Guantanamo's Legacy: Torture and the Law
April 18 | 5:30 pm | Kevorkian Center Library | RSVP Required, Register here
A conversation on Lisa Hajjar's new book, "The War in Court."
Guantanamo's Legacy: Torture and the Law
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Lisa Hajjar is a professor and chair of sociology at the University of California – Santa Barbara. Her work focuses mainly on issues relating to law and conflict, including military courts and occupations, torture, targeted killing, war crimes, and human rights. Her publications include Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza (University of California Press, 2005), Torture: A Sociology of Violence and Human Rights (Routledge 2013), and her new book, The War in Court: Inside the Long Fight against Torture (University of California Press, 2022). She is a founding co-editor of Jadaliyya and co-chair of the editorial committee of Middle East Report.
Baher Azmy has personally litigated cases related to discriminatory policing practices (stop and frisk), government surveillance, the rights of Guantánamo detainees, and accountability for victims of torture. In joining CCR, Baher took leave from his faculty position at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he taught Constitutional Law and directed the Civil Rights and Constitutional Litigation Clinic. While a Clinical Law Professor, he successfully represented Murat Kurnaz, a German resident of Turkish descent imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay, until his release in August 2006.
Margaret Satterthwaite is Professor of Clinical Law, Faculty Director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights, Faculty Director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice, and the Director of the Global Justice at NYU School of Law. Her research interests include legal empowerment, vicarious trauma and wellbeing among human rights workers, and interdisciplinary methods in human rights.
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