Call For Participants &Proposals @ The National Security Law Workshop

The National Security Law Workshop, now in its eighth year, is a unique event. It brings civilian law faculty, Judge Advocates, ICRC representatives, and other government legal advisers together for two days of dialogue on national security law topics. The event is in May but attendance and presentation requests are due by March 20th.

Format

This year’s event will follow last year’s format, with an emphasis on roundtable discussions. Towards this end, we hereby solicit proposals to lead a roundtable discussion of a particular topic. Proposals should include a brief (no more than one page) discussion explaining the topic and its significance. And while we anticipate that a number of the discussion sessions will focus on the law relating to armed conflict, we also encourage proposals on a broader array of national security topics. Applications are due by March 20th.

 Applications

Please submit your proposals or attendance requests to both:

Bobby Chesney (rchesney@law.utexas.edu ), and
Geoff Corn (gcorn@stcl.edu )

by close of business on March 20th. Currently, we anticipate accepting 25-30 total attendees.

Sponsored by:
The International Committee of the Red Cross
The South Texas College of Law
The Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law at the University of Texas—Austin

May 14-15, 2014
Location: Houston (South Texas College of Law)