Undercover Policing and Emerging Enforcement Powers: Perspectives from Two Sides of the Atlantic

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Conference sessions will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. on March 11, 2005, and 8:30 a.m. to noon on March 12, 2005.

March 11, 2005

  • an introductory lecture by Professor Emeritus Gary Marx (MIT, Sociology)
  • a luncheon address by Professor Cyrille Fijnaut (International and Comparative Law, University of Tilburg; and Criminology and Criminal Law, University of Leuven)
  • an author-meets-readers session devoted to Mathieu Deflem's Policing World Society: Historical Foundations of International Police Cooperation (Oxford University Press, 2003)
  • three panels (each with several papers, commentators, and audience questions)
  • a panel discussion, led by Professor Gary Marx, on the methodology of researching covert policing

March 12, 2005

  • a roundtable discussion, led by Carney Chair Peter Maggs (University of Illinois College of Law) about undercover policing in Eastern Europe, featuring Russian and Ukrainian scholars: Victor Egorshin, Colonel and Chair of the Undercover Operative Service Department, St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Interior; Sergey Nazarov, Lieutenant Colonel and Chair of the Operative Service Department, Vladimir Juridical Institute of the Ministry of Justice; Igor Shinkarenko, Deputy Rector, Law Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine; Dmitriy Ziborov, Major of the Vladimir Juridical Institute of the Ministry of Justice; Vladimir Sergevnin, Director of Illinois Police Corps or Western Illinois University; and Artem Galuchek, Major of the Ukrainian Militia and Adjunct of the Undercover Operations Department

Panelists

The following scholars will address the themes of the conference from a variety of perspectives:

  • Professor Hans-Jörg Albrecht, Director, Criminological Research Unit, Max-Planck Institut für ausländisches und internationales Strafrecht, will discuss telecommunications surveillance and wiretaps in Germany
  • Professor Kim Lane Scheppele (University of Pennsylvania, Comparative Law and Sociology) will explore German legal and political responses to the 9/11 attacks
  • Professor Salvatore Palidda (University of Genoa, Sociology) will explore legal and political responses of Italy and France to the 9/11 attacks
  • Professor Mathieu Deflem (University of South Carolina, Sociology) will discuss undercover counter-terrorism policing in Israel
  • Professor Andreas Glaeser (University of Chicago, Sociology) will suggest the potential dangers of undercover policing through a case study of the East German State Security force (Stasi)
  • Professor Paul Dubinsky (New York Law School) will explore the European Court of Human Rights' treatment of undercover policing
  • Professor Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law) will examine the regulation of German covert policing, based on field interviews with German undercover agents, police supervisors, prosecutors, and judges

Commentators

  • Professor Bernard Harcourt, University of Chicago Law School
  • Professor Albert Alschuler, University of Chicago Law School
  • Professor Christopher Slobogin, University of Florida School of Law
  • Professor David Cunningham, Brandeis University, Sociology
  • Professor Richard McAdams; University of Illinois College of Law
  • Professor Andrew Leipold; University of Illinois College of Law
  • Professor Anna-Maria Marshall; University of Illinois, Sociology
  • Professor Stephen Thaman, St. Louis University Law School