Attorney and author David Cole
will speak on “Enemy Aliens and American Freedoms: Double Standards and
Civil Liberties in the War on Terror” Tuesday, May 11, at 4 p.m. in Reamer Campus Center Auditorium.
Cole is a professor at Georgetown
University Law Center,
a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights, the legal
affairs correspondent for The Nation, and a commentator on National
Public Radio's All Things Considered. He is an expert on constitutional
law, criminal procedure, civil liberties and national security, and immigration
law.
A graduate of Yale
University and Yale
Law School,
he has litigated many First Amendment cases, including Texas v. Johnson and
United States v. Eichman, which extended First Amendment protection to
flag-burning. He has represented the “Los Angeles
8” for sixteen years, and has also represented numerous Arab and Muslim immigrants
against whom the INS sought to use secret evidence.
The American Lawyer named Cole one
of the top 45 public sector lawyers in the country under 45. New York Times
columnist Anthony Lewis has called him “one of the country's great legal
voice for civil liberties today,” and former CIA Director James Woolsey
has called Cole's new book, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional
Freedoms in the War on Terrorism (2003), “the essential book in the
field.” Cole's first book, No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the
American Criminal Justice System, was named Best Non-Fiction Book of 1999
by the Boston Book Review, best book on an issue of national policy in 1999 by
the American Political Science Association, and awarded the Alpha Sigma Nu
prize from the Jesuit Honor Society in 2001.
Cole's talk is sponsored by the
American Studies Program and the Minerva Committee.
For more information, call ext. 6787.