“Institutionalizing the War on Terror”

Professor Ken Anderson is holding a conference entitled “Institutionalizing the War on Terror” on Monday, April 10 at the Washington College of Law at American University in Washington D.C. (full details can be found here). Here is a brief summary:

The Bush administration and many others have declared that the war on terror is a long term effort that will outlast any particular presidential administration and in some ways resembles the combined military and ideological struggle of the Cold War. In the long term war on terror, is it possible to conduct it by relying primarily on the power and authority of the executive branch, or does the long term struggle require that Congress institutionalize it through legislation?

This is a very interesting and important idea and Ken has lined up a very knowledgeable (and admittedly non-leftish) group of experts. It looks like a great event!