceedings of the 10th International Kant Congress\, was published by de Gr uyter publishers\, Berlin.\nThe Workshops\nThe Legal Theory Workshop Serie s brings leading scholars from around the world to the Faculty throughout the teaching year to present work-in-progress. All members of the 91 L aw community\, students and faculty alike\, are invited to attend.\n DTSTART:20150213T180000Z DTEND:20150213T193000Z LOCATION:NCDH 202\, Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 36 44 rue Peel SUMMARY:Legal Theory Workshop: Balancing Security and Liberty: Trying Forei gn Enemy Combatants in Military Commissions URL:/law/channels/event/legal-theory-workshop-balancin g-security-and-liberty-trying-foreign-enemy-combatants-military-241564 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR