/24-7PressRelease/ - NEW YORK, NY, October 10, 2007 - The course will first compare Jewish and American law on aiding-and-abetting and then analyze the application of the aiding-and-abetting principles to the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1990. The case of David Boim—which the Lewins initiated and which recently resulted in a very significant jury verdict - claimed damages fro the killing of a 17-year-old American citizen in Israel by Hamas terrorists. The verdict represents the first time U.S. based charities have been held civilly liable for aiding-and-abetting terror and is now an important precedent for post 9/11 lawsuits.
IAT Law primarily provides entertaining CLE seminars for attorneys; however, this program can be useful for all those with an eye on the challenges facing the United States in the post-9/11 world. This seminar will educate people on how the law is being used to fight terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda, Hezbollah and Hamas from Nathan Lewin, one of this field's pioneers.
Nathan Lewin, who has engaged in trial and appellate litigation in federal and state courts for 40 years. While he was an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the Department of Justice under Solicitors General Archibald Cox and Thurgood Marshall, he argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court for the United States. Since entering private practice he has argued in the Supreme Court another 15 times, for a total of 27 arguments in the Supreme Court. His Supreme Court cases have included the representation of banks and other commercial interests as well as criminal cases and issues of constitutional law. Mr. Lewin was law clerk to Chief Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1960-1961) and to Associate Justice John M. Harlan of the Supreme Court of the United States (1961-1962). Mr. Lewin also served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, and before that as Deputy Administrator of the Bureau of Security and Consular Affairs at the Department of State. On leaving government service, Mr. Lewin was a founding partner of Miller Cassidy Larroca and Lewin, which was one of the nation's foremost litigation "boutiques" for more than thirty years.
Mr. Lewin's individual clients have included Attorney General Edwin Meese III in an Independent Counsel investigation; former President Richard Nixon in the Supreme Court case testing the constitutionality of the taking of Presidential papers and tapes; actress Jodie Foster in the prosecution of John Hinckley; performer John Lennon in the successful appeal of his immigration case; Barnett Bank to establish in the Supreme Court the right to sell discounted trademark merchandise; and national Jewish organizations on religious liberty issues. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since its first editions in the areas of Criminal Defense, Business Litigation, and First Amendment Law, and was included in "Washington's Best 75 Lawyers" in the April 2002 Washingtonian magazine.
The seminar will be followed by a complimentary buffet dinner. Special group rates and rates for non-attorneys are available.
For more Information please contact: (212)-986-1114 or (888) 937-5060
About IAT Law
The Institute of American and Talmudic Law (IAT LAW) seeks to analyze contemporary legal issues from the perspective of American jurisprudence and Talmudic law.
The Talmudic legal system has a 3,300 year old history which remains vibrant and is still applicable to the latest cultural, economic, and technological trends. There are many areas of potential cross pollination that have heretofore been unavailable or inaccessible to the contemporary legal community.
The goal of the Institute is to make these resources available through live continuing legal education seminars, an interactive website and an extensive audio and CD library. The Institute will cover a wide range of legal topics and issues from both the American and Talmudic legal perspectives.
The Talmud is a composite of in depth legal analyses of practical law, logical argumentation and moral teachings. Its laws and ethics have served as a cornerstone of humanity's civil and moral infrastructure while shaping its legal-judicial systems. These courses will compare and contrast legal reasoning and adaptation between Talmudic and American law.
IAT Law is sponsored by Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown Manhattan and NYLAG.
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