[NukeNet] FW: [NYTr] Law & Resistance The Republic in Crisis & the People's Response Nov 20, Chicago

[Boyle, Francis]

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Law and Resistance: 

The Republic in Crisis and the People's Response

featuring

Prof. Francis Boyle, 
University of Illinois College of Law, and

Bill Goodman,
Center for Constitutional Rights (former Executive Director)

Tuesday, November 20, 2007 - 6 p.m.

Northwestern University School of Law
Lincoln Auditorium
357 E. Chicago Avenue

Sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild, Northwestern University Student
Law School chapter and Chicago Chapter of the NLG 

312-913-0039
http://www.nlgchicago.org 
contact at nlgchicago.org 

Prof. Francis Boyle teaches law at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally-recognized expert in
international law and human rights. His latest book, Protesting Power:
War, Resistance and Law, offers legal information and political insight
to those who resist illegitimate power and will be available at this
event. "In this expert and lucid manual, international lawyer Francis
Boyle focuses his attention on civil resistance, a category that he
distinguishes sharply from civil disobedience. Civil resistance, he
persuasively argues, is a 'basic right' of American citizens under
international and domestic law, as 'it is the civil resisters who are
the sheriffs and that the U.S. government officials committing state
crimes are the outlaws.' The historical and legal analysis provide
information and understanding of inestimable value to all citizens who
care about their country."  -Noam Chomsky 

Bill Goodman led the Center for Constitutional Rights, the leading
international human rights and humanitarian law litigation project in
the U.S., into its early and sharp challenges to the Bush regime's "War
on Terror." Under his leadership, CCR took the lead in organizing
defense of Guantanamo detainees and transforming the political discourse
on what has been described as a "law-free zone" and continuing attacks
on fundamental rights, such as habeas corpus. Bill Goodman is the author
of many articles critical of U.S. violations of human rights at home and
around the world. He recently returned from New York to his home,
Detroit, where he continues his lifelong commitment to public-interest
law.
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