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Panelists discussed many of the issues on which national debate has been promoted by litigation and public education from the American Civil Liberties Union. Topics included national securit…

Vijay Padmanabhan and others talked about the Guantanamo Bay detention center. Mr. Padmanabhan was formerly an attorney-adviser in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of S…

Flora Jessop, a former fundamentalist Latter Day Saints member, took part in a forum on three books about abuse in religious communities. Her book, Church of Lies (Jossey-Bass; January 8, 20…

Justices from the European Court and the U.S. Supreme Court discussed the work of their respective courts as well as the issues of federal power over states. They explored ways in which thes…

Robert Bennett, a legal counsel to President Bill Clinton (D) spoke about how the adversarial process influences the ethics and morality of court officers. Among the issues he discussed were…

Justice Stephen Breyer and several academics discussed the legal aspects of building a global civil society. Their discussion focused on the ability of international organizations to make an…

David Gelernter discussed his book “Machine Beauty: Elegance and the Heart of Technology” and the relationship between art, technology, and religion.

Panelists discussed Mr. Schlink’s novel The Reader, a fictional account of an illiterate girl in Nazi Germany who learns to read while a guard in a concentration camp. The panel used the boo…

The heads of the National Urban League, the World Jewish Congress, and the NAACP talked about where blacks and Jews were getting along, where they are not, and why. After their prepared rema…

Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Yeshiva University during their 70th annual Hanukkah Convocation. In his remarks, he focused on Republican persp…

After receiving an honorary degree from Yeshiva University, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S Army General Colin Powell spoke at the 68th annual Hanukkah dinner on U.S. foreign poli…