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Symposium Tomorrow: “The Constitutionality and Consequences of America’s Use of Drones and the NSA Spying Program”

Western State University’s Law Review is hosting a symposium tomorrow entitled, “The Constitutionality and Consequences of America’s Use of Drones and the NSA Spying Program.”  Dean at University of California–Irvine School of Law, Erwin Chemerinsky, will be the keynote speaker.  The symposium, moderated in part by Professor Ryan T. Williams, will also feature two distinguished panels. The first panel is on the lethal use and legality of unmanned aerial vehicles and, later, there will be a panel on the NSA surveillance programs.

The latter panel, on which this blog’s administrator, Professor William C. Snyder, will sit as a contributor, will analyze the current NSA surveillance programs through the lens of constitutional law, the proper scope of the public’s knowledge on NSA and other government surveillance programs, and the hot and ever-controversial issue of whether Edward Snowden is a patriot or a villain.

The symposium tomorrow, April 12, will run from approximately 8:30am until 5pm at Western State University College of Law.

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