New York University’s Center on Law and Security will host “Today’s Terrorist Threat: An Assessment,” on Thurs., Sept. 20, at NYU’s Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street (between Sullivan and MacDougal Streets). The event is free and open to the public. Please call 212.992.8854 or email cls@juris.law.nyu.edu for more information. This panel discussion features prominent national security and counterterrorism experts as well as Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer-Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
- WHAT: “Today’s Terrorist Threat: An Assessment”
- WHO: Rand Beers, president, National Security Network, and former National Security Council staffer for counterterrorism; Michael A. Sheehan, former deputy commissioner for counterterrorism, NYPD, and Lawrence Wright, Pulitzer- Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11.
- WHEN: Thurs., Sept. 20, 6 p.m.
- WHERE: NYU’s Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street. (betw. MacDougal and Sullivan Sts.) [Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street)]
EDITOR’S NOTE The Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law is a bipartisan research and policy institute that is committed to examining the legal dimensions of counterterrorism and national security in the age of terror. The Center brings together national and international experts including policymakers, law enforcement officials, legal scholars, journalists, and others in an arena that generates local, national, and international awareness of security issues.