CCR Senior Staff Attorney Katherine Gallagher will speak at a symposium at Michigan State University College of Law on the responses of the legal system to U.S. torture. The event will feature Manfred Nowak, former U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment alongside many others.

To learn more about CCR's work on Torture, War Crimes & Militarism visit our issue page here. For more information about the event, click here.

Panel #1: Effects of Torture on Victims, Perpetrators, and Involved Professionals: Dr. Allen Keller (physician specializing in treating torture victims), Joshua Phillips (journalist & author of book on torture’s effects on perpetrators), Ronald Meister (attorney representing military nurse who refused to force feed), and Dr. Stephen Soldz (psychologist leading opposition to American Psychological Association connivance in torture)

Panel #2: Legal System Responses to U.S. Torture: Professor David Luban, Georgetown Law; Professor David Bosco, American University (International Politics); Professor Ronald Slye, Seattle University School of Law; and Katherine Gallagher, Senor Staff Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights

The event is co-sponsored by the Michigan Psychological Association and the Michigan Psychological Association Foundation