Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU Named as Touro Law’s 2010 Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence
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Jameel Jaffer of the ACLU Named as Touro Law’s 2010 Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence
Lecture on Wed. Oct. 20, 2010
October 8, 2010Central Islip, NY – Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center’s Annual Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer In Residence program will be held on Wednesday, October 20, 2010, featuring Jameel Jaffer, Esq., the Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union. Mr. Jaffer will present a lecture titled “Security, Liberty, and Human Rights”. The reception will begin at 6:30 p.m. In addition, there will be a community reception before the lecture at 6 p.m which is free and open to the public.
Through the Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence Program, Touro Law recognizes attorneys who have made significant contributions to society. Jaffer directs the ACLU's National Security Project, which litigates civil liberties and human rights cases relating to detention, surveillance, censorship, discrimination, and secrecy. Among the Project's current cases are Amnesty v. Blair, a challenge to warrantless wiretapping under the amended Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; Mohamed v. Jeppesen, a suit against a Boeing subsidiary that facilitated the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program; Kindhearts v. Paulson, a challenge to the Treasury Department's blacklisting of a prominent U.S.-based charity as a "specially designated terrorist organization"; and ACLU v. Department of Defense, landmark litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that has resulted in the release of thousands of documents concerning the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. overseas.
Jaffer has twice testified before the U.S. Congress about civil liberties issues relating to national security, and his co-authored book, Administration of Torture, an edited collection of government documents relating to the abuse of prisoners, was published by Columbia University Press in 2007. He is a graduate of Williams College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law where he was an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Mr. Jaffer served as law clerk to Hon. Amalya L. Kearse, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then to Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.
Through the Distinguished Public Interest Lawyer in Residence Program, Touro Law recognizes attorneys who have made significant contributions to society. Jaffer directs the ACLU's National Security Project, which litigates civil liberties and human rights cases relating to detention, surveillance, censorship, discrimination, and secrecy. Among the Project's current cases are Amnesty v. Blair, a challenge to warrantless wiretapping under the amended Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act; Mohamed v. Jeppesen, a suit against a Boeing subsidiary that facilitated the CIA's "extraordinary rendition" program; Kindhearts v. Paulson, a challenge to the Treasury Department's blacklisting of a prominent U.S.-based charity as a "specially designated terrorist organization"; and ACLU v. Department of Defense, landmark litigation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) that has resulted in the release of thousands of documents concerning the abuse of prisoners held by the U.S. overseas.
Jaffer has twice testified before the U.S. Congress about civil liberties issues relating to national security, and his co-authored book, Administration of Torture, an edited collection of government documents relating to the abuse of prisoners, was published by Columbia University Press in 2007. He is a graduate of Williams College, Cambridge University, and Harvard Law where he was an Articles Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After law school, Mr. Jaffer served as law clerk to Hon. Amalya L. Kearse, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then to Rt. Hon. Beverley McLachlin, Chief Justice of Canada.
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