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experience in counter-terrorism operations, Mr. Roughsedge is currently a consultant for a joint U.S. Departments of State
and Defense program advising foreign nations on issues involving counter-terrorism, peacekeeping operations and the laws
of war.
• Susannah Sirkin is Deputy Director of Physicians for Human Rights (PHR), a national organization that mobilizes
health professionals to advance the health and dignity of all people through action that promotes respect for, protection
of and fulfillment of human rights. Sirkin has organized health and human rights investigations to dozens of countries,
including recent documentation of genocide and systematic rape in Darfur, PHR’s exhumations of mass graves in the former
Yugoslavia and in Rwanda for the International Criminal Tribunals.
• Ambassador John Shattuck is the Chief Executive Officer of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Ambassador
Shattuck’s career spans three decades of leadership in education, government service and the nonprofit sector. He is the
author of Freedom on Fire: Human Rights Wars of the 90s, Rights of Privacy and many articles on civil liberties, human
rights and public service. His distinguished career includes serving as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy,
Human Rights and Labor.
• Sabin Willett is a Partner in the firm Bingham McCutchen LLP and concentrates his practice in commercial
litigation and bankruptcy litigation. Mr. Willett represents prisoners in Guantanamo Bay on a pro bono basis. (His lecture at
the 2006 EPIIC symposium, So Who’s at Guantanamo Anyway?, can be heard in its entirety at www.epiic.org.
Alberto Mora and Michael Posner were presented with the Dr. Jean Mayer Global Citizenship Award at the panel.
The Mock Senate and Mock Supreme Court Hearings were held
in March in Washington, DC at the Law Library of Congress. The
Congressional hearing, which explored warrantless wiretapping,
was an opportunity for students to think about “inherent”
presidential powers and understand their impact on the
Constitution, separation of powers, and checks and balances. The
eavesdropping on communications by the National Security Agency
provides a compelling and interesting case study to investigate
these issues more broadly and deeply. IGL students were joined
by students from the Tufts Debate Team, the US Military Academy,
and the US Naval Academy to represent the roles of senators
and witnesses to debate the issues at hand. The hearing of the
Congressional Oversight Committee was presided over by Louis
Fisher, Senior Specialist in separation of powers with the Congressional Research Service of the Library of Congress, and
Bryan Bachner, the Assistant Director of the Directorate of Legal Research for International, Comparative, and Foreign Law
at the Law Library of Congress.
The Supreme Court Hearing was an appeal focusing on the Federal District’s Court decision on the constitutionality of
wire tapping in the national security context. Issues covered included the Fourth Amendment pertaining to search and
seizure, wire tapping, the inherent constitutional powers of the president, and statutory authority. This exercise served
as an introduction to judicial process issues and appellate advocacy techniques. The exercise looked at the August 2006
decision by U.S. District Judge Anna Diggs Taylor striking down the President’s national security wiretap plan. The goal of the
role-playing exercise was to have the participants experience an appellate oral argument and to think about and analyze
the differences between debate in the public policy and political arena and deliberation in a judicial setting.
The trip to Washington, DC also included an Insider’s Tour of the Supreme Court; a White House Briefing at the Eisenhower
Executive Office Building with Frances Townsend, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism;
a special rare book display in the Law Library Conference Room which included the Magna Carta, the Declaration of
Independence, and the Emancipation Proclamation; and a seminar on “inherent” presidential powers with Louis Fisher.
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