I believe Easter is God's gift to humanity of victory over death, hopelessness and frailty, and I believe that God is
alive and in our midst. This Easter, it's the witness of the Guantanamo lawyers that is confirming me in those
beliefs.
I've written a lot before about the example of people like Andy Worthington, Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, and the makers of
the Guantanamo film "The Response." Today I want to name the lawyers who contributed to a book by Mark P. Denbeaux
and Jonathan Hafetz called
"The Guantanamo Lawyers".
|
The Guantanamo Lawyers:
Inside a Prison, Outside the Law
edited by Mark P. Denbeaux
and Jonathan Hafetz |
As I heard Jonathan explain on Friday night at an event here in Chicago sponsored jointly by
Barbara's Bookstore and
Revolution Books, "The Guantanamo Lawyers" represents the witness of the lawyers who stepped up
and took action to defend Guantanamo detainees (and, by extension, the system of law, due process, and governance from
which we all benefit). The book records for posterity those lawyers' accounts of just what has happened in the
American system of detention in the past ten years.
I have taken the liberty of reproducing the honor roll of Guantanamo lawyers below. To learn more,
read the
book.
There are over a hundred names on this list of people who have taken action in the name of life, hope, and strength.
What are
you prepared to do?
The Guantanamo Lawyers
Stephen E.
Abraham
Muneer I. Ahmad
Baher Azmy
Jessica Baen
Scott Barker
Amal Bouhabib
Yvonne R.
Bradley
David Brahms
Patricia A.
Bronte
Charles H.
Carpenter
Anne Castle
John A.
Chandler
Christopher Chang
Christi
Charpentier
George M. Clarke
III
Jerry Cohen
Joshua
Colangelo-Bryan
John Connolly
Brant S.
Copeland
Cori Crider
Maya D. Curtis
David J. Cynamon
George Daly
Matthew Darby
Jeffrey M. Davis
Joshua W.
Denbeaux
Mark P.
Denbeaux
Adam Deutsch
Rebecca Dick
J. Wells Dixon
Bernhard Docke
Joshua L. Dratel
Buz Eisenberg
Marc D. Falkoff
Mark C. Fleming
Murray Fogler
Tina Monshipour
Foster
David Frakt
Eric M. Freeman
Agnieszka
Fryszman
Fjohn J. Gibbons
Elizabeth Gilson
H. Candace Gorman
Eldon V.C.
Greenberg
Richard Grigg
David Grossman
Jonathan Hafetz
Masud Hasnain
Sarah H. Havens
Melissa Hoffer
John Robert
Holland
Anna Cayton
Holland-Edwards
Jonathan
Horowitz
Susan Hu
Jayne C.
Huckerby
Gaillard T. Hunt
AzizHuq
Krisine A. Huskey
Gary A. Isaac
Geremy Kamens
Ramzi Kassem
Jan K. Kitchel
Denny LeBoeuf
Allison M. Lefrak
Sarah H. Lorr
Ellen Lubell
Trip
Mackintosh
Hanna F. Madbak
Emi MacLean
Howard J.
Manchel
David Marshall
Julia Tarver Mason
David McColgin
Joe McMillan
George Brent Mickum
VI
Michael D. Mori
Sahr
Muhammedally
Mark Muoio
Donna R. Newman
Mari Newman
Jim Nickovich
Shawn Nolan
Matthew O'Hara
Andrew G. Patel
Chuck
Patterson
Wesley R. Powell
Andrea J. Prasow
Jana Ramsey
Michael D. Ratner
Anant Raut
David H. Remes
Margaret L.
Satterthwaite
John Sifton
Amrit Singh
Marjorie M. Smith
Kent Spriggs
Clive Stafford
Jeffrey M.
Strauss
Dwight
Sullivan
Thomas P.
Sullivan
Alan Sussman
Doris Tennant
Hannah Tennant-
Moore
Steven M. Watt
Carolyn M.
Welshhans
P. Sabin Willett
Thomas B. Wilner
Elizabeth Wilson
Mark Wilson
Richard Wilson
Paul M. Winke
Ben Wizner
Gordon S.
Woodward
Yasmin
Zainulbhai
Stephen
E. Abraham is an associate of Fink &
Abraham LLP in Newport Beach, CA.
Muneer I.
Ahmad is a clinical professor of law at Yale
Law School.
