Welcome/Introduction:
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Dean Robert Rawson Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
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Robert N. Strassfeld Associate Director Frederick K. Cox International Law Center Director Institute for Global Security Law and Policy Case Western Reserve University School of Law |
Friday October 23, 2009
9:00 a.m.-4:00 p.m.
Moot Court Room
Sponsored by the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Presented with support from the U.S. District Court,
Northern District of Ohio, Attorney Outreach Grant
We live in an age of pervasive surveillance that tests traditional understandings of the right to privacy and of Fourth Amendment limitations on government intrusion into our private lives. One obvious impetus for this trend is the heightened sense of insecurity that we feel since September 11, 2001, which has caused us to rethink the proper balance between liberty and security. National security concerns are not the only forces that have driven increased surveillance. For example, government oversight of eligibility for such entitlements as Medicaid, food stamps, and student loans has produced more efficient and pervasive data collection in recent years. Law enforcement has also availed itself of new surveillance technologies and techniques. Coupled with the growing demand for information, technological innovation at an ever increasing pace greatly enhances the ability of governments and private actors to collect, store, and use personal information in ways that were not contemplated by the framers of the U.S. Constitution.
The symposium brings together leading scholars and practitioners to explore a number of issues that arise for lawyers and policy makers out of the increasing impetus toward surveillance. The primary, but not exclusive focus, is on surveillance in the national security context, but because surveillance is relevant to many areas of law practice this symposium should be of broad interest to a wide variety of lawyers including those who deal with government entitlements, with privacy claims, with criminal prosecution and defense, as well as those who work in the area of national security law or in areas that are peripheral to national security law, such as immigration lawyers. It should also be of interest to anyone who has an interest, whether professional or otherwise, in the broad policy questions raised by our need to balance security with privacy.
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