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Twenty-Five Years After September 11, 2001: Display Boards, Natasha Nandlal Varyani

Institute for Race and the Law

These slides are quotes by the contributors to the book “Twenty-Five Years After September 11, 2001: A Collection of Personal Narratives from the Day and What Followed, edited by Professor Natasha Nandlal Varyani, Director of the Institute for Race and the Law. The slides were displayed at the program “September 11th: 25 Years After, Remembrance, Reflection & Community,” held at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on Friday, September 11, 2026. The Roger Williams University Institute for Race and the Law, the Boston Bar Association, and the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston co-sponsored this program. The book …

Twenty-Five Years After September 11, 2001: A Collection Of Personal Narratives From The Day And What Followed, Natasha Nandlal Varyani

Institute for Race and the Law

This book is a collection of personal reflections on 9/11, edited by Professor Natasha Nandlal Varyani, Director of the Institute for Race and the Law, printed and distributed at the program “September 11th: 25 Years After, Remembrance, Reflection & Community,” held at the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse on Friday, September 11, 2026. The Roger Williams University Institute for Race and the Law, the Boston Bar Association, and the South Asian Bar Association of Greater Boston co-sponsored this program. A collection of quotes from the contributors is also available in the collection.

Governance And Islam In East Africa: Muslims And The State In Kenya And Tanzania, Farouk Topan, Kai Kresse, Erin E. Stiles, Hassan Mwakimako

Exploring Muslim Contexts

Explores the relationship between Muslim communities and the State in East Africa in political, institutional and legal contexts

• Focuses on the relationship between Muslims and the State in Kenya and Tanzania
• Asks which factors, both within and outside the Muslim community, shape and affect this relationship in contemporary times
• Presents 13 case studies exploring governance issues within and across the categories of politics, institutions and law in Kenya and Tanzania
• Identifies cross-cutting issues of governance and Muslim communities which are relevant beyond East Africa

Recent studies of Muslims in Kenya and Tanzania have tended either to examine governance of Muslims …

The Right To Privacy And Data Protection In Times Of Armed Conflict, Asaf Lubin, Russell Buchan

Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty

Contemporary warfare yields a profound impact on the rights to privacy and data protection. Technological advances in the fields of electronic surveillance, predictive algorithms, big data analytics, user-generated evidence, artificial intelligence, cloud storage, facial recognition, and cryptography are redefining the scope, nature, and contours of military operations. Yet, international humanitarian law offers very few, if any, lex specialis rules for the lawful processing, analysis, dissemination, and retention of personal information. This edited anthology offers a pioneering account of the current and potential future application of digital rights in armed conflict.

In Part I Mary Ellen O’Connell, Tal Mimran and Yuval …

The Culture Police: Manning The Barricades Of Allowable Art And Culture, Ramy Aly

Faculty Book Chapters

In this chapter I look at the history and ontology of censorship in Egypt from the Monarchical era to the present. I focus on the post-1952 era and how a tutelary state culture has been deployed as part of a broader cultural militarism. The chapter also covers the legislative architecture that has ensured a stranglehold on the part of syndicates and the creation of a broad range of crimes associated with art and culture production and exhibition.

Key Strategic Issues List (Ksil) 2021–2022, Steve Cunningham

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

New for Academic Years 2021-2022, the USAWC has published an updated Key Strategic Issues List (KSIL). The KSIL informs students, faculty, and external research associates of strategic topics requiring research and analysis. The USAWC in coordination with Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA), major commands throughout the Army, and the joint and interagency community has updated the Army's priorities for strategic analysis to address issues in the emerging strategic environment and to align with elements of the current Army Vision and Army Strategy. The USAWC will continue to address select topics as Integrated Research Projects and through other research efforts. …

Outplayed: Regaining Strategic Initiative In The Gray Zone, A Report Sponsored By The Army Capabilities Integration Center In Coordination With Joint Staff J-39/Strategic Multi-Layer Assessment Branch, Nathan P. Freier, Charles R. Burnett, William J. Cain Jr., Christopher D. Compton, Sean M. Hankard, Robert S. Hume, Gary R. Kramlich Ii, J. Matthew Lissner, Tobin A. Magsig, Daniel E. Mouton, Michael S. Muztafago, John F. Troxell, Dennis G. Wille, James M. Schultze

Books, Monographs & Collaborative Studies

U.S. competitors pursuing meaningful revision or rejection of the current U.S.-led status quo are employing a host of hybrid methods to advance and secure interests contrary to those of the United States. These challengers employ unique combinations of influence, intimidation, coercion, and aggression to incrementally crowd out effective resistance, establish local or regional advantage, and manipulate risk perceptions in their favor. So far, the United States has not come up with a coherent countervailing approach. It is in this “gray zone”—the awkward and uncomfortable space between traditional conceptions of war and peace—where the United States and its defense enterprise face …

Spying, Ronald Griffin

Faculty Books and Book Contributions

Ronald C. Griffin’s paper Spying, which is the third paper in the book Selected Issues in Modern Jurisprudence, edited by David A. Frenkel, begins with the finding in the Church Committee Report in the USA. It spotlights Edward Snowden’s disclosure about the NSA, reviews pertinent laws about spying and parades some suggestions and recommendation to curb government excesses.

