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Join a CWRU STUDENT PANEL for a program featuring
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Raymond Ku, J.D. |
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William C. Snyder, J.D. |
The social contract upon which the United States government is based obliges the government to protect its citizens,and this may restrict certain of their liberties. Thus, a balance must be struck between the government’s duty to provide protection and a person’s right to privacy.
Pressure to eliminate the digital privacy of individuals is increasing. From the FBI’s efforts to decrypt the iPhone of the December 2015 San Bernardino mass shooter to Carpenter v. US (2017), the debate on privacy versus public safety needs to be addressed. How can the federal government strike a balance between privacy and public safety? What, if any, restrictions should be placed on the government when accessing private data during the course of a criminal investigation?
The Constitution Day Student Committee is pleased to welcome Raymond Ku, J.D. and William C. Snyder, J.D. to discuss these critical questions related to the Fourth and Fifth Amendments.
Raymond Ku, J.D., is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. After graduating cum laude from New York University School of Law, Professor Ku practiced constitutional, intellectual property, and antitrust law with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP, and First Amendment/media and intellectual property law with Levine Pierson Sullivan & Koch, L.L.P. Now an internationally recognized scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Georgetown, Minnesota, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin among others, and he is the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law.
William C. Snyder, J.D., is a Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law. He received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Cornell Law School. At Syracuse University College of Law, Professor Snyder teaches on topics related to Administrative Law, Federal Criminal Law, Computer Crimes, Counter-Terrorism and the Law, Prosecuting Terrorists in Article III Courts, and Cyber Security Law & Policy. Additionally, he assists at the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism.
Program planned by the 2018 CWRU
Constitution Day Student Committee:
Parker Glotfelty, Jacqueline Kett (Co-chair), David McGrath,
Abigail Moss, Timothy O'Shea (Secretary), Amanda Spangler (Co-chair)
Faculty Advisors: Sarah de Swart, William Doll, Andrew Lucker,
Laura Tartakoff, and Joe White
Sponsored by the Office of the President,
Office of Government and Community Relations,
Department of Political Science,
Center for Policy Studies, and School of Law
A reception will follow at The Law School.