Baher Azmy
is a professor of law at Seton Hall
University School of Law in Newark, NJ.
Jessica
Baen has worked as a paralegal with the
Guantanamo Global Justice Initiative at the Center for Constitutional Rights since 2006.
Scott
Barker is a 1970 Air Force Academy graduate who
served on active duty for eight years before resigning his commission to pursue a career as a trial lawyer in Denver,
CO.
Amal
Bouhabib was a member of the International
Justice Clinic at Fordham Law School in New York, NY.
Lt. Col.
Yvonne R. Bradley a twenty-plus-year member
of the U. S. Air Force and U.S. Air Force Reserve, was appointed in November 2005 as a military defense counsel to
represent Binyam Mohamed in the military commissions at Guantanamo.
Brigadier
General David Brahms USMC (ret.)has a
private practice in Carlsbad, CA.
Patricia
A. Bronte practices civil rights law at
Stowell & Friedman, Ltd. in Chicago. She is a former partner of Jenner & Block LLP.
Charles H. Carpenter is a partner at Pepper
Hamilton LLP in Washington, DC.
Anne
Castle has practiced law in Colorado for
twenty-seven years, specializing in water law, and is involved in several organizations whose goal is to provide legal
assistance to people who cannot afford to pay.
John A.
Chandler is a partner at King &
Spalding LLP.
Christopher Chang is a Guantanamo Team Investigator at
the UK-based legal action charity Reprieve.
Christi Charpentier works in the Federal
Community Defender Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
George M. Clarke III is a partner with Miller
& Chevalier chartered in Washington, DC.
Jerry
Cohen is a partner at Burns & Levinson LLP
in Boston, MA.
Joshua Colangelo-Bryan is a senior attorney
at Dorsey & Whitney in New York, NY.
John
Connolly is a member of Murphy & Shaffer
LLC, a small law firm in Baltimore, MD.
Brant
S. Copeland is the pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, Tallahassee, FL.
Cori
Crider is a staff attorney for Reprieve.
Maya D.
Curtis currently manages her own immigration
law firm, May Curtis Law LLC, and represented over fifteen prisoners in Guantanamo while working for Jenner &
Block.
David J.
Cynamon is a partner in the Washington, DC,
office of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.
George Daly
is a retired civil rights lawyer in
Charlotte, NC.
Matthew
Darby is currently practicing criminal law in
Houston, TX.
Jeffrey M.
Davis has a private practice in Charlotte,
NC.
Joshua
W. Denbeaux is a partner at the firm of
Denbeaux & Denbeaux.
Mark
P. Denbeaux is a professor of law at Seton
Hall Law School and director of the Center for Policy and Research. He is also of counsel to the firm Denbeaux &
Denbeaux.
Adam
Deutsch is a research fellow with Seton Hall
Law School's Center for Policy and Research.
Rebecca
Dick formerly in private practice, is now a
staff attorney at the Federal Trade Commission.
J. Wells
Dixon is a senior staff attorney at the
Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, NY.
Bernhard
Docke is currently a partner at Dr. Heinrich
Hannover & Partner, Bremen, Germany.
Joshua L.
Dratel is an attorney and founder of Joshua
L. Dratel PC in New York, NY.
Buz
Eisenberg is of counsel to Weinberg &
Garber.
Marc D.
Falkoff is a professor at Northern Illinois
University College of Law in DeKalb, IL.
Mark C.
Fleming is a partner at WilmerHale in
Boston, MA.
Murray
Fogler is a trial lawyer and partner with
Beck, Redden & Secrest in Houston, TX.
Tina
Monshipour Foster is the Executive Director of
the International Justice Network.
David
Frakt is a lawyer for the Air Force Reserve and
a professor at Western State University College of Law in Fullerton, CA.
Eric M.
Freeman is the Maurice A. Deane
Distinguished Professor of Constitutional Law at Hofstra Law School.
Agnieszka Fryszman is a partner at Cohen Milstein
Sellers & Toll; she represents four men who have been detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay.
Fjohn J.
Gibbons is the founder of the John J.
Gibbons Fellowship in Public Interest and Constitutional Law at Gibbons PC in Newark, NJ, and a director at the firm.
He is the former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Elizabeth
Gilson is a sole practitioner in New Haven,
CT, concentrating on environmental law.
H.
Candace Gorman is a solo-practitioner in Chicago,
IL, who concentrates in civil rights and human rights law.
