May 16, 2013 | The National Press Club
The University of Pennsylvania Law School hosted a high-level panel examining the critical legal and policy questions associated with drone warfare. Experts will explore the tension between national defense and counterterrorism goals and American commitment to checks and balances and the rule of law.
The moderator was Michael A. Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law at Penn Law.
The speakers included Mark Mazzetti, Intelligence Correspondent, New York Times and author, The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth; Claire Finkelstein, Professor of Law and Philosophy, Director for the Center for Ethics & Rule of Law, Penn Law and co-author, Targeted Killings: Law and Morality in an Asymmetrical World; and Peter W. Singer, Senior Fellow and Director at the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, Brookings Institution.