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TLR Symposium 2010

Agenda

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Thursday February 4th  
7:00-9:30 Opening reception, dinner, and keynote address

Michael McConnell (former Director of National Intelligence, currently Executive Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton)

Friday February 5th  
7:30 Students arrive at Radisson to pick up guests and deliver them to the UT Club
8:00-8:30 Continental breakfast
8:30-8:35

Welcome

Dean Larry Sager and Robert Chesney (University of Texas)

8:35-9:45

Panel 1: National security, privacy, and technology (I)

Moderator: William Banks (Syracuse)
Lisa Graves (Center for Media and Democracy)
Ben Wittes (Brookings)
Nicholas Patterson (National Security Division, DOJ)

9:45-10:30

Remarks

Shane Harris (National Journal, Author of The Watchers: The Rise of America’s Surveillance State)

10:30-10:40 Break

10:40-11:50

Panel 2: National security, privacy, and technology (II)

Moderator: Lisa Graves (Center for Media and Democracy)
Nathan Sales (George Mason)
Alex Joel (Civil Liberties Protection Officer, ODNI)

11:50-1:00

Lunch and remarks

Jameel Jaffer (ACLU)

1:00-2:15

Panel 3: Investigations

Moderator: Robert Chesney (University of Texas)
Orin Kerr (George Washington)
Paul Ohm (Colorado)
Samuel Rascoff (NYU)

2:15-3:15

Panel 4: Technology Policy

Moderator & participant: Ken Flamm (LBJ School of Public Policy, University of Texas)
Jim Simon (Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Government)
Fred Chang (Department of Computer Science, University of Texas)

3:15-3:30 Break

3:30-4:45

Panel 5: Accountability mechanisms

Moderator: Sandy Levinson (University of Texas)
Steve Vladeck (American University)
John Radsan (William Mitchell)
Jon Michaels (UCLA)
Heidi Kitrosser (Minnesota)

4:45-5:15

Remarks

Admiral Bobby Inman (former Director of NSA and currently interim Dean of the LBJ School of Public Policy)

5:15 -7:00 Open
7:00-9:00

Reception, dinner, and keynote address at the Driskill Hotel

David Kris (Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division, DOJ)

Saturday February 6th  
8:00 Students arrive at Radisson to pick up guests and deliver them to the Thompson Conference Center
8:15-8:45 Continental breakfast
8:45-9:15

Remarks

Kim Taipale (Executive Director, Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy)

9:15-10:30

Panel 6: Focus on FISA

Moderator: Eric Greenwald (Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence) Matt Anzaldi & Jonathan Gannon (DOJ NSD)
William Banks (Syracuse)
Ben Powell (former general counsel, ODNI) 

10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15

Panel 7: Cybersecurity and network operations

Moderator: Ben Powell (former general counsel, ODNI) 

Colonel Guillermo R. Carranza (Staff Judge Advocate, 24th Air Force)
Eric Jensen (Fordham)
Sean Kanuck (International Attorney and Senior Intelligence Analyst)
Eric Greenwald (Chief Counsel, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence)

 

12:15-1:15

Lunch and remarks

Stewart Baker (former Assistant Secretary for Policy, DHS) 

1:15-1:30 Break
1:30-2:15

Remarks

Jeffrey Rosen (George Washington University) 

2:15-4:00

Roundtable discussion: The media’s role today

Moderator: David Anderson (University of Texas)
Judge Robert D. Sack (Second Circuit Court of Appeals)
Michael Isikoff (Newsweek)
Mark Mazzetti (New York Times)
Ellen Nakashima (Washington Post)
Ari Shapiro (NPR)
Marc Ambinder (Politics Editor, The Atlantic Monthly)

4:00 We’re done.  Stay and enjoy Austin, or have a safe trip back to your home!  There are no symposium-related events planned for the evening, but we’re happy to advise you on things to do in Austin that night  (see www.billsmap.com for the musical offerings, for example)!