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Professor to Speak about Political Power
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Wednesday, April 10, 2008 Canadian Law Professor to speak about political power in the Guantánamo Bay detainment of 15-year-old Canadian citizen Omar Khadr
Audrey Macklin, professor of law at the University of Toronto, will use the case of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr, who has been held at Guantánamo Bay since 2002, to explore mechanisms by which citizenship, territoriality, and jurisdiction are used to exercise legally authorized political power. The talk will take place on Thursday, April 24, at 3:30 pm in 500 Hall of Languages. Khadr, who was 15 years old in 2002 when he was apprehended, is the only remaining citizen of a western state and NATO ally detained in Guantánamo Bay. The conditions of detention and the legal framework governing the treatment of detainees at Guantánamo Bay have been criticized inside and outside the United States as violations of international human rights, international humanitarian law, US military law, the US Constitution, and the rule of law. Macklin holds law degrees from Yale University and the University of Toronto. She has also served as a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board in Canada. Macklin’s research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights. The talk is sponsored by the Gender and Globalization Initiative and the Department of Geography at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, and is free to the public. # # # The Maxwell School
of Syracuse University is the premier academic institution in the United
States committed to scholarship, civic leadership, and education in public and
international affairs. Maxwell is home to Syracuse University’s social science
departments and to numerous nationally recognized multidisciplinary graduate
programs in public policy, international studies, social policy, and conflict
resolution. Maxwell's graduate program in public administration -- the first of
its kind in the nation -- is ranked consistently the leading graduate public
affairs program in the country.
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