Professor to discuss Miranda rights for terrorists at Aurora University

On Monday, Sept. 20, Amos Guiora, professor of law at the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law, will discuss "Should Miranda Protections be Extended to Suspected Terrorists?" at Aurora University.

The public is invited to the free presentation at 1:15 p.m. in the Perry Theatre in the Aurora Foundation Center, 1305 Kenilworth Place in Aurora. The sponsor is AU's Wackerlin Center for Faith and Action.

Guiora will explore whether Miranda rights should be extended to suspected terrorists, or if the public safety exception applies to counter terrorism.

He writes and lectures extensively on legal aspects of counterterrorism, international law, terror financing, morality in armed conflict, religion and terrorism, domestic terror courts, self-defense and geopolitics.

Guiora has testified before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on handling terrorism detainees within the American justice system, and before a subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security on the effectiveness, accountability and resilience in homeland security.

Guiora is a committee member of the, ABA Law and National Security advisory committee; a research fellow at the International Institute on Counter-Terrorism, the Interdisciplinary Center, Herzeliya, Israel; and a corresponding member of the Netherlands School of Human Rights Research, University of Utrecht School of Law. He was awarded a senior specialist Fulbright Fellowship for the Netherlands in 2008.

Reservations are requested. Call (630) 844-6864 or e-mail cta@aurora.edu.