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  • Equal Rights Amendment Symposium 2018

    In a discussion organized by the Brennan Center for Justice with the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, experts and activists examined the renewed push for ratification of the ERA.
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    • October 8, 2019
  • New York City Police Department Surveillance Technology

    The New York Police Department (NYPD) has purchased and used new surveillance technologies while attempting to keep the public and the City Council in the dark. This chart provides an overview of the NYPD’s surveillance technology, based on publicly available information, as well as the potential impact of the use of these tools.
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    • October 4, 2019
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with Hina Shamsi

    Hina Shamsi is the Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s National Security Project. She previously served as Senior Advisor to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions. She is the author of Command’s Responsibility: Detainee Deaths In U.S. Custody In Iraq And Afghanistan (Human Rights First, 2006).
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    • June 27, 2014
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr.

    Frederick A.O. “Fritz” Schwarz, Jr. is Chief Counsel of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School and Senior Counsel at Cravath, Swaine and Moore. From 1975–76, Schwarz served as the Chief Counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Government Activities with Respect to Intelligence Activities, better known as the “Church Committee,” after its Chairman, Senator Frank Church.
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    • August 19, 2014
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with Babak Pasdar

    Babak Pasdar, President and CEO of Bat Blue Networks, is an information technology security expert. In 2008 Pasdar reported his discovery of an unrestricted portal into a major telecommunications company’s data network to Congress.
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    • August 19, 2014
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with Cynthia Lum

    Dr. Cynthia Lum is an Associate Professor at George Mason University and the director of the Center for Evidence-Based Crime Policy. She was formerly a Baltimore City police officer and detective, and an instructional professor at the U.S. State Department International Law Enforcement Academy.
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    • October 15, 2014
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with John Mueller and Mark G. Stewart

    John Mueller is a political scientist at Ohio State University and at the Cato Institute. He is the author, co-author, or editor of 18 books and hundreds of scholarly and popular articles, including two books with co-author Mark G. Stewart: : Terror, Security, and Money: Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security; and Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism.
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    • March 31, 2016
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with Arun Kundnani

    Arun Kundnani is the author of “The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, Extremism, and the Domestic War on Terror,” (Verso Books, 2014). Kundnani, an adjunct professor at New York University, has studied terrorism and the effects of counter-radicalization policies in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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    • October 7, 2014
  • Rethinking Intelligence: Interview with Jameel Jaffer

    Jameel Jaffer is the Deputy Legal Director of the American Civil Liberties Union and Director of its Center for Democracy, where he has litigated and managed cases involving government surveillance, targeted killings, and torture. He is the co-author of Administration of Torture: A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond (Columbia University Press, 2007).
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    • August 28, 2014