January 26, 2006

National Security Forum - Lawfare: Terrorism and the Courts

Can we trust the courts with classified information? It’s a question of immediate importance for terrorism cases, civil cases that involve state secrets, and the use of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court in obtaining judicial approval of wiretaps.

These issues will be examined at William Mitchell as a part of the college’s National Security Forum “Lawfare: Terrorism and the Courts - Due Process After 9/11” on Thursday, Feb. 16, 7-9 p.m. in the college’s auditorium.

This event is free and open to the public. Application will be made for one standard Minnesota CLE credit.

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This lecture features Judge Gerald Rosen, U.S. District Court, Detroit, who presided over the Koubriti “sleeper” cell case; Judge John Tunheim, U.S. District Court, Minneapolis, the chair of the Kennedy Assassination Records Review Board; and James Rosen, a Minneapolis Star Tribune national security correspondent in Washington, D.C.

William Mitchell Associate Professor A. John Radsan, a former federal prosecutor and former assistant general counsel at the CIA, will moderate the event. Radsan is the director and founder of the National Security Forum at William Mitchell. The forum furthers the discussion on national security matters and explores the balance between individual liberty and public safety in the post 9/11 world. The forum will host several lectures each year featuring renowned experts, scholars, and policymakers on national security issues.

• Prof. A. John Radsan’s biography

Speaker Biographies

Judge Gerald Rosen was appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1989. Prior to taking the bench, Rosen was a senior partner in the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, the oldest, and one of the largest firms in Michigan. Rosen also served as a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Robert P. Griffin of Michigan, while earning his law degree at George Washington University. He is a co-author of Federal Civil Trials and Evidence (The Rutter Group, 1999) and is the senior editor of West’s Michigan Practice Guide series. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Detroit Law School and Wayne State University Law School.

Judge
John Tunheim

Judge John Tunheim was appointed to the U.S. District Court in 1996. Since 1994 he has served, by presidential appointment, as chair of the U.S. Assassination Records Review Board, an independent federal agency responsible for facilitating the review and public disclosure of government records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Prior to joining the bench, he served as chief deputy attorney general, Minnesota solicitor general, and with the St. Paul law firm of Oppenheimer, Wolff, Foster, Shepard and Donnelly. He earned his law degree from the University of Minnesota and clerked for Senior U.S. District Judge Earl Larson.

James Rosen is a national security correspondent in the Washington, D.C. bureau of McClatchy Newspapers, the country’s eighth-largest newspaper group with more than 1.4 million readers, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune. He covers the Iraq war, terrorism, the current controversy over domestic wiretapping, and general military, intelligence, and foreign-affairs issues. Earlier in his career, he covered the  fall and break-up of Soviet Union for United Press International, the New York Daily News and McClatchy Newspapers.