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CIAO DATE: 09/2008

PolicyWatch #1316: Special Forum Report: Libel, Terrorism, and the Assault on Academic Freedom

Judith Miller, Ruth Wedgwood

December 2007

The Washington Institute for Near East Policy

Abstract

On November 15, 2007, The Washington Institute held a Policy Forum with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Judith Miller and Ruth Wedgwood, the Edward B. Burling professor of international law and diplomacy and director of the International Law and Organizations Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. The following is a rapporteur's summary of their remarks.