On July 26, 2006, ACS hosted a panel to explore issues surrounding the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.  The Court addressed issues surrounding ad hoc military commissions to try detainees; the application of the Geneva Conventions, and particularly Common Article 3.  More broadly, the Court noted that “the Executive is bound to comply with the Rule of Law that prevails in this jurisdiction.” 

From left to right, panelists included:

• Moderator Catherine Powell, Co-Faculty Director, Joseph R. Crowley International Human Rights Program and Associate Professor of Law, Fordham Law School
• Walter S. Dellinger, O’Melveny & Myers LLP; former U.S. Solicitor General; former head of Office of Legal Counsel
• David B. Rivkin, Jr., Baker Hostetler LLP; former Deputy Director of the Office of Legal Policy in the U.S. Department of Justice and Associate Counsel to the President in the Reagan and the George W. Bush Administration
• Hardy Vieux, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP; Secretary-Treasurer, National Institute of Military Justice