Jennifer Van Bergen is an author, activist and educator currently teaching in Prague this fall semester 2008. She is a lecturer in law at the Anglo-American University in Prague, www.aauni.edu, and also teaches English at Charles University in Prague. Previously, she taught English and writing at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville, Florida. Professionally, she's also a journalist, legal analyst and non-practicing attorney who has written, spoken out against and debated widely on Patriot Act injustice and other civil liberties issues.
Van Bergen is a former faculty member of the New School for Social Research in NYC, starting there in 1993 and teaching their first course for undergraduates on Antiterrorism Laws and the Constitution.
She was one of the first voices to raise the alarm against the Patriot Act with her six-part series "Repeal the Patriot Act." Van Bergen first broke stories about Bush's signing statements in September of 2005. She has since written several articles on the underlying unitary executive doctrine, including "The Unitary Executive: Is the Doctrine Behind the Bush Presidency Consistent with a Democratic State?"
Van Bergen is author of The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America. She can discuss civil liberties, human rights, international law, Patriot Act, legislations to ban Muslim charities, Geneva Conventions, President Bush’s use of the Signing Statement in particular with the National Defense Authorization Act 2008 that asserts his alleged power to keep control over Iraq oil and establish a permanent US presence in Iraq. Her articles and commentaries can be read at http://jvbline.org.
Biography
Jennifer Van Bergen is an author, activist and educator currently teaching in Prague this fall semester 2008. She is a lecturer in law at the Anglo-American University in Prague,