Guantanamo Teach-In

Today, Seton Hall Law School is hosting a Guantanomo “Teach-In.” Here’s how the steering committee co-chairs, Mark Denbeaux and Alan Sussman describe the event:

With more than 200 schools in at least 44 states already participating, “Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?” is an unprecedented collaborative effort of academia, journalism, religion, medicine and even the military in exploring the Government’s detention policy and practices in the “war on terror.” On October 5th, Seton Hall will host an all-day conference available at academic institutions across the United States to study the national and international implications of indefinitely detaining hundreds of individuals deemed “enemy combatants.”
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Unique to “Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?” is the ability of participating schools to mix and match simulcast sessions from Seton Hall with their own on-campus programming. Beginning at 10:00 EST, the Teach-In will be available via high-quality video streams accessed through this website. Schools in earlier time zones can pick up the sessions in progress or, by accessing a recording of the earlier sessions, view the whole program from the beginning. And, of course, participating schools can schedule their own programming instead of or in addition to some of the nationally broadcast sessions.

Temple’s Institute on International Law & Public Poilcy is participating and hosting two “local” events: (1) a faculty panel discussion of Hamdan (Opinio Juris’ own Peter Spiro will be among those speaking) and (2) a panel of area lawyers discussing their representation of Guantanomo detainees. I’d be interested to hear which other schools are participating and what sort of programming they’re doing as well. For those interested in accessing the video simulcasts, more details can be found here.