How the U.S. Can Lose the War on Terror 23rd April 2008: 6pm Council Room, North Wing, The Quad, University College Cork
How the U.S. Can Lose the War on Terror
23rd April 2008: 6pm
Council Room, North Wing, The Quad, University College Cork
Fiona de Londras (CCJHR), Dean John D. Hutson (Franklin Pierce Law Centre), Professor Caroline Fennell (CCJHR), Brendan O'Shea (Irish Defence Forces), and Dr Siobhán Mullally (CCJHR)
CCJHR Public Seminar Series
‘HOW THE U.S. CAN LOSE THE WAR ON TERROR’
with
John D. Hutson, President and Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Center, USA
(Rear Admiral and JAGC US Navy (retd))
Discussant: Fiona De Londras, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, Faculty of Law, U.C.C.
Date: Wednesday April 23rd 2008, 6pm
Venue: Council Room, North Wing, the Quad, U.C.C.
email: ccjhr@ucc.ie
All Welcome
John D. Hutson is President and Dean of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, NH, USA. He previously served as Rear Admiral and Judge Advocate General of the US Navy. He is an Attorney, and a graduate of Minnesota Law School and Georgetown University Law Center. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights First.
Dean Hutson has been an outspoken critic of the treatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay and of US policies on the ‘war on terror’. In 2004, Hutson and seven other retired officers wrote an open letter to President Bush expressing their concern over the number of allegations of abuse of prisoners in U.S. military custody. In 2005, Dean Hutson, along with Yale Law School dean Harold Koh, testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in opposition to the appointment of Alberto Gonzales as attorney general of the United States, because of his alleged role in attempting to provide legal guidance to the U.S. military justifying abusive interrogation practices. Hutson has also testified before the Senate Armed Services Personnel Subcommittee, offering his opinion on the detention of "unlawful combatants". Hutson was one of a number of lawyers and retired navy officers interviewed for the HBO Documentary, ‘The Ghosts of Abu Ghraib’.