In his newest book, War by Other Means: An Insider’s Account of the War on Terror (Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006), AEI visiting scholar John Yoo describes how the Bush administration grappled with the legal questions brought about by the events of September 11 and the early days of the War on Terror. Were the remains of the World Trade Center a crime scene or a battlefield? Until this question could be answered, the president’s legal authority to act was unclear.

Mr. Yoo’s presentation will be followed by a discussion of the legal framework of the War on Terror with Jeffrey Rosen of the George Washington University Law School and The New Republic, and Kenneth W. Starr, dean of Pepperdine University School of Law. Gary Schmitt, a resident scholar and director of AEI’s Program on Advanced Strategic Studies, will moderate.