• Pound Hall, Room 102, Harvard Law School (map)
  • 1563 Massachusetts Ave
  • Cambridge, MA, 02138
  • United States

Photo credit: Amir Yalon, “Supreme Court Bridge,” Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0 license.

Event

On March 30, PILAC will host a book talk on Judicial Review of National Security (Oxford, 2014) by Dr. David Scharia, a Senior Legal Officer and the Coordinator of the Legal and Criminal Justice Group at the United Nations Security Council’s Counter Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED). Alongside a short presentation by Dr. Scharia, Harvard Law School Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law Noah Feldman will act as a discussant. HLS PILAC Director Naz K. Modirzadeh will moderate the discussion. 

In his book, Dr. Scharia explains how the Supreme Court of Israel developed unconventional judicial review tools and practices that allowed it to provide judicial guidance to the Executive in real-time. In this book, Dr. Scharia argues that courts could play a much more dominant role in reviewing national security and demonstrates the importance of intensive, real-time, inter-branch dialogue with the Executive, as a tool used by the Israeli Court to provide such review. This book aims to show that if one Supreme Court was able to provide rigorous judicial review of national security in real-time, then we should reconsider the conventional wisdom regarding the limits of judicial review of national security. 

Live Webcast

This event was webcast live. A video recording will be made publicly available in the coming days. 

Date and time

Monday, March 30, 2015 from noon to 1:00 p.m.

Location

Pound Hall, Room 102, Harvard Law School [map - link].

This event is free and open to the public; seating will be provided on a first-come, first-serve basis.

Lunch will be provided.