Bobby Chesney

Professor of Law

Phone: 336.758.5723
Email: robert.chesney@wfu.edu

Presentations

Organizer and moderator of panel discussion reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, as part of the annual national security law conference sponsored by the Center on Law, Ethics, and National Security at Duke University (April 10, 2008)
Faculty sponsor and host for Wake Forest Law Review’s 2008 symposium addressing terrorism financing and the law (April 4, 2008)
“The Convergence of Criminal and Military Detention,” presented to the Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Staff Judge Advocate’s Conference (MacDill Airbase, Tampa, FL) (Feb. 6, 2008)
Participant in panel addressing reform of military detention procedures, part of the conference “Terrorists and Detainees: Do We Need a New National Security Court?” co-sponsored by the Brookings Institute and American University’s Washington College of Law (Feb. 2, 2008)
“Supreme Court Preview: Boumediene v. Bush,” presented to the Forsyth County Inns of Court (Jan. 28, 2008)
Participant in panel at the National Press Club addressing reform of the state secrets privilege, sponsored by the Constitution Project (Jan. 24, 2008) (transcript here)
“The Domestic Role of the U.S. Military,” organizer and moderator of panel presentation for the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools (“AALS”), at the AALS Annual Meeting in New York (January 2008)
“Litigating Rendition,” presented at a symposium sponsored by the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation (November 2007)
Participant in panel addressing extraordinary rendition, at the annual “Review of the Field” conference sponsored by the American Bar Association’s Standing Committee on Law and National Security (November 2007)
“Terrorism and the Law,” presented at a symposium sponsored by the Roger Williams Law Review (November 2007)
Guest lecturer discussing enemy combatant litigation, Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, VA (October 2007)
“The Convergence of Military and Criminal Detention Models,” presented as part of the Distinguished Lecture Series sponsored by the Human Rights and National Security Law Program at William & Mary (Marshall-Wythe School of Law) (October 2007)
Participant in National Security Law Colloquium sponsored by the National Security Forum at William Mitchell College of Law (September 2007)
“The Combatant-Civilian Distinction: A Comparative Analysis of Sharia and International Humanitarian Law,” presented at a conference at West Point sponsored by the Law of Armed Conflict Center (September 2007)
“Current Developments in Guantanamo Detainee Litigation,” organized and moderated panel presentation at the annual meeting of the Southeast Association of American Law Schools (Aug. 2, 2007)
“Terrorism Prosecution Statistics,” presented at Lewis & Clark in connection with a conference titled “Crimes, War Crimes, and the War on Terror (April 20, 2007)
“Interrogating Terrorists: Probing the Limits,” moderated (and assembled) a panel concerning interrogation techniques in connection with a conference titled “Confronting Terrorism Here and Abroad: Which Way Forward?” at Duke University School of Law (April 13, 2007)
“Terrorism and the Law,” presented at Case School of Law in connection with a conference titled “Sacred Violence: Religiously-Based Terrorism and the Uses and Limits of Government Intervention” (March 30, 2007) (my portion begins at the 20:50 mark)
“The Military Commissions Act of 2006: Outstanding Legal Issues,” panel presentation at Duke University School of Law (February 12, 2007) (video here)
“Enemy Combatants and the Law: A Survey of the Latest Developments in Litigation and Legislation,” presented (by live video link) to the Law of War course at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (Feb. 2, 2007)
Inspection tour of Guantanamo Bay (January 23, 2007) (invited by Defense Department General Counsel)
“Scholarship and the New Law Professor: Of Blogs, Books, Networks, and the Placement Game,” panel presentation organized on behalf of the AALS Section on New Law Professors at the AALS annual meeting (January 5, 2007) (audio here) (moderator/convenor)
“Congressional Power and the Military Commissions Act of 2006: Stripping Jurisdiction and Precluding Consideration of Geneva Convention Claims,” panel presentation organized on a “hot topics” theme at the AALS annual meeting (January 5, 2007) (moderator/convenor)
“The Military Commissions Act of 2006: The Litigation Ahead,” presented at the Air Force Judge Advocate General’s annual conference (October 2006)
