ACS Speaker Series 2007: David Cole
The research of Georgetown University law professor David Cole focuses on a big question:
why is America "losing" the war on terror? His visits is part of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
speaker series.
An award-winning author and speaker, Cole's book Less Safe, Less Free is a critique of the Bush administration's "preventive paradigm" in the war on terror. Cole is a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights; the legal affairs correspondent for The Nation; a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books; and a commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered."
He is also author of Enemy Aliens, which received the American Book Award in 2004, and No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System, which was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999 by the Boston Book Review, and Best Book on an Issue of National Policy in 1999 by the American Political Science Association.
Indiana Law and the ACS
The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy is a leading progressive legal group comprised of law students, lawyers, scholars, judges, policy makers, activists, and other concerned individuals working to ensure that the fundamental principles of human dignity, individual rights and liberties, genuine equality, and access to justice are in their rightful, central place in American law.
Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington's ACS chapter is award-winning and one of the nation's largest. Professor Dawn Johnsen, an expert in constitutional law, sponsors the group and helps students bring events such as debates, forums, and visits by nationally renowned speakers to campus throughout the year.
Want to know more? Check out Indiana Law's constitutional law courses and ground breaking reform efforts by the Center for Constitutional Democracy in Plural Societies, led by Indiana Law professors.