Professor at Washington College of Law at American University
Panelist

Kenneth Anderson is a professor at Washington College of Law at American University in Washington, D.C. He formerly served as general counsel for the Open Society Institute and as director of Human Rights Watch's Arms Division. Anderson has taught the laws of war at Columbia Law School and Harvard Law School, where he was the John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization, and also served as legal editor of Crimes of War (W.W. Norton, 1999).

In addition to writing widely in the area of international law, Anderson discusses culture and politics of international non-governmental organizations and micro-edit and development finance in scholarly journals as well as in the Times Literary Supplement (London). He has written for and is a member of the editorial advisory board of the Journal of Terrorism and Political Violence.

Professor at Georgetown University Law Center
Panelist

David Cole is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center and co-author with James X. Dempsey of Terrorism and the Constitution (The New Press). Cole is also a volunteer staff attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights where he has argued cases including Texas v. Johnson and National Endowment of the Arts v. Finley before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Cole has defended dozens of immigrants charged with being everything from "national security threats" to "advocates of world communism." He is a legal affairs correspondent for The Nation, a periodic commentator on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered," and author of No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Justice System (The New Press). He was recently named one of the nation's top 45 public sector lawyers under 45 by American Lawyer.

Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute
Moderator

Gara LaMarche is Vice President and Director of U.S. Programs for the Open Society Institute, a foundation established by philanthropist George Soros to promote open societies around the world. OSI's U.S. Programs deal with care of the dying, drug policy reform, crime and incarceration, fair treatment of immigrants, inner-city education and economic development, democratic reform, reproductive health and choice, and restoration of professional and public interest values in law, medicine and journalism.

Before coming to OSI in 1996, LaMarche served as Associate Director of Human Rights Watch and Director of its Free Expression Project (1990-1996), and Director of the Freedom-To-Write Program of PEN American Center (1988-90). From 1976 to 1988, he served in a variety of positions with the American Civil Liberties Union, including Associate Director of its New York branch (1979-84) and Executive Director of the Texas Civil Liberties Union (1984-88). In 1988-89, he was a Charles H. Revson Fellow on the Future of the City of New York.

LaMarche is the author of more than 75 articles on human rights and social justice issues, which have appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Newsday, The Nation, The American Prospect, The Texas Observer, and The Wharton Magazine, and is the editor of Speech and Equality: Do We Really Have to Choose? (New York University Press, 1996). LaMarche is adjunct professor at New School University and has also taught at The John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

LaMarche serves on the board of Article 19, the international free expression organization; as a member of the Sundance Documentary Fund Selection Committee; on the U.S. Advisory Committee for Index on Censorship, the London-based human rights magazine; and on the Advisory Committee for the Human Rights Watch Women's Rights Division.

A Westerly, R.I. native, LaMarche graduated from Columbia College in 1976, and lives in Brooklyn, New York.