Location & Lodging

"Who Decides About War?" will take place on the campus of the Georgetown Law School. Registration will run from 4:00 to 8:00pm on Friday, October 2nd, and from 8:00am to Noon of Saturday, October 3rd, in McDonough Hall, located at the corner of First and New Jersey. On Friday, registration will take place in the Atrium East outside of room 200. On Saturday, registration will occur in Atrium West outside room 205. For directions, please click here.

The Georgetown Law School campus is located in downtown Washington D.C. near Union Station. Please note that this means that the campus is not located in Georgetown, itself, but instead, at the Georgetown Law School, several miles away. We look forward to seeing you there!

Lodging information

NEW UPDATE: A limited number of rooms are now available at significantly reduced rates at a historic boutique hotel located close to the Georgetown Law School campus. Henley Park front entryway We are happy to inform you that the Henley Park Hotel ($129/night for single/double; $179/night for a suite) is offering a limited block of rooms for your conference lodging needs. Call today and have them book you under the special rate for "Who Decides About War?

Henley Park Hotel: 800-222-8474

If you don't wish to wait to make your reservation at this charming hotel, you might want to go ahead and obtain a room through any number of useful discount hotel websites. We recommend looking at the following sites: www.Kayak.com, www.Priceline.com, www.Orbitz.com, and www.Hotwire.com. Each of these sites works differently, and each provide their room discounts in different ways. If you would like to reserve a room close to the conference site, you will want to be sure the hotel is located in the Capitol Hill, Downtown, Chinatown, or White House areas.

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Georgetown Law School, October 2-3, 2009

We the People This engaging event gathered activists and academics, public officials and veterans, lawyers and military families. We used facilitated discussions, panel presentations, and workshops to accomplish two goals. First, to educate ourselves and each other about the issues involved, the state of the law, and alternatives. Second, to develop a statement of common principles leading to a more democratic, comprehensive, and durable national defense policy — one that will honor the Constitution and help keep the United States from entering into unnecessary wars.

For more information on the topics addressed at this conference, please see our background and the full schedule.

Please Contribute

Please contribute to help defray our organizing costs. Thank you very much!

Conveners

Convened by the national campaign to Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law and the Liberty Tree Foundation, with hosts National Lawyers Guild at Georgetown Law School, and in coordination with Veterans for Peace, Military Families Speak Out, Democrats.com, and Institute for Policy Studies, as well as After Downing Street, CODEPINK, Iraq Veterans Against the War, National Coalition for Nonviolent Resistance, Peace Action USA, and Progressive Democrats of America.

Lead sponsors of "Guard Home" legislation include Rep. Fisher (VT) together with Sen. Davis (AK), Rep. Garballey (MA), Sen. Raskin (MD), Sen. Madaleno (MD), Rep. Hornstein (MN), Sen. Dibble (MN), Rep. Weed (NH), Rep. Begaye (NM), Sen. Cisneros (NM), Sen. Perkins (NY), Sen. Adams (NY), Rep. Shields (OR), Sen. Ferlo (PA), Rep. Cohen (PA), Rep. Segal (RI), Rep. Black (WI), Sen. Erpenbach (WI).

Background

This engaging event will bring together activists and academics, public officials and veterans, lawyers and military families. We will use facilitated discussions, panel presentations, and workshops to accomplish two goals. First, to educate ourselves and each other about the issues involved, the state of the law, and alternatives. Second, to develop a statement of common principles leading to a more democratic, comprehensive, and durable national defense policy — one that will honor the Constitution and help keep the United States from entering into unnecessary wars.

The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have revived and deepened longstanding questions about how and by whom war and peace should be decided under our Constitution and in faith with our democratic aspirations . . .

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