October 23, 2003
Media Advisory
USA PATRIOT Act coauthor opens
LBJ School's War
on Terror series
EVENT: An address by USA PATRIOT Act coauthor Viet Dinh, titled "Order & Liberty: Combating Terrorism to Protect Freedom and Promote Peace."
WHEN: 7 p.m., Wednesday, October 29, 2003. Dinh’s 30-minute lecture will be followed by a question and answer session.
WHERE: Bass Lecture Hall, LBJ School of Public Affairs, UT Austin, 2315 Red River Street.
BACKGROUND: A former assistant attorney general at the U.S. Department of Justice, Dinh will argue that the USA PATRIOT Act has been successful in combating the War on Terror. One of the main authors of the act, Dinh teaches constitutional law at Georgetown University. He is the author of Reassessing the Law of Preemption (2000) and Races, Crime, and the Law (1998).
This is the first event in the fall 2003 War on Terror Series organized by General Montgomery Meigs, a leading military analyst who holds the Distinguished Visiting Tom Slick Professorship of World Peace at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
Endowed from the estate of the late Tom Slick of San Antonio, the Slick Professorship provides support for a continuing program of research, graduate education and public enlightenment related to world peace. Previous Tom Slick Professors have included Gunnar and Alva Myrdal and Brian Urquhart.
2003 Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
P.O. Box Y
Austin, TX 78713-8925
512-471-4962
23 October 2003
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