Beyond Guantánamo: Restoring the Rule of Law to the Law of War

The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), affiliated with the Annenberg Public Policy Center at Penn, is a non-partisan interdisciplinary institute dedicated to preserving and promoting ethics and the rule of law in national security, warfare, and democratic governance. CERL draws from the study of law, philosophy, and ethics to answer the difficult questions that arise in domestic and transnational crises and conflicts.

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A Report Recommending Closing the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility

National Press Club

<p>Twenty-one years after the 9/11 attacks, the Guantánamo Bay (GTMO) detention facility at the U.S. naval base in Cuba remains in operation at an annual cost of $540 million. The delay in shuttering the prison has deferred justice for the families of the 9/11 victims and the detainees alike. A site of torture and degrading treatment of detainees, GTMO continues to tarnish the real and perceived commitment of the United States to the rule of law and to compromise U.S. alliances abroad. </p><p>The Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL), in partnership with the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) of the University of Pennsylvania, convened a Working Group in June 2021 to develop a legal blueprint for closing the detention facility. The group comprises over thirty national security and counterterrorism experts, including GTMO prosecutors and defense lawyers, retired military officers, former Department of Justice officials, psychologists, psychiatrists, academics, ethicists, and experts in the law of war.</p><p>Join us on September 12 from 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. Eastern Time for a panel discussion with members of the Working Group and other distinguished speakers to launch a new report detailing their findings. This report also reinforces and reiterates the 13 recommendations first released by the Working Group in Jan. 2022 calling for specific action from the executive branch and Congress.</p><p>A cocktail reception will follow.</p><h2>Welcome</h2><h3>David Joanson</h3><p>Executive Director, CERL</p><h2>Introductory Remarks</h2><h3>Morton H. Halperin</h3><p>Chair of the Executive Board, CERL</p><h2>Moderator </h2><h3>Claire Finkelstein</h3><p>Co-Chair of the Working Group; Algernon Biddle Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy; CERL Faculty Director, University of Pennsylvania</p><h2>Panelists</h2><h3>General John Altenburg</h3><p>Contributing Author of the Working Group; former Acting Judge Advocate General, U.S. Army; first President and Convening Authority for the Guantánamo Military Commissions</p><h3>Mark Fallon</h3><p>Working Group Consultant; Former Naval Criminal Investigative Service, Deputy Assistant Director and Chief Investigator for the Guantánamo Military Commissions; CERL Advisory Council member</p><h3>Colleen Kelly</h3><p>Cofounder, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows</p><h3>Alberto Mora</h3><p>Contributing Author of the Working Group; Immediate past Director, American Bar Association Global Rule of Law Initiative; former General Counsel of the Department of the Navy; CERL Executive Board member </p><h3>Harvey Rishikof</h3><p>Co-Chair of the Working Group; Former Convening Authority for the Guantánamo Military Commissions; Visiting Professor, Temple Law School; CERL Executive Board member</p>

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