Conference to Address Constitutional Implications of Responses to Germ Warfare and Contagious Disease -- Secretary Chertoff to Keynote

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Conference to Address Constitutional Implications of Responses to Germ Warfare and Contagious Disease -- Secretary Chertoff to Keynote

Contact: Corey Owens, Communications Director, The Constitution Project, 202-580-6922, cowens@constitutionproject.org; Amy Poftak, Assistant Director of Communications, Stanford Law School, 650-725-7516 Poftak@law.stanford.edu

WASHINGTON, April 2 /Standard Newswire/ -- The Constitution Project and the Stanford Constitutional Law Center will co-sponsor a conference on the legal implications of government responses to naturally occurring epidemics and terrorist use of biological weapons. A panel discussion with top legal, scientific, and counterterrorism experts will address whether certain responses to a major epidemic or biowarfare incident - such as forced inoculation, isolation, and quarantines - will result in legal challenges, and what responses are consistent with the principles of the U.S. Constitution. The panel will be followed by a keynote address delivered by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.

Event Details ---

Who:

Opening Remarks (1:30 pm): Margaret Hamburg, Senior Scientist, Nuclear Threat Initiative

Panel Moderator: Kathleen Sullivan, Director, Stanford Constitutional Law Center

Panelists: Christopher Chyba, Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and International Affairs, Princeton University; Martin Cetron, Director, Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Richard Clarke, National Security Council (1992-2003); Michael Greenberger, Director of the Center for Health and Homeland Security, University of Maryland; Pamela Karlan, Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School; Jeff Runge, Chief Medical Officer and Assistant Secretary, Department of Homeland Security; Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford Law School

Keynote Speaker (3:30 pm): The Hon. Michael Chertoff, Secretary, Department of Homeland Security

What: Conference on "Germ Warfare, Contagious Disease, and the Constitution"

Where: 50 Dirksen Senate Office Building

When: 1:30 - 4:30 pm, Friday, April 11, 2008

Members of the press should RSVP by contacting Corey Owens, Communications Director, The Constitution Project, or Amy Poftak, Assistant Director of Communications, Stanford Law School.