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INTERNATIONAL LAW, TERRORISM EXPERT TO SPEAK |
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March 26, 2008
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The Foundation for the Defense of Democracies will bring Gregory S. McNeal, visiting professor of law at Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson School of Law, to Grove City College on March 31. McNeal’s lecture, “Current Issues Related to the Guantanamo Prosecutions,” will be at 7 p.m. in the Technological Learning Center Auditorium and is free and open to the public.
McNeal has studied Guantanamo prosecutions extensively and has advised the staff of Congressional committees and members of Congress on counterterrorism policy. He also helped to write legislation for members of the U.S. House of Representatives. McNeal serves on multiple working groups related to counterterrorism and international law. He was one of two American academics invited by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs to participate in an International Experts Workshop. McNeal serves as an academic fellow with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and has been quoted by the “New York Times” and the Associated Press.
Previously, McNeal served as an officer in the U.S. Army and as a fellow at the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy. In law school he was executive editor on the Symposium Edition of “The Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy.”
A Washington, D.C. based think tank, the Foundation for the Defense for the Defense of Democracies conducts research on international terrorism and produces independent analyses of global terrorist threats. For more information on the foundation, visit www.defenddemocracy.org or contact Bill McCarthy at bill@defenddemocracy.org or (202) 207-0190.
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