The Nseers Effect: A Decade Of Racial Profiling, Fear, And Secrecy, Penn State Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic, Rights Working Group

Center for Immigrants' Rights Clinic Publications

n the wake of the tragic attacks of September 11, 2011, the landscape of immigration law and policy in the United States changed dramatically as the government scrambled to create counterterrorism programs to respond to potential national security threats. One program is the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) or "special registration" that was initiated by the Department of Justice in 2002 and inherited by the Department of Homeland Security in 2003. NSEERS served as a tool that allowed the government to systematically target Arabs, Middle Easterners, Muslims, and South Asians from designated countries for advanced scrutiny. ...The purpose of …

Efficiency In Bello And Ad Bellum: Making The Use Of Force Too Easy?, Kenneth Anderson

Contributions to Books

This article criticizes a widely asserted claim that drones make the resort to force and violence — war — “too easy.” Attractive on the surface to many, this article says that “too easy” is not a coherent notion as applied in war. The “too easy” argument comes in two forms, a moral argument and a maximization of social welfare argument. The maximization of social welfare version (on which the article focuses) frames “too easy” as a matter of creating an “inefficient” level of disincentive to use of force on account of insufficient risks to one’s own forces in so doing …

Naval Investigative Service Case File, Bern Porter

Security Files

A collection of documents on investigations of Bern Porter conducted in the 1950s and 60s

Fbi Letter To Bern Porter, Bern Porter

Security Files

A letter regarding a delay in the processing of Bern Porter's Freedom of Information-Privacy Acts request to the FBI.

Naval Investigative Service File On Bern Porter, Bern Porter

Security Files

A collection of all the Naval Investigative Service's records pertaining to Porter.

U.S. Department Of Justice Letter, Bern Porter

Security Files

A letter advising Bern Porter that more information is needed in order to process his request for Department of Justice records.

Privacy Act Requests, Bern Porter

Security Files

Official letters acknowledging Bern Porter's Privacy Acts request and providing information about their release.

Internal Revenue Service Letters, Bern Porter

Security Files

Letters acknowledging the receipt of Bern Porter's request for his records from the IRS.

U.S. Government Letters To Bern Porter, Bern Porter

Security Files

Letters from the U.S. Congress, the FBI, and the CIA acknowledging receipt of Bern Porter's requests for personal records.

Internal Revenue Service Letter, Bern Porter

Security Files

A response to Bern Porter from the Department of the Treasury stating they have no intelligence records pertaining to him.

Department Of The Air Force Letter, Bern Porter

Security Files

A letter from the Air Force advising Bern Porter on the status of his request for records.

Letter To The Air Force, Bern Porter

Security Files

A letter from Bern Porter requesting additional records to those he had already received.

Department Of The Air Force Letters, Bern Porter

Security Files

Letters pertaining to Bern Porter's request for intelligence documents from the Air Force.

Bern Porter's Request For Records, Bern Porter

Security Files

A collection of correspondence related to Bern Porter's request for records from several government agencies, plus a 1968 report of a psychiatric exam of Porter.

Defense Department Case File, Bern Porter

Security Files

Reports documenting Bern Porter's mental health while he was employed at Boeing in 1967.

Personnel Security Pledge And Name Check Information Release, Bern Porter

Security Files

A form indicating which national agencies had records mentioning Bern Porter.

Department Of State Report, Bern Porter

Security Files

A declassified report on a background check of Bern Porter, with details on Porter's personality and habits during his time in Guam in the early 1950s.

U.S. Civil Service Commission Report (February, 1967), Bern Porter

Security Files

A report on the dismissal of allegations of mail fraud made by Bern Porter against "other persons."

U.S. Civil Service Commission Transmittal Of Report Of Full Field Investigation, Bern Porter

Security Files

A summary report stating that while Bern Porter is "to say the least, extremely eccentric," there is no reason to doubt his loyalty to the United States.

United States Civil Service Commission Report Of Investigation, Bern Porter

Security Files

Testimony from two witnesses, a former landlord and a former neighbor -- both in Maine -- describing their impressions of Bern Porter during the time they were acquainted with him, both characterizing him as a decent tenant nand neighbor but questioning his apparent unemployment and tendency to take pictures around town.

U.S. Civil Service Committion Report Of Investigation, Bern Porter

Security Files

Documents reporting on investigations of Bern Porter during his time at Boeing in the middle to late 1960s, with testimony from coworkers and acquaintances.

United States Civil Service Commission Report Of Investigation, Bern Porter

Security Files

Testimony on Bern Porter from a former acquaintance.