Thomas Jefferson Examines Guantanamo
By DOUG SHERWIN, The Daily Transcript
Tuesday September 19, 2006
Thomas Jefferson School of Law's Center for Law and Social Justice will host a Guantánamo teach-in entitled, "A Prison Beyond the Law: How Should We Respond to the Problem of Guantánamo Bay" on Oct. 5. The event, co-sponsored by the National Lawyers Guild's TJSL Student Chapter, will be held from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the law school's Courtyard Building, room 100.
Students and faculty from the California Western School of Law and the USD School of Law have been invited to participate.
More than 200 schools in 44 states will be participating nationwide. The event will feature a simulcast presentation from Seton Hall School of Law and on-site luncheon speakers Marjorie Cohn, a Thomas Jefferson professor and president-elect of the National Lawyer's Guild, and David Blair-Loy, legal director for the ACLU Foundation of San Diego and Imperial counties.
Thomas Jefferson is billing this event as an opportunity to examine Guantánamo with the help of experts drawn from the legal and medical professions, the world of journalism and the clergy.
For more information, contact Thomas Jefferson professor Susan Bisom-Rapp, who is the director of the Center for Law and Social Justice, at susanb@tjsl.edu. The teach-in Web site, including the event program and the list of participating schools, is law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/.