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2nd Annual TEW Conference

1st annual TEW conference

• The conference is sponsored by COMMET, The Center of Medical Multimedia Education Technology (COMMET), a California non-profit organization. The co-sponsors are:
• Biological Threat Mitigation
• The UCLA Berkeley Center for International Relations (BCIR)
• The UCLA International Studies and Overseas Programs (ISOP)
• The University of California Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC).
• The Infectious Disease Association of California (IDAC)
• The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department
• The Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning (TEW) Group " Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center
• The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS) - Public Health and Emergency Medical Services
• Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)

8:00 After the Fall: The Next Protocol for the Biological Weapons Convention and Syndrome Surveillance - Al Zelicoff (by live video feed) 9:00 Terrorism Early Warning; Intelligence Fusion for Bio Events - John Sullivan 10:00 Coffee Break 10:30 What is California To Do, Sandwiched Between the Feds and the Locals? - Richard Burton 11:30 The Past Offensive US Bioweapons Program - Bill Patrick 12:30 Lunch break 1:30* TEW Group Plenary Session (TEW members only) 1:30* The Role of Emergency Medical Services in Terrorism - John Celentano 2:30 How Technology Can Strengthen Community-Based Interventions - Michael Aratow and Linda Neuhauser 3:30 How Can a Hospital Possibly Prepare? - David Pegues 4:30 Video of Alvin Toffler's Thoughts about the Future recorded for the conference Closing comments - Peter Katona *joint session

 

 

 

 

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1st Global Security and the Law Conference
1-2 June 2005

RAND Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

·        Two-day conference, including plenary sessions and breakout sessions, covering emerging legal, national security, and operational issues for counter-terrorism and homeland security

·        Critical Issues: International Humanitarian Law, Military Tribunals, Enemy Aliens, National and Global Security Law, Civil-Military Interface, Comparative Legal Approaches, Operational Intelligence Issues, Technology, and Legal Access, Quarantine, and Forensic Epidemiology

·        Audience includes law enforcement and intelligence personnel; the TEW community; national security lawyers; as well as international participants with an in counter-terrorism and homeland security

·        Certified as a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Special Seminar

·        Evening reception on June 1^st, and working lunches on both June 1^st and 2^nd.

·        Published proceedings on a web site, CD and hard copy

·        See www.latewlawconference.com for additional details

Overview

In the post-9/11 world dealing with terrorism has moved from and international military and intelligence concern to an operational one for domestic law enforcement personnel.  Homeland security in an era of new terrorist threats is now a major national concern, while these threats and concerns raise a set of new challenges to the judicial and legal system.  Police and security forces must meet new threats, and deal with real concerns about constitutional and civil rights, privacy, technical access, rules of evidence, forensic analysis, and humanitarian concerns.  These are times of emerging law, as well as emerging threats and technologies.  The first LA TEW Conference brings together law enforcement and intelligence personnel, as well as national and international experts in terrorism and counter-terrorism.

Plenary Sessions

·         Legal Issues for Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security

·         Evolving National Security and Homeland Security Issues

·         Operational issues in the post 9/11 world

·         Technology and Counter-Terrorism

·         Constitutional and Civil Rights, Privacy and Counter-Terrorism

·         Emerging legal issues

Breakout Sessions

Breakout sessions have been planned to run concurrently, three at a time, covering in greater detail the legal, operational, forensic and a range of other issues for counter-terrorism and homeland security raised in the plenary sessions.  National and international experts have been invited to make presentations in these sessions, and will also engage in discussions with the audience.

Conference Schedule

Day 1  (1 June 2005)
0730-0815	Registration and Coffee  (Rand Conference Center)
0815-0830	Introductions Lt. John P. Sullivan, LA TEW & Dr. Abraham R. Wagner, Conference Co-Chairs Mr. Jack Riley, RAND Corporation Welcome Hon. Steve Cooley, LA County District Attorney
0830-0915	Plenary Session 1: Issues for Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker, Dean, McGeorge School of Law
0915-1000	Plenary Session 2: Evolving National Security and Homeland Security Issues Hon. Gary Hart, former Senator, and former co-chair Hart-Rudman Commission
1000-1015	Break
1015-1200	Breakout Session #1 1A:  Detention and Trial of Terrorist Suspects Under U.S. and International Law Prof. Paul Finkelman, University of Tulsa Law School (moderator/speaker) Prof. Katherina von Knop, Leopold-Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria Prof. Susan Herman, Brooklyn Law School Ms. Renee C. Redman, International Institute of Connecticut 1B: Forensic Epidemiology: U.S. Issues Dr. Peter Katona, UCLA Medical School (moderator) Dr. Jonathan Fielding, LA County Health Department Dr. Michael Allswede, Department of Emergency Medicine, University of Pittsburgh Dr. Richard A. Goodman, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 1C:  Operational Intelligence for Counter-Terrorism: U.S. Issues Ms. Sally Thomas, LA County District Attorney’s Office (moderator/speaker) Ms. Beverly Reid O’Connell, Assistant US Attorney, LA Mr. Mike Webb, City Attorney, Redondo Beach, CA Mr. Michael Wermuth, Rand Corporation
1200-1330	Lunch & Luncheon Speaker Mr. Jack Riley, RAND Corporation: “Racial Profiling”
1330-1410	Plenary Session 3:  Constitutional and Civil Rights, Privacy and Counter-Terrorism Prof. Susan Herman, Brooklyn Law School
1410-1415	Break
1415-1530	Breakout Session #2 2A:  Trial of Terrorists in Civilian Courts and Military Tribunals Mr. Phillip Carter, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (moderator/speaker) Mr. Phillip Sundel, Law Offices of David P. Sheldon Ms. Diane Amann, UCLA Law School 2B:  Quarantine and Isolation: Global Issues Dr. Peter Katona, UCLA Medical School (moderator/speaker) Dr. Robert Kim-Farley, LA County Department of Health Services Dr. Robert DeBell, Titan Corp 2C:  Operational Intelligence for Counter-Terrorism: Global Perspectives Lt. John P. Sullivan, LA TEW (moderator) Detective Chief Superintendent. Keith Weston, Metropolitan Police, UK Detective Chief Inspector Paul Swallow, Metropolitan Police, UK (Liaison, Paris) Staff Sergeant Robert Taylor, Royal Canadian Mounted Police Asst. Chief Bruce L. Cooke, Office of Border Patrol, Assistant Attache CBP-Ottawa, Border Patrol Attache to RCMP
1530-1545	Break
1545-1715	Breakout Session #3 3A:  Legal Access and New Technologies Mr. Neal A. Pollard, Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (moderator/speaker) Adm. Alex Miller, ret., Titan Corporation Prof. David Koepsell, SUNY Buffalo, School of Law Dr. Abraham R. Wagner, Columbia University 3B:  Rendition, Detention and Interrogation of Terrorist Suspects Mr. Phillip Carter, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (speaker/moderator) Mr. Steven Watt, American Civil Liberties Union Prof. Marty Lederman, Georgetown University Law Center 3C:  Trends in Terrorism 1: Dealing with Suicide Bombers and Others Prof. Michael Intriligator, UCLA School of Public Affairs (moderator) Dr. Anat Berko, ICT, Tel-Aviv, Israel Dr. Nasra Hasan, United Nations Crime and Drug Office, Vienna, Austria Mr. Joshua Sinai, US Department of Homeland Security, Science & Technology
1730	Reception (Rand Conference Center)

Day 2  (2 June 2005)
0800-0830	Coffee
0830-0915	Plenary Session 4: Technology and Counter-Terrorism Dr. Abraham R. Wagner, Columbia University
0915-1000	Plenary Session 5: Operational Issues in the Post 9/11 World Mr. Brian Jenkins, RAND Corporation
1000-1015	Break
1015-1200	Breakout Session #4 4A:  International Cooperation in Financial Investigation, Enforcement and Trans-Border Data Sharing Ms. Jamison Jo Medby, RAND Corporation (moderator) Mr. Greg Treverton, RAND Corporation Mr. Dale Watson, Federal Bureau of Investigation (retired) BG Annette Sobel, MD, J-2 National Guard Bureau Mr. Adrian Baciu, Interpol 4B:  Choice of Legal Regime Prof. Jack Beard, UCLA Law School (moderator) Prof. Norm Abrams, UCLA Law School Prof. Barry Kellman, DePaul University, School of Law Mr. Tom Fucht, US Department of Justice Prof. Alison Renteln, University of Southern California 4C:  Trends in Terrorism 2: Terrorist Operations in the Urban Environment Mr. Abraham R. Wagner (moderator) Col. Eran Duvdevani (Res.), ICT, Herzilya, Israel Col. Reuven Berko (Res.), Ministry of Police, Jerusalem, Israel Mr. Cliff Karchmer, Police Executive Research Forum Mr. Alex Lopez, Spanish Red Cross
1200-1330	Lunch & Luncheon Speaker Prof. Graham Allison, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University “Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe”
1330-1415	Plenary Session 6: Emerging Legal Issues Prof. Jack L. Goldsmith, Harvard Law School
1415-1530	Breakout Session #5 5A:  Emerging Legal Issues Mr. Neal A. Pollard, Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (moderator) Ms. Suzanne Spaulding, The Harbour Group LLC Prof. Robert Cottrol, George Washington University School of Law Mr. Ahilan T. Arulthan, American Civil Liberties Union Hon. Jack Weiss, Councilman, Los Angeles City Council 5B:  Comparative Terrorism Law: Case Studies Prof. Kal Raustialia, UCLA Law School (moderator) Dr. Mary Bosis, Pompandreau Center, Athens, Greece Prof. Andrew Silke, University of East London, London, UK Dr. William Rosenau, Rand Corporation 5C:  Private Military and Intelligence Companies Mr. Phillip Carter, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP (moderator) Dr. Robert J. Bunker, NLECT-West Mr. Doug Brooks, International Peace Operations Association Mr. Mark Troy, McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
1530-1545	Break
1545-1715	Plenary Session: Conference Wrap up Lt. John Sullivan, LA TEW & LA County Sheriff’s Department (moderator) Dr. Abraham R. Wagner, Columbia University Dr. Peter Katona, UCLA School of Medicine Ms. Genevieve Lester, International Institute for Strategic Studies

