Is A Judge's Gavel America's Secret Weapon In The War on Terror???
[author:Noah Heber Public time:Oct 8, 2007] |
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The course will first compare Jewish and American law on aiding-and-abetting and then analyze the application of the aiding-and-abetting principles to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1990. The case of David Boim—which the Lewins initiated and which recently resulted in a very significant jury verdict – claimed damages fro the killing of a 17-year-old American citizen in Israel by Hamas terrorists. The verdict represents the first time U.S. based charities have been held civilly liable for aiding-and-abetting terror and is now an important precedent for post 9/11 lawsuits.
IAT Law primarily provides entertaining CLE seminars for attorneys; however, this program can be useful for all those with an eye on the challenges facing the United States in the post-9/11 world. This seminar will educate people on how the law is being used to fight terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas from Nathan Lewin, one of this field's pioneers.
Nathan Lewin, who has engaged in trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts for 40 years. While he was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice under Solicitors General Archibald Cox and Thurgood Marshall, he argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court for the United States. Since entering private practice he has argued in the Supreme Court another 15 times, for a total of 27 arguments in the Supreme Court. His Supreme Court cases have included the representation of banks and other commercial interests as well as criminal cases and issues of constitutional law. Mr. Lewin was law clerk to Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1961) and to Associate Justice John M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States (1961-1962). Mr. Lewin also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and before that as Deputy Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs at the Department of State. On leaving government service, Mr. Lewin was a founding partner of Miller Cassidy Larroca and Lewin, which was one of the nation's foremost litigation "boutiques" for more than thirty years.
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