Echoes from the Past: Do the post WWII Japanese War Crimes Tribunals have lessons for Guantanamo?

A Conversation with

Journalist
Carol Rosenberg 

and

Author
Michel Paradis 

on his new book

LAST MISSION TO TOKYO: THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE DOOLITTLE RAIDERS AND THEIR FINAL FIGHT FOR JUSTICE

Carol Rosenberg 
Senior Journalist, New York Times in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center

Michel Paradis 
Senior attorney in the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commissions Defense Organization and CNS Fellow

Thursday, October 1st, 12:30PM 

*Watch on C-SPAN


Michel Paradis is a leading human rights lawyer and national security law scholar. He has won high-profile cases around the globe, including some of the landmark cases to arise out of Guantanamo Bay for the U.S. Department of Defense, Military Commission Defense Organization. He is a Lecturer at Columbia Law School, where he teaches courses on national security law, international law, and the constitution and a fellow at the Center on National Security. He has appeared on or written for CBS, MSNBC, CNBC, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Lawfare, Just Security, among other publications. He was awarded his doctorate from Oxford University, where he was a Campion Scholar, and received his law degree from Fordham Law School in New York. 

 Listen to Michel Paradis on the CNS Vital Interests Podcast 

Carol Rosenberg is a senior reporter for the New York Times in collaboration with the Pulitzer Center. Rosenberg has been reporting on the U.S. base and prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba since 2002 for the Miami Herald. In 2019, thanks to a unique collaboration between The New York Times and the Pulitzer Center, she joined the Times to continue reporting from Guantánamo. She joined the Miami Herald staff in 1990 as Middle East correspondent. Her Guantánamo coverage has received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award and the ABA Silver Gavel among other honors. She was also part of a Herald team that won the Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News coverage in 2001.

 Listen to Carol Rosenberg on the CNS Vital Interests Podcast