May 15, 2003
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A. and
Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
are proud to announce our
Human Rights and National Security Speaker Series
Lecture #1:
The "Disappeared" in the War Against Terrorism:
Detention, Due Process and the Right to a Lawyer
presented by
Joe Margulies, Margulies & Richman, PLC
Thursday, May 15, 2003, 12:00-1:00 P.M.
at
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
4000 Pillsbury Center
200 South Sixth Street
Minneapolis, MN
Joe Margulies, attorney for several detainees at Camp Delta in Guantanamo Bay, will provide his observations about the categories of persons detained since September 11th, their conditions of detention, and their rights under U.S. and international law. He will also describe the pending litigation that contests the legality and conditions of their detention. CLE credit will be applied for. Complimentary lunch will be provided to those who have pre-registered.
Biographical Information
Joseph Margulies received his B.A., with honors, from Cornell University in 1982, and his J.D., cum laude, from Northwestern University School of Law in 1988. After clerking for a federal judge in Chicago, Margulies joined the staff of the Texas Capital Resource Center, where he represented men and women on Texas’ death row, eventually becoming Senior Staff Attorney. In 1994, Margulies moved to Minneapolis, where he worked for two years as a Staff Attorney with the Minnesota Legal Rights Center. In 1996, he entered private practice, and is now a principal in the firm of Margulies & Richman, PLC, specializing in criminal defense and civil rights litigation. Along with lawyers from the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, Margulies is also counsel in Rasul et al. v. Bush et al., filed in Washington, D.C., on behalf of four detainees held in Guantanamo Bay. Margulies writes and lectures widely on capital and criminal defense, as well as civil liberties in the wake of September 11.
This is the first event in a new series of lunchtime lectures on human rights in a post-September 11th world. The speaker series will be held on the third Thursday of each month throughout 2003. All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Megan at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights. You may find directions to Fredrikson & Byron at: www.fredlaw.com/contact.htm
Please R.S.V.P. to Megan Powers at Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights
by noon on Tuesday, May 13th
Phone: (612) 341-3302 ext. 112 • Email: mpowers@mnadvocates.org
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