A New Film Created in Collaboration with the University of Maryland School of Law and Venable LLP

Based on the Actual Transcripts of the Guantanamo Military Tribunals

Shortlisted for the 2010 Academy Awards

Winner of the 2009 ABA Silver Gavel Award for best of the year in Drama & Literature

Screened at the Pentagon, the Department of Justice and the French Embassy

PANELISTS:

Actor KATE MULGREW (Star Trek: Voyager, The Black Donnellys)

Actor PETER RIEGERT(Animal House, Crossing Delancey, Local Hero, The Sopranos)

Writer/Producer SIG LIBOWITZ
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ANDREW KENT
Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

MARTHA RAYNER
Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School

KAREN ROTHENBERG
Marjorie Cook Professor of Law, University of Maryland School of Law

FORDHAM LAW COSPONSORS:
Forum on Law, Culture & Society | Leitner Center for International Law and Justice | Philip D. Reed Chair

Please register for this event here.

Lisa Magarrell will speak on the question of U.S. accountability for the Bush Administration's torture policy and other abuses of detainees in U.S. counterterrorism operations. Focusing on the importance of revealing the truth about abuses, prosecuting those most responsible, and providing redress to victims, she will discuss the challenges of accountability in this context. More information about the ICTJ's U.S. Accountability Project can be found at www.ictj.org.

Lisa Magarrell is the Senior Associate in charge of U.S. Programs at the International Center for Transitional Justice, and served as an advisor to the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation process. Since joining the ICTJ in 2001, she has worked on reparations issues in relation to a number of countries, including Ghana, Guatemala, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Timor-Leste, and in connection with the Trust Fund for Victims of the International Criminal Court. She has been engaged in human rights work in the United States and internationally since 1979.