Closing Plenary: Preventing Torture in the Fight against Terrorism
Journal: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Year: 2015

As this is our closing plenary for our 2015 annual meeting, I thought it would be appropriate for me to open it and to say a few words.First of all, it is a tradition at our annual meeting to reserve a place or two for the late-breaking events, or the "hot topics."Last year, you will remember, we were racing to put together a panel on Crimea a day or two after the annexation had happened, and this year as the very most intensive phase of the preparations for the annual meeting were taking place,