Milbank associate Erik L. Wilson (Litigation & Arbitration), who chairs the New York City Bar’s Military Affairs & Justice Committee, will moderate a panel, “Justice in Our Time: Faster and Fairer Solutions to the Military Commissions at Guantánamo Bay,” on May 8, 2018 in New York City.
Expert panelists Ashika Singh, former Attorney-Advisor, Office of the Legal Advisor, U.S. Department of State; Debevoise & Plimpton LLP; Michel Paradis, Senior Attorney, Military Commissions Defense Office; Adjunct Professor of Law, Columbia Law School and Georgetown Law School; Jonathan Hafetz, Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law; Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Center for Democracy; Editor, The Guantanamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law (NYU Press 2009) and Obama’s Guantanamo: Stories from an Enduring Prison (NYU Press 2016); and Nicholas Lewin, former SDNY terrorism prosecutor; trial counsel for U.S. v. Usama bin Laden et al.; U.S. v. Sulaiman Abu Ghayth (Usama bin Laden’s son-in-law); original member, Guantánamo Review Task Force; Krieger Kim & Lewin LLP, will discuss the current state of the Commissions and debate whether alternative solutions may provide better results than the current Commissions structure.
