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NYCLA's Foreign and International Law Committee Presents Law and Terrorism Series April 2008 Visit us at www.nycla.org Volume 4 / Number 3 NYCLA’s Foreign and International Law INSIDE BOOK-SIGNING Committee presents Law and Terrorism Series - RECEPTION for Belva Lockwood: The Libel Terrorism: Woman Who Would The Intersection of British Be President Libel Law and the First Amendment On Thursday, April 17, NYCLA’s Foreign and International Law Committee is presenting a program, “Libel Terrorism: The Intersection of British Libel Law and the First Amendment,” at the offices of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP at Four 3 Times Square from 6:00-8:05 PM featuring a distinguished panel of experts: Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld, an author who was sued for libel by a Saudi-Arabian billionaire whom she accused of supporting ter- MESSAGE FROM rorism; Samuel A. Abady, a civil liberties and criminal defense attorney; Floyd Abrams, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel THE PRESIDENT LLP; Daniel J. Kornstein, a founding partner at Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard, LLP and Dr. Ehrenfeld’s lawyer; Hon. Rory I. Libel Tourism and the War on Terror Catherine A. Christian Lancman, New York State Assemblyman, 25th Assembly District In 2004, Dr. Ehrenfeld, Director of the New York-based in Queens; Dean Ringel, a partner at Cahill Gordon & Reindel American Center for Democracy and Center for the Study of LLP; and Hon. Dean G. Skelos, New York State Senator, 9th Corruption & the Rule of Law, was sued for libel in London’s High ADVOCATING EQUALITY… Assembly District in Nassau County and Senate Deputy Majority Court of Justice by Khalid bin Mahfouz, a banker to the Saudi royal CREATING OPPORTUNITIES Leader. The moderator is Nicholas Rostow, University Counsel family. Dr. Ehrenfeld had accused Mr. Mahfouz of supporting al- and Vice Chancellor for Legal Affairs, SUNY and chair of Qaeda and other Islamic terrorist groups prior to September 11, NYCLA’S SUMMER NYCLA’s Foreign and International Law Committee. Attorneys 2001 in her book, Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed – and MINORITY JUDICIAL attending the program may earn 2.5 MCLE credits: 1 Ethics; 1.5 How to Stop It (2003). In filing the lawsuit in the United Kingdom, INTERNSHIP PROGRAM Professional Practice. The registration fee: Non-attorneys and Mr. Mahfouz joined a surge of other wealthy, nonresidents of Arabic attorneys without MCLE Credit: Free; Members (with 2.5 MCLE descent who have sought punitive damages for alleged defamation credits): $30; Non-members (with 2.5 MCLE credits): $55. after being accused of funding terrorist activities. 5 Unlike the U.S., which ruled in New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) that public figures who sue media defendants must show that defamatory statements were “made with actual malice,” the ANNUAL MEETING U.K. is among the scores of countries that do not provide such extensive safeguards for freedom of speech. NOTICE “England’s libel laws favor the individual’s rights over the public. They allow bin Mahfouz and other terror financiers, known as ‘libel 6 tourists,’ to veil in secrecy their funding of al Qaeda, other Islamic terror organizations and global propagation of radical Islam. British laws earned the U.K. the label—‘libel capital of the Western world’— MEMBER PROFILE and rained wealth on Britain’s libel bar.” Mae Watson Grote - Rachel Ehrenfeld Subsequently, after losing the libel judgment to Mr. Mahfouz, Dr. Ehrenfeld filed a suit, Ehrenfeld v. Mahfouz (2006) in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In June 2007, the Court dismissed the case for lack of personal jurisdiction and declined to address whether subject matter jurisdiction existed. The Court ruled that New York State courts should decide whether the state’s long-arm statute confers jurisdiction against Mr. Mahfouz. In 6 December 2007, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that New York law does not confer jurisdiction because Mr. Mahfouz has insufficient ties to New York for the courts to assert jurisdiction over him. This decision was affirmed in a related court case by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on March 3, 2008. Mr. Mahfouz has never sought to enforce his judgment in New York, where Dr. Ehrenfeld lives and has assets. According to SPOTLIGHT ON Thomas F. 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