My friend Michael Innes at CTLab sends word that they are hosting an online symposium this week relating to Salim Hamdan, with a particular focus on the experience of historian Brian Glyn Williams as an expert witness for the defense at his trial. CTLab is a very interesting blog, and this promises to be a very fruitful exchange. From the sponsors description:
I'd like to draw your attention to a symposium entitled "Defending Hamdan", starting tomorrow and lasting until the following Friday. It is being conducted through the weblog of The Complex Terrain Laboratory, at http://www.terraplexic.org./review.
The symposium is CTlab's first, and is the first in a series entitled Social Sciences in War. This symposium revolves around the personal account of Dr. Brian Glyn Williams, an historian of Central Asia and Al Qaeda based at the University of Massachussetts, Dartmouth, of his experiences as an expert witness in the Guantanamo Bay trial of Salim Hamdan, "bin Laden's driver."
I'm pleased to announce that the following scholars, based in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, will be participating in the symposium.
David Betz (Insurgency Research Group, Dept. of War Studies, King's College London)
Christian Bleuer (Political Science, Australian National University)
John Matthew Barlow (History, Concordia University)
Craig Hayden (Int'l Communications, American University)
Kevin Jon Heller (Law, University of Auckland/University of Melbourne)
John Horgan (Psychology, Pennsylvania State University)
Thomas Johnson (Cultural Studies, Naval Postgraduate School)
Jason Ralph (Politics & International Studies, University of Leeds)
William Snyder (Law, University of Syracuse/Maxwell School)
Marc Tyrrell (Anthropology, Carleton University)
Tony Waters (Sociology, Chico State University)
L.L. Wynn, (Anthropology, Macquarie University)
The first four installments of Dr. Williams' account have already been posted to the weblog, at the following URLs:
The Capture and Defense of Bin Laden's Drive
On Ruffling Establishment Feathers
Letter and Spirit of the Law
Digging Deeper for the Defense
The fifth and final installment will be posted early tomorrow (UK/Europe time) after which the symposium will be formally launched with two introductory blog posts, one providing the background and outlines of the symposium, the other surveying coverage of the Hamdan trial in the law blogosphere.
We're looking forward to what promises to be an interesting conversation. Please disseminate news of this widely - we'd very much appreciate any awareness raising you might do to ensure that this project receives plenty of exposure and readership.
Best regards
Mike Innes
Michael A. Innes
Research and Practice Associate
Institute for National Security and Counter-Terrorism
College of Law/Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, United States
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Visiting Research Fellow
School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)
University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, United Kingdom
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E-Mail: M.Innes@leeds.ac.uk
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