THE OWEN J. ROBERTS LECTURE: THE NATIONAL SECURITY CONSTITUTION IN AN AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
MONDAY, September 15, 2008, 5:30 P.M.
Free. Reservations Required. Please call 215.409.6700 or order online. .
Annenberg
Center
for Education and Outreach
Kirby Auditorium
National Constitution Center
Independence Mall
525 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA
The National Constitution Center and the University of Pennsylvania Law School welcome Harold Koh, the Dean of Yale Law School, to deliver the 51st Annual Owen J. Roberts Memorial Lecture, “The National Security Constitution in an Age of Globalization.”
Nearly two decades ago, in his award-winning book The National Security Constitution: Sharing Power After the Iran-Contra Affair, Dean Koh described a systemic dysfunction of our constitutional system for dealing with national security issues. He argued that throughout its history, America has operated under a ‘National Security Constitution,’ a constitutionally defined national security process that views the administration of foreign affairs and national security as a power shared among the president, Congress, and the courts. During our Nation's history, he argued, this constitutional vision has been repeatedly challenged by executive branch overreaching, placing in jeopardy this vision of constitutional balance. Drawing upon his experience as a government lawyer and policymaker, scholar of constitutional and national security law, and human rights expert, Dean Koh's 2008 Owen Roberts Lecture examines the current state of the National Security Constitution in an age of globalization, seven years after September 11 and only weeks before an historic presidential election.
Harold Hongju Koh is Dean of Yale Law School and Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law. He began teaching at Yale Law School in 1985, and has served since 2004 as its fifteenth Dean. From 1998 to 2001, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. Before joining Yale, he practiced law at Covington and Burling and at the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice. Dean Koh is a leading expert on international law and a prominent advocate of human and civil rights.
The Roberts Lecture Series is presented by the University of Pennsylvania Law School with an endowment from the law firm of Montgomery McCracken LLP and is supported by the Pennsylvania Chapter of the Order of the Coif and The Law Alumni Society of Penn Law. The Owen J. Roberts Lecture Series was established in 1957 to honor Owen J. Roberts, an 1895 Graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and an 1898 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Roberts was a former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School from 1948 to1952.
This program has been approved for one hour of substantive law credit for Pennsylvania lawyers and may be likewise approved for other jurisdictions. For CLE credit please bring a check made out to The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in the amount of $25.
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For reservations, please call 215.409.6700 or order online. Programs at the National Constitution Center begin promptly and latecomers may not be admitted to the program. Please note that this program is subject to change.
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