Contact: Maggie McQuade
212.992.8640
mcquadem@juris.law.nyu.edu
NYU’s Center on Law and Security will present an open forum discussion on the influence of Saudi Arabia and Iran in regional issues-primarily in Iraq, Pakistan, and Israel-on Wed., Jan. 16, 6-7:30 p.m. at NYU School of Law’s Lipton Hall, 108 W. 3rd Street (between MacDougal and Sullivan Streets). Subways: A, B, C, D, E, F, V (West 4th Street). The event is free and open to the public, which may RSVP to cls@juris.law.nyu.edu. For more information, call 212.992.8854.
The forum will also examine Sharia law as an arena in which various power relations are constituted. Participants are the following: Vali Nasr, professor of international politics at the Fletcher School of Diplomacy, Tufts University and author of The Shia Revival; Toby Craig Jones, professor of history, Rutgers University; and Karen Greenberg (moderator), executive director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law.
To make a press reservation, please contact Maggie McQuade at 212.992.8640 or mcquadem@juris.law.nyu.edu.
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.