“The Impact of the Military and State Secrets Doctrine on Terrorism-Related Litigation,” presented at George Washington University Law School (October 2006)
“Anticipatory Prosecution and the Challenge of Unaffiliated Terrorism,” faculty workshop at the University of Iowa College of Law (September 2006)
“Anticipatory Prosecution and the Challenge of Unaffiliated Terrorism,” presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Southeast Association of American Law Schools (July 2006)
“Hamdan v. Rumsfeld and al Odah v. Bush: An Overview,” presentation to the National Security Studies program at Syracuse University (April 25, 2006)
“Judicial Deference to Executive Branch Treaty Interpretations,” faculty workshop at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Law (April 21, 2006)
“The Impact of the Detainee Treatment Act on GTMO Habeas Litigation,” faculty colloquium presentation at the University of Richmond School of Law (February 28, 2006)
“Detainee Status Law,” presentation for graduate students at the Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School, Charlottesville, VA (Jan. 12, 2006)
“Disaggregating American Exceptionalism,” presentation given for the Section on International Law, Association of American Law Schools 2006 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC (Jan. 6, 2006)
“Judicial Deference to Executive Treaty Interpretations,” presentation at the annual workshop of the International Law in Domestic Courts Interest Group of the American Society of International Law, at Vanderbilt University School of Law (Dec. 13, 2005)
Moderator, “Beyond Article II Courts: Military Tribunals, Status Review Tribunals, and Immigration Courts,” Symposium: Secret Evidence and the Courts in the Age of National Security, Cardozo School of Law (Dec. 5, 2005)
Inspection tour of Guantanamo Bay (September 2005) (invited by Office of Military Commisssions)
“Leaving Guantànamo,” presented to the Law of War course at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General Legal Center and School (July 15, 2005)
"GTMO Transfer Litigation," presented at the Law & Society Annual Meeting (June 4, 2005)
"The Changing Legal Architecture of National Security," presented to the NORAD-USNORTHCOM 2005 Staff Judge Advocate's Conference (April 19, 2005)
"Law of Armed Conflict and Salient Distinctions Among the Guantanamo Detainees," presented to the National Security Studies program at Syracuse University (April 12, 2005)
"Prosecution Patterns in the War on Terrorism, 2001-2003," presented at "Strategies for the War on Terrorism: Taking Stock," a conference sponsored by Duke University School of Law's Center for Law, Ethics, and National Security (April 8, 2005)
“Terrorism Prosecutions Since 9/11,” presented at the 2004 Jim Wright Symposium: Conflict and the Politics of Fear, sponsored by Texas Christian University (Oct. 15, 2004)
“Antiterrorism Prosecutions and the Demands of Prevention,” presented at the South East Association of American Law Schools’ Annual Meeting at Kiawah Island (Aug. 2004)
“Detention of Terrorists and the Rule of Law,” presented to the National Security Studies program at Syracuse University (March 30, 2004)
“Antiterrorism Prosecutions and the Demands of Prevention in Post-9/11 America,” presented at a conference of terrorism law experts from America, Spain, Italy, and Columbia hosted by Florida International University (March 12, 2004)
“Before the Alien & Sedition Acts: Washington and the Democratic-Republican Societies,” presented during “Law, Loyalty, and Treason,” a symposium sponsored by the University of North Carolina Law Review (October 2003)

Testimony

Senate Judiciary Committee, “Examining the State Secrets Privilege: Preserving National Security While Protecting Accountability” (Feb. 13, 2008)
Oral testimony before the Commission of Inquiry into the Bombing of Air India 182 (Canada) (November 26, 2007) (available at http://www.cpac.ca/forms/index.asp?dsp=template&act=view3&pagetype=vod&lang=e&clipID=521 (click “next” twice).
Written testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding “Oversight Hearing: Aiding Terrorists – An Examination of the Material Support Statute” (May 5, 2004) (available at http://judiciary.senate.gov/testimony.cfm?id=1172&wit_id=3394)
Expert witness declaration concerning the legislative history of statute imposing civil liability on those who provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations, cited with approval in Weiss v. National Westminster Bank, 242 F.R.D. 33 (E.D.N.Y. 2007) and Strauss v. Credit Lyonnais, S.A., __ F.R.D. __, 2007 WL 1558567, No. 06-cv-702 (E.D.N.Y. May 25, 2007)