Press Release: What’s At Stake In The Torture Debate?

Panel at MSU College of Law on the torture debate, 7:00 pm, June 23, 2009

Press contacts: Catherine Grosso (517) 432-6962, Ken Harrow (517) 803-8839, Erick Williams (517) 373-3291 or (517) 336-5921
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What: Panel presentation, “What is at Stake in the Torture Debate?”

When: 7:00 pm, Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Where: Michigan State University College of Law, Castle Board Room, 3rd Floor

Who: The MSU College of Law will host presentations by experts on issues concerning the current torture debate; the panel will discuss the legal and human rights ramifications of that debate. All are welcome.
The two presenters are:

Catherine Grosso, MSU Assistant Professor of Law, former coordinator of Birzeit University’s Human Rights Action Project

Susan Waltz, Professor of Public Policy, University of Michigan, former chair of Amnesty International’s International Executive Committee
In addition, a panel will respond to the presentations and to questions from the audience: Dorean Koenig, Professor, Cooley Law School & member of the drafting committee for the International Criminal Court statute, and Sudanese artist Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed, Torture Abolition & Survivors Support Coalition, www.tassc.org/. Erick Williams of the American Civil Liberties Union Lansing Branch will moderate the event.

This event is free and open to the public. It is intended to contribute to our understanding of issues surrounding the current debate on torture. Michigan State University College of Law will host the panel, which is sponsored by the Greater Lansing Network Against War and Injustice, www.glnawi.org; Amnesty International Group 81; the Peace Education Center, www.PeaceEdCenter.org; and the Lansing Branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

The MSU Law School is west of the traffic circle at Shaw and Bogue Streets in East Lansing. Shaw parking ramp does not charge for visitor parking after 6:00 pm.