The University of New Mexico

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Media Contact: Laurie Mellas, 277-5915

Sept. 26, 2006

UNM Virtual Teach-In, Panel Discussion Focus on Guantanamo Bay
More than 200 schools across U.S. participating

The University of New Mexico will join with more than 200 schools in 44 states to participate in “Guantánamo: How Should We Respond?” – an unprecedented collaborative effort of academia, journalism, religion, medicine and the military in exploring the government's detention policy and practices in the “war on terror.”

UNM's School of Law, UNM Peace Studies and a coalition of student organizations will co-sponsor the "virtual teach-in" Thursday, Oct. 5, from 8 a .m. to 5 p.m. in rm. 2401 at the law school.

Seton Hall Law School in New Jersey is hosting the event live with a panel of constitutional and military lawyers, law professors, policy makers and others.

Participating schools will tune in through the Ethernet.  Students, faculty and staff are welcome to attend, as is the greater community.

UNM will host a live panel at 3 p.m., co-sponsored by Peace Studies, the International Law Students Association, the UNM Student Bar Association and the UNM student chapters of the ACLU and Federalist Society. 

“The panel will provide our community with the opportunity to look at the human, policy and legal impacts of the war on terror, and to explore legal and political reforms,” said UNM Professor of Law and Peace Studies Director Jenny Moore.

For more information about the teach-in, visit http://lawschool.unm.edu/ or http://law.shu.edu/guantanamoteachin/ .

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