VANCOUVER– David Cole, Georgetown Law Center professor, legal correspondent for The Nation, and a contributor to the New York Review of Books and NPR’s All Things Considered, will speak at 6 p.m., Feb. 27 in the Washington State University Vancouver Administration building, Lecture Hall 110.
Cole will present, “Enemy Aliens and Constitutional Freedoms: How Double Standards Have Undermined Our Liberty, Our Character and Our Security in the War on Terror,” from 6 to 7 p.m., with a reception and book signing 7 to 8:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
Seating is limited to 200 people, so registration is required online at https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/events/davidcole/.
Cole has been called “one of the country’s great legal voices for civil liberties today” by New York Times columnist and Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Lewis.
The author of three books on terrorism, civil liberties and criminal justice, Cole has also litigated constitutional challenges to many of the Bush administration’s initiatives in the “war on terror.” He will argue that in responding to 9/11, the Bush administration has exploited illegitimate double standards, imposing obligations on foreign nationals that would be unacceptable if imposed on the citizenry and that, in doing so, has undermined not only foreign nationals’ rights, but our principles, our rights and our security.
For more information, visit https://www.vancouver.wsu.edu/events/davidcole/.