Eldon
V.C. Greenberg is a partner at Garvey
Schubert Barer In Washington, DC.
Richard
Grigg is a partner at Spivey & Grigg in
Austin, TX.
David
Grossman is a staff attorney with the ABA
Death Penalty Representation Project.
Jonathan
Hafetz is an attorney with the National
Security Project of the American Civil Liberties Union and has litigated numerous post-9/11 detention cases.
Masud
Hasnain is an Arabic interpreter and
translator for lawyers at Guantanamo and lives in Virginia.
Sarah H.
Havens is an associate at Allen & Overy
in New York, NY.
Melissa
Hoffer is Vice President of the Conservation
Law Foundation. She represented Guantanamo detianees while a junior partner at WilmerHale.
John
Robert Holland and
Anna Cayton Holland-Edwards are a father and
daughter practicing together. Erica Grossman is also a member of the firm and involved in the firm's Guantanamo
cases.
Jonathan Horowitz is Research Director of One World
Research in New York, NY.
Susan Hu
is a law student at New York University School
of Law. She worked at the Center for Constitutional Rights as a paralegal on the Guantanamo Global Justice
Inititative from 2006-2008.
Jayne
C. Huckerby is Research Director of the
Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Clinical Law at New York University Law
School.
Gaillard T.
Hunt has a private practice in Silver
Spring, MD.
Aziz Huq
is an assistant professor of law at the
University of Chicago Law School.
Krisine
A. Huskey is a clinical professor and co-
director of the National Security Clinic at the University of Texas School of Law.
Gary A.
Isaac is Counsel at the Chicago office of
Mayer Brown.
Geremy
Kamens is First Assistant Federal Public
Defender for the Eastern District of Virginia.
Ramzi
Kassem is Lecturer in Law at Yale Law
School.
Jan K.
Kitchel is a partner at Schwabe, Williamson
& Wyatt in Portland, OR.
Denny
LeBoeuf is the director of the John Adams
Project of the American Civil Liberties Union providing attorneys and resources in defense of Guantanamo capital
cases.
Allison
M. Lefrak is an associate at Reed Smith in
Washington, DC.
Sarah H.
Lorr is a student at Fordham Law School in New
York, NY.
Ellen
Lubell is a principal of the firm Tennant
Lubell LLC in Newton, MA.
Trip
Mackintosh currently practices in the areas
of white-collar criminal defense and export controls compliance and defense in Denver, CO.
Hanna F.
Madbak is an associate at Baker Hostetler in
New York, NY.
Emi
MacLean was a staff attorney at the Center for
Constitutional Rights from 2006 to 2009.
Howard
J. Manchel is a partner at Manchel, Wiggns,
Kaye LLP.
David
Marshall has a private practice in Seattle,
WA.
Julia
Tarver Mason is a partner at Paul, Weiss,
Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in New York, NY.
David
McColgin is a Supervisory Assistant Federal
Defender in charge of the Appeals Unit for the Federal Community Defender Office in Philadelphia, PA.
Joe
McMillan is a partner at Perkins Coie in
Seattle, WA.
George
Brent Mickum VI is a partner at Spriggs
& Hollingsworth in Washington, DC.
MajorMichael D. Mori U.S. Marine Corps, served as
military defense counsel for Guantanamo detainee David Hicks.
Sahr Muhammedally is a senior associate in the
Law and Security Program at Human Rights First.
Mark Muoio
received his J.D. from Seton Hall
University School of Law School in 2009 and has been a fellow at the Center for Policy and Research since 2007.
Donna R.
Newman is a partner at Buttermore Newman
Delanney & Foltz in New York, NY.
Mari
Newman is a partner at Killmer, Lane &
Newman LLP in Denver, where she practices civil rights and employment law.
Jim
Nickovich practices law in San Francisco,
CA.
Shawn
Nolan works in the Federal Community Defender
Office for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Matthew
O'Hara is a partner of Reed Smith LLP in
Chicago, IL.
Andrew G.
Patel has a private practice in New York,
NY.
Chuck
Patterson is a partner at Morrison &
Foerster in Los Angeles, CA.
Wesley R.
Powell is a partner at Hunton &
Williams in New York City.
Andrea J.
Prasow is a defense attorney in the Office
of the Chief Defense Counsel, Office of Military Commissions.
