Counterterrorism Expert Headlines ABA Law and National Security Event

WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2011 — Daniel Benjamin, ambassador-at-large and coordinator for Counterterrorism at the U.S. Department of State, will address the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security, May 19, 8 – 9 a.m., at the University Club in Washington, D.C.  The title of his speech is “Counterterrorism in a Time of Transition.”

Prior to his 2009 appointment to his current position, Benjamin was director of the Center on the United States and Europe, and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution (December 2006 – May 2009). He spent six years as a senior fellow in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Before entering the government, Benjamin was a foreign correspondent for TIME Magazine and the Wall Street Journal.

Benjamin has co-written two books: The Age of Sacred Terror (2002), which documents the rise of religiously motivated terrorism and American efforts to combat it; and The Next Attack: The Failure of the War on Terror and a Strategy for Getting it Right (2005). He holds degrees from Harvard and Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar.

Who
Daniel Benjamin
Ambassador-at-Large, Coordinator for Counterterrorism, U.S. Department of State

What
Standing Committee on Law and National Security Breakfast Program
Sponsored by the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security

When
May 19
8 – 9 a.m.

Where
University Club
1135 16th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C.

For media credentialing, please contact Alexandra Buller at Alexandra.Buller@Americanbar.org. There is no charge for media to attend this event.

With nearly 400,000 members, the American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional membership organization in the world.  As the national voice of the legal profession, the ABA works to improve the administration of justice, promotes programs that assist lawyers and judges in their work, accredits law schools, provides continuing legal education, and works to build public understanding around the world of the importance of the rule of law.

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