CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
ANNUAL CONSTITUTION DAY PROGRAM
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2018
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.
MOOT COURTROOM
SCHOOL OF LAW
11075 EAST BOULEVARD
CLEVELAND, OHIO 44106-1769

ENCRYPTION: PRIVACY v. PUBLIC SAFETY

Join a CWRU STUDENT PANEL for a program featuring

	Avidan Cover, J.D. Professor of Law and Director, Institute for Global Security Law and Policy Case Western Reserve University School of Law
	Raymond Ku, J.D. Professor of Law and Director, Center for Cyberspace Law & Policy Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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.

Avidan Cover, J.D. is Professor of Law at the Case Western Reserve University School of Law and Director of the Institute for Global Security Law & Policy. Cover teaches in the Civil Rights and Human Rights Clinic in the Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center, where he supervises students representing clients in civil lawsuits primarily in the areas of civil rights, including freedom of speech, unlawful force, and housing discrimination as well as documenting human rights abuses. He also teaches courses in constitutional law, race and American law and international humanitarian law. Cover’s scholarship focuses on human rights, civil rights and national security law. He has appeared in numerous news media, including The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, CNN, MSNBC, CSPAN, FOX News and Court TV.

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.