UM Law School Professor Stephen I. Vladeck to Speak at Symposium Entitled "Crimes, War Crimes, and the War on Terror"
UM Law School Professor Stephen I. Vladeck will be participating in a symposium to be held Friday, April 20, 2007, at Lewis and Clark Law School in Portland, Oregon, titled "Crimes, War Crimes, and the War on Terror." Professor Vladeck will be in a panel titled "The Other Criminal Process: War Crimes, Military Commissions, and Habeas Corpus," where he will present a new paper, titled "Enemy Aliens, Enemy Property, and Access to the Courts." In this paper, Professor Vladeck examines the underexplored jurisprudence concerning who the "enemy" is, comparing the jurisprudence under the Alien Enemy Act of 1798, the Trading With the Enemy Act of 1917, and the so-called "enemy property" doctrine. The paper argues that courts have long played a central role in adjudicating claims by individuals that they are not, in fact, "enemies," and that the current debate over "enemy combatants" and access to the courts has completely neglected these earlier--and important--precedents. Click here to view the complete program.
Professor Vladeck’s additional presentations:
Professor Stephen I. Vladeck recently participated in a panel titled "Who Maintains the Rule of Law?: Eliminating Federal Habeas Jurisdiction," at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Chicago, Illinois. Professor Vladeck spoke about the D.C. Circuit's February 2007 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, the Suspension Clause, and the constitutionality of the Military Commissions Act of 2006.
Professor Vladeck also participated in a symposium sponsored by the Floersheimer Center for Constitutional Democracy at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York, titled "The Domestic Commander-in-Chief." Professor Vladeck’s panel is about "The Commander in Chief, Congressional Control, and Judicial Review," where he presented a new paper, titled "The Calling Forth Clause and the Domestic Commander-in-Chief." This paper surveys the extent to which Congress's power "to provide for the calling forth of the militia" in certain domestic crises should inform one’s understanding of the separation of domestic emergency power. Click here to view the complete program in pdf.
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posted 19-April-2007
