2008 Press Releases
21.04.2008
"How the US can lose the War on Terror" is the title of a public seminar to be held in UCC on Wednesday next, April 23rd.
Hosted by the Centre for Criminal Justice & Human Rights (CCJHR) at UCC, the seminar will hear presentations by John D. Hutson, President and Dean, Franklin Pierce Law Centre, NH, US, (Rear Admiral and JAGC US Navy (retd) and Fiona De Londras, College Lecturer, Centre for Criminal Justice and Human Rights, UCC.
John D. Hutson is President and Dean of the Franklin Pierce Law Centre, 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 US 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 US 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'.
Fiona De Londras is a College Lecturer at the Faculty of Law UCC. She has held visiting positions in the British Institute of International and Comparative Law, Emory University, USA, and the University of Peshawar, Pakistan. She has published widely on the habeas corpus rights of Guantanamo Bay detainees including in the Modern Law Review, Israel Law Review, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, and Netherlands International Law Review.
The seminar takes place at 6pm in the Council Room, North Wing, UCC. All welcome. Visit http://www.ucc.ie/en/ccjhr/events
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