Co-Sponsors

 

Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group (LA TEW) National TEW Resource Center Los Angeles County Department of Health Services RAND Corporation UCLA School of Law & UCLA School of Public Affairs University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law Center of Medical Multimedia Education Technology (COMMET) Terrorism Research Center, Inc. National Law Enforcement and Corrections Technology Center-West California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training US Department of Homeland Security

Corporate Sponsors

ChoicePoint, Inc., The Titan Corporation SRA International, Inc., BAE Systems, Inc. ñ   top  ñ

 

 

 

 

 

Second Annual Conference:

Terrorism, Global Security and the Law

Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group

TEW Conference, 19-20 October 2006

Rand Corporation, Santa Monica, CA

·        Two-day conference, including plenary and breakout sessions, covering emerging legal, national security, and operational issues for counter-terrorism and homeland security

·        Critical Issues: Military Tribunals, Coercive Interrogation and Torture, Domestic Surveillance, National and Global Security Law, Civil-Military Interface, Operational Intelligence Issues, Technology, and Legal Access, Quarantine, and Forensic Epidemiology

·        Audience includes law enforcement, legal and intelligence personnel; the TEW community; as well as international experts on counter-terrorism and homeland security

·        Certified as a California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) Special Seminar

·        MCLE Credit

·        Evening reception on Oct 18^th, and working lunches on Oct 19^th & 20^th.

·        Published proceedings on CD and website

 

Conference Overview

In the post-9/11 world dealing with terrorism no longer involves just international military and intelligence concerns.  Counter-terrorism increasingly involves a number of domestic legal and operational issues.  Homeland security in an era of new terrorist threats is now a focus of national attention.  These threats – and the nation’s response to them – raise major new challenges to the legal and judicial system.  Police, security forces, local prosecutors, public health departments, and the courts must meet these threats, and deal with significant concerns about constitutional and civil rights, privacy, technical access, rules of evidence, forensic analysis, and humanitarian issues.  These are times of emerging law, as well as emerging threats and technologies.  The 2006 Conference on Terrorism, Global Security and the Law brings together legal scholars, jurists, law enforcement and intelligence personnel, as well as national and international terrorism experts to consider some of the major issues in this critical area.

Sponsored jointly by the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group (LA-TEW) and the RAND Corporation, the Conference will take place over two days, 19-20 October 2006, at the RAND facility in Santa Monica, California.  The conference program will include plenary sessions, keynote speakers, as well as breakout sessions on key topics.  As with the 2005 Conference, invited guest speakers include leading legal authorities, jurists, lawmakers, and other experts from the U.S. and abroad.  For attorneys, the Conference has been certified by the State Bar of California for CLE credit.  Conference proceedings will again be published on the Internet, as well as on CD and book form.

Conference Topics

Developing on the topics addressed in the 2005 Conference, the keynote talks, panels and breakout sessions at this year’s conference will focus on critical areas including:

·         Detention, rendition, and treatment of prisoners:  Talks will cover issues of location, such as Guantanamo and “secret prisons,” as torture, coercive interrogation, and the right to trial.

·         Presidential power and the War on Terror.  Included here are limits of Executive power and surveillance for counter-terrorism, privacy rights and the need for surveillance, intelligence collection and data-mining efforts.

·         Alien populations and the terrorist threat.  Included here are terrorist threats from large-scale illegal immigration and domestic Islamic populations.

·         Constitutional issues such as the prosecution of terrorist researchers and scholars in U.S. courts by Islamic organizations, as well as other First and Fourth Amendment issues.

·         Comparative law and policing issues; intelligence sharing and co-production.

