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Recent Events
January 26, 2007
Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift
College of Law Auditorium
Lt. Cdr. Swift is a decorated Navy
officer and lawyer whom the military detailed to represent Salim Ahmed
Hamdan, a personal driver to Osama Bin Laden, before military commissions
charging Hamdan with conspiracy to commit terrorism. This past summer the U.S.
Supreme Court accepted Swift's claim that the military commissions were not
lawfully constituted.
In June 2006, the National Law Journal named
Swift as one of "The 100 most influential lawyers in America."
Conference: “DUI and Domestic Battery”
Seminar by the Illinois Association
of Criminal Defense Lawyers
October 19, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
College of Law Room A
Co-Sponsored by the Program in Criminal Law & Procedure
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Movie:
“Anatomy of a Murder”
October 19, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
College of Law Room A
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Speaker: John
Conroy
“The Making
of a Torturer”
September 5, 2006
College of Law Auditorium
The use of torture
is a major issue in American foreign policy. Closer to home, a special prosecutor
in Chicago recently issued a report -- 4 years and $7 million in the making
-- concluding that Chicago Police Commander Jon Burge and some of his Area 2
subordinates engaged in the systematic torture of criminal suspects. JOHN
CONROY, who has covered this scandal for the Chicago Reader, will speak more generally about the use of
torture by ordinary people in democracies around the world. JOHN CONROY is an
alumnus of the University
of Illinois, an author
of two highly acclaimed books, and a multiple award-winning journalist.
This event was co-sponsored by the Department of Journalism.
Members of the Illinois Program in Criminal Law &
Procedure
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