Symposium Panel To Explore New Book's Mediation on War Time
By Maria Iacobo
USC Law will hold a symposium entitled War * Time, An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences, on Friday, January 27, 1:00 p.m – 5:30 p.m. at the Musik Law Building. The symposium launches a new book by Prof. Mary Dudziak, the Judge Edward J. and Ruey L. Guirado Professor of Law, History and Political Science. The symposium is open to the USC community.
The book, War * Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences (Oxford University Press; February 9) is an inventive meditation on war, time and the laws we enact during “wartime.” Publishers Weekly says the book is “closely argued and clearly written, this is a scholarly work with popular appeal.” Symposium presenters include: Lynn A. Hunt from UCLA; Elaine Tyler May from the University of Minnesota and Mark Tushnet from Havard Law School.
The recent war in Iraq and the war on terror are given considerable attention in the book which argues that America is not living in a moment of exception; national security will always be an ongoing concern.
“How do we want American democracy to work now?” asks Prof. Dudziak. “We can’t suspend our democratic processes because we think that, at some point, we’ll come back to peace time. If we’re going to have rights and constraints on presidential powers, they have to happen in the kind of time that we have now.”
Dudziak is a legal historian whose research focuses on international approaches to legal history in the 20th century and the impact of war on American democracy. She has written extensively about the impact of foreign affairs on civil rights policy during the Cold War and about other topics in 20th century American legal history.
If you would like to attend the symposium, please RSVP to: [email protected]
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