Jana
Ramsey is an associate at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton and Garrison LLP.
Michael
D. Ratner is an attorney and the president of
the Center for Constitutional Rights. With CCR he is the author of "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld: A Prosecution by
Book."
Anant Raut
is Counsel to the Committee on the Judiciary
of the United States House of Representatives. He formerly represented Guantanamo detainees while an associate at
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
David H.
Remes is Legal Director of Appeal for
Justice, a nonprofit human rights and civil liberties litigation firm. Before founding Appeal for Justice in 2008, he
was a partner at Covington & Burling LLP in Washington, DC.
Margaret L. Satterthwaite is Faculty Director
of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice and Associate Professor of Clinical Law at New York University
School of Law.
John
Sifton is an attorney, private investigator, and
writer. He has worked for Human Rghts Watch and One World Research.
Amrit
Singh is a staff attorney at the Immigrants'
Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. She is coauthor (with Jameel Jaffer) of "Administration of
Torture, A Documentary Record from Washington to Abu Ghraib and Beyond."
Marjorie
M. Smith has her own practice in Piermont,
NY, where she specializes in federal criminal appeals and habeas corpus.
Kent
Spriggs is the practitioner of Spriggs Law Firm
in Tallahassee, FL.
Clive
Stafford is Founder and Director of Reprieve
in London, England.
Jeffrey
M. Strauss has practiced law at Mayer Brown
in Chicago for 28 years, focusing on complex litigation and corporate transactions. He has also been involved in pro
bono work on behalf of Guantanamo detainees.
ColonelDwight Sullivan United States Marine Corps
Reserve, served as Chief Defense Counsel in the Office of Military Commissions from 2005 to 2007.
Thomas
P. Sullivan is a partner at Jenner Block in
Chicago, IL.
Alan
Sussman was a partner in the law firm Ricken,
Goldman, Sussman & Blythe, Kingston, NY, and is currently an adjunct professor at Bard College.
Doris
Tennant is an attorney of Tennant Lubell LLC
in Newton, MA.
Hannah Tennant-Moore is an award-winning
freelance writer who has covered the Guantanamo litigation extensively.
Steven M.
Watt is a senior staff attorney with the
Human Rights Program of the American Civil Liberties Union.
Carolyn M. Welshhans represented prisoners at
Guantanamo while employed at Dechert LLP.
P. Sabin
Willett is a partner at Bingham McCutchen
in Boston, MA.
Thomas B.
Wilner is of counsel at Shearman &
Sterling LLP in Washington, DC.
Elizabeth Wilson is Assistant Professor of Human
Rights Law at the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University.
Mark
Wilson is Senior Trial Counsel at the Federal
Community Defender for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Richard
Wilson is a professor of law and Director of
the International Human rights Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law in Washington, DC.
Paul M.
Winke is a counsel of WilmerHale in New York,
NY.
Ben
Wizner has been a staff attorney at the American
Civil Liberties Union since 2001.
Gordon
S. Woodward is a partner with the law firm
of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP.
Yasmin Zainulbhai is a student at Fordham Law
School in New York, NY.
Related posts
The defense team for the Guantanamo detainee Fayiz al Kandari
was in Kuwait this week, publicizing the case and encouraging people
there to demand that the United States government release the two
Kuwaitis held at Guantanamo.
(See
People in Kuwait Raising Their Voices Against Guantanamo )
My most prominent memory of my first viewing of the Guantanamo film,
The Response, is of one of the stars of the film -- Kate
Mulgrew of Star Trek fame -- participating in a panel after the
screening. I was blown away when she said, "I did this because our
civil liberties in our country have been gravely damaged and we all need
to contribute to repairing them."
(See
Understanding What Guantanamo Means)
What would Christians think if someone proposed carving out a slice of
their Sunday services to worship the God of Entombment? Wouldn't they
think that was absurd? After all, if Christianity is anything, isn't it
the religion of "UN-entombment"?
(See
When is Christianity Going Back to Being the Religion of "UN-entombment"?)
Sometimes it feels like people who are concerned about Guantanamo are a handful of voices in the wilderness. Then there are moments when a lot of people get pulled into the conversation. "Law Day" -- sponsored nationwide by the American Bar Association (ABA) and implemented by state bar associations in each state -- is an example of the latter.
(See
Guantanamo - What Would John Adams Say? )