Week Three Revised from Original Syllabus

Monday, September 7th

• Listen to This American Life and email your teacher a reaction/post a comment on this blog

Wednesday, September 9th

• Watching selected scenes from Oscar winning documentary, Taxi to the Dark Side
• Read: http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/torture_and_false_confessions
• Read: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/13/AR2007121301303.html
• Read: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/opinion/06soufan.html

Friday, September 11th

• Discuss international law with respect to terrorism and American foreign policy reaction to events and aftermath of September 11, 2001
• Topics to consider
• United Nations Security Council and American invasion of and intervention in Afghanistan
• Outcome of War on Terror including enemy combatants and American imprisonment
• Discussion of Guantanamo Bay detainees and denial of habeas corpus rights based on foreign jurisdiction
• Discussion of Torture