invites you to a luncheon briefing: 

“Guantanamo: The rule of law or the law of ever changing rules?”

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 featuring:

 Nancy Hollander
Criminal Defense Lawyer 
Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Ives & Duncan P.A 

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In her discussion about Guantanamo Bay, internationally renowned criminal defense lawyer Nancy Hollander will provide an update on the pending military commission cases, pending habeas cases, and the continuing flexibility of the rules that apply in those cases.

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Nancy Hollander is an internationally recognized criminal defense lawyer from the Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA firm of Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg Ives & Duncan P.A. Her practice is largely devoted to criminal cases, including those involving national security issues. She has also been counsel in numerous civil cases, forfeitures and administrative hearings, and has argued and won a case involving religious freedom in the United States Supreme Court. Ms. Hollander also served as a consultant to the defense in a high profile terrorism case in Ireland, has assisted counsel in other international cases and represents two prisoners at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base. She has been accepted as a lead counsel for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon.

Ms. Hollander has taught in numerous trial practice programs and at national and international seminars on various subjects including the securing of evidence in international cases, forfeiture, illegal search and seizure, expert witnesses, defense of child abuse cases, ethics, evidence, and trial practice. She has written extensively on these and other criminal law topics. She has coordinated and taught training courses for criminal defense lawyers wishing to appear before the ICC and the ICTY, was the coordinator of a jury trial training project in Russia and has served as a consultant to the United Nations Development Programme in Vietnam.

In 2001, Ms. Hollander was named as one of America’s top fifty women litigators by the National Law Journal. She is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, the National Directory of Criminal Lawyers, and the International Who’s Who of Business Crime Lawyers. She received the Professional Lawyer of the Year Award from the New Mexico Trial Lawyers Foundation in 2006. In 2007, she was highlighted in Superlawyers, top twenty-five New Mexico lawyers. She was chosen as Best Lawyers’ 2010 Albuquerque Criminal Defense: Non-White-Collar Lawyer of the Year and Best Lawyers’2011 Albuquerque Criminal Defense: White-Collar Lawyer of the Year.

Ms. Hollander is an international member of Perren Buildings Chambers, London, which is comprised of individual criminal defense practitioners who practice independently, and are subject to professional regulation as individuals in their respective jurisdictions. www.perrenbuildings.com .

She is co-author of WestGroup's Everytrial Criminal Defense Resource Book, Wharton’s Criminal Evidence, 15th Edition, and Wharton’s Criminal Procedure, 14th Edition. She has appeared on such national television programs as PBS Now, Burden of Proof, the Today Show, Oprah Winfrey, CourtTV, and the MacNeill/Lehrer News Hour.

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Tuesday, February 14, 2012

1:00pm - ICC 241 (CCAS Boardroom)

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Seating is limited.

Lunch will be served.

For a map showing the location of the ICC building, please visit: http://maps.georgetown.edu/interculturalcenter/

For more information, please visit: http://acmcu.georgetown.edu