Background of the LA-TEW and the RAND Corporation

Now completing its tenth year, the Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group (LA-TEW) is an interagency, multidisciplinary task force.  The LA County Sheriff’s Department serves as secretariat for the LA-TEW.  The LA-TEW is charged with counter-terrorism intelligence and coordination responsibilities for the greater Los Angeles area.  In addition to a “core cadre” of intelligence professionals, the LA-TEW maintains liaison with the full range of “first responders,” including police, fire, medical, military and other agencies that would be involved in the event of a terrorist attack.  In cooperation with related organizations, the LA-TEW runs regular exercises, to test capabilities against various types of terrorist attack.  As the oldest and largest TEW group in the nation, the LA-TEW serves as the model for an on-going federal effort to expand this concept to metropolitan areas in the nation.  These efforts are coordinated by the National TEW Resource Center, which is funded in part by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

Created by an act of Congress in the early days of the Cold War, the RAND Corporation, with headquarters in Santa Monica, California, is a federally-funded research and development center that has achieved wide acclaim for studies in the area of national security and other key policy areas.  In the area of counter-terrorism, RAND continues to provide expertise and assistance to the Government and counts among its staff several of the nation’s leading terrorism experts.  The new RAND Headquarters Building in Santa Monica includes a modern conference center which is an ideal venue for the Conference.

Plenary Sessions

·         Legal Issues for Counter-Terrorism and Homeland Security

·         Evolving National Security and Homeland Security Issues

·         Operational issues in the post 9/11 World

·         Technology and Counter-Terrorism

·         Constitutional and Civil Rights, Privacy and Counter-Terrorism

·         Emerging Legal Issues

·         The Intersection of Public Health, Counter-Terrorism, and Preparedness

Breakout Sessions

Breakout sessions have been planned to run concurrently, three at a time, covering in greater detail the legal, operational, forensic and a range of other issues for counter-terrorism and homeland security raised in the plenary sessions.  National and international experts have been invited to make presentations in these sessions, and will also engage in discussions with the audience.

Conference Sponsors

Los Angeles Terrorism Early Warning Group (LA TEW)

RAND Corporation

Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism (CAST)

Terrorism Research Center, Inc. (TRC)

National TEW Resource Center

New York University School of Law

USC Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE)

Syracuse University, Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT)

Center of Medical Multimedia Education and Technology (COMMET)

General Motors Corporation

Conference Program

Thursday, October 19^th

7:30 – 8:15      Registration & Coffee: RAND Corporation Conference Center

8:15 – 8:30      Introduction

Lt. John Sullivan, LA TEW

Dr. Abraham Wagner, Columbia University

Dr. Greg Treverton, RAND Corporation

8:30 – 9:00      Welcome:  Mr. Steve Cooley

Los Angeles County District Attorney

9:00 – 9:30      Keynote:  Representative Jane Harman (D–CA)

                                                House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence

9:30 – 10:45    Plenary Session 1: Surveillance and Constitutional Issues

Prof. Abraham Wagner, Columbia University

Dr. K.A. Taipale, Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy

Prof. Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School

10:45 – 11:00  Break

11:00 – 12:15  Breakout Session 1 

1A:       Counter-Terrorism: Tools and Approaches

                Moderator: Mr. Errol Southers, University of Southern California, CREATE

                Prof. Detlof von Winterfeldt, University of Southern California, CREATE

                Prof. Adam Rose, University of Southern California, CREATE

Prof. Don Kleinmuntz, University of Southern California, CREATE

                        1B:   Intelligence Sharing and Co-production

Moderator: Maj. General Annette Sobel, USAF and Sandia Laboratory

Dr. Greg Treverton, RAND

Prof. Jennifer E. Sims, Georgetown University

Prof. Amy Zegart, University of California at Los Angeles

Mr. Brent Durbin, University of California, Berkeley

12:15 – 1:30    Lunch 

                                                Speaker:  Prof. Mark Danner, University of California, Berkeley

1:30 – 3:30      Plenary Session 2: Torture, Rendition, and Detention

Mr. Scott Horton, Patterson Belknap

Prof. Rosa Brooks, Georgetown University Law Center

Mr. John Sifton, Human Rights Watch

Dr. Anat Berko, Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Israel

3:00 – 3:15      Break

3:15 – 5:30      Breakout Session 2

2A:       The Legal Landscape of Public Health Preparedness and Disaster Response

Moderator: Dr. Peter Katona, UCLA School of Medicine

Dr. Rick Goodman, Center for Disease Control

Dr. Peter Baldridge, State of California Public Health

Prof. David Fidler, Indiana University

Dr. Robert Ragland, LA County Public Health

2B:      Private Military Companies

Moderator: Mr. Phillip Carter, McKenna Long and Aldridge, LLP

Prof. Deborah Avant, George Washington University

Mr. Derek Wright, IPOA

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