Presidential Power in an Age of Terror
IU Center for Law, Society, & Culture 2007 Spring Symposium
April 5, 2007
4 p.m.
Moot Court Room (123)
Indiana University School of Law
211 South Indiana Avenue
Bloomington, Indiana
Indiana University Center for Law, Society, and Culture presents its spring 2007 symposium: "Presidential Power in an Age of Terror," addressing current debates about presidential power in the United States. IU political science professor William Scheuerman delivers the main address, "Presidentialism and Emergency Powers After 9/11." Bloomington professors Dawn Johnson, law, and Nick Cullather, history, will offer commentaries, and the symposium will conclude with an audience discussion.
Symposium Presenters
William Scheuerman's primary research and teaching interests are in modern political thought, German political thought, democratic theory, legal theory, and normative international theory. He is and editor and the author of Between the Norm and the Exception: the Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law (MIT, 1994), Carl Schmitt: the End of Law (Rowman & LIttlefield, 1999), Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time (Johns Hopkins, 2004). In addition to publishing in many professional journals, and he is co-director of an annual international conference for critical theorists held in Prague.
Dawn Johnson is a professor of law at the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington, where she teaches and writes about issues of constitutional law. She served in the U.S. Department of Justice under President Bill Clinton (1993-1998), including as Acting Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Counsel in which capacity she headed the office that provides constitutional and other legal advice to the Executive Branch (including the Attorney General, the Counsel to the President, and the general counsels of the various executive branch agencies). From 1988-1993, she was the legal director of the National Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (now NARAL Pro-Choice America). She also worked at the American Civil Liberties Union Reproductive Freedom Project, clerked for Judge Richard D. Cudahy of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, and is a graduate of Yale Law School. She serves on the national board of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and as co-chair of its Separation of Powers/Federalism issue group.
Nick Cullather is associate professor of history at Indiana University. He was formerly press secretary to Congressman Lee H. Hamilton and staff historian at the Central Intelligence Agency. He is author of Illusions of Influence: The Political Economy of United States-Philippines Relations (1994) and Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of its Operations in Guatemala, 1952-1954 (1999 and 2006), as well as co-author of Making a Nation (2004), a US history textbook.
Contact
Michael GrossbergProfessor and Co-Director of the Center on Law, Society, & Culture
(812) 855-3882
grossber@